Originally Posted by
Duckouttahere
The only way I see removing seats to increase legroom being good for Alaska are the ETOPS flights to Hawaii which need more fuel and weight savings to avoid the occasional diversion for additional fuel. The flipside of that is you are earning less revenue for those seats you take out of service and those seem to be pretty high revenue routes.
I disagree. The other reason (as I mentioned above) is to eliminate 1 FA at the cost of 7 seats.