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That argument doesn't work for me. That's DALPA spin.
Those six seats are critical because they are on the BIGGER airframes.
If it was putting 6 more seats on 50 or 70 seaters then that would be one thing, but this is allowing 26 more 76 seat airplanes.
26 additional 76 seat airplanes are now allowed under our scope clause.
It's far worse than that - ~10 of the newly allowed 76 seat CRJ900's were not yet delivered. By digging in we could have forced those airframes to be configured with 70 seats making that airframe much less economically viable - we ****ed some serious leverage away.