Originally Posted by
ijgordon
That would seem like a lot of FC seats for such a small plane, unless they think they can actually sell them. Who buys FC on such relatively short routes? Would probably be sold primarily to passengers connecting to international. My money is on 2 rows of 1x2 for 6 seats.
How will service work on these aircraft? I assume there are 2 FAs -- does one do the FC service while the other does Y solo, and then the FA goes to help in the back (thereby abandoning the FC Pax)? How does UA and DL do it?
abandoning? there's still no meal service on Eagle, and if that changed it would be cold plates at most anyway, six of them. we can surely rule out 9F, as AA has always been about maintaining seating density.
the interesting thing about the configurations page of the manufacturer is that with 6F, there need be no net loss of seats. AA could keep 70 seats and still have 6 in F, just at the cost of some cargo space for the bags. Instead of the 6-32-28 pictured, they could do 6-64.