(and it's not anymore, since the MEC gave it away)
Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
I guess I might be missing the boat but who really cares about weights and why? Wouldn't seat count be all that matters? I guess you could say "well they could fly further" but then again that would just be a much a higher increase in cost with no increase in seat availability.
Why would Delta pilots care about weights?
Because thanks to an MEC that does not have a clue, they are losing routes faster than they can say the word
outsourcing.
MSP to SMF/RNO/SFO/PDX/SEA/LAX/SAN/ONT/PSP/LAS are will now all be possible with the E75, with no weight restrictions, year round, with every seat full.
Read that again, MSP pilots.
Those nice cushy daytrips are never going to grow in numbers to secondary cities now. Ever! If it's not enough for an Airbus, it will be outsourced.
How about SLC-ATL? No problem. MEM-LAX? It can do it. JFK-DEN. Currently mainline right? Think it
needs to be a mainline jet every day? Perhaps an Embraer will work better?
There are hundreds of more examples.