Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Delta management likes the first class seats. We can fly every aircraft in the fleet with more seats and take out first class. The feel they generate more revenue with first class then more overall seats in the aircraft. we have tried the one class flying several times at Delta and it never offset the lost revenue the big seats generate. If we get the airframes at the mainline I don't think they will add any seats.
I agree, with that, but it does not take off the pressure for management to force the issue in regards to DCI and our scope limits set out in Section 1 of the JPWA.
Because they can put seats in the jet they will want to raise the seat limit. It does not mean that they will in this jet, it just means that the 195 can then be flow with 88 seat in it. I know, I know if is over the max gross weight limit, but hey if they get the seats they want they will get the gross weight limit they want to. Suffice to say where we are in relation to seat scope, and aircraft size is a very slippery slope. These jets are not self limiting like the 50 seat and 70 seat jets are.
The E-series has a variant that can take 120 or so people 4000 miles. Now do we want that at DCI? I don't and that is exactly where it is going given our current trend vector.