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Old May 22, 2012, 10:08 am
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Originally Posted by dcline414
The FL config has 21 rows of Y. If they took out one row, that leaves 20 rows: 3 rows of EC and 17 rows of E-. They could make the pitch on the 17 E- seats 31" to match the rest of the fleet and make the pitch 34" for the three rows of EC. That would require 29", while they would have 30" from removing the row of Y.

That's the only way I can see this being a viable plane for DL to fly. I know plenty of tall ATL-based pax that avoid FL just for their horrible pitch.
The DL 717s are supposed to have 12F 15EC 83Y. No idea about pitch.
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