Originally Posted by FWAAA

Someone recently posted about these somewhere on the AA forum. Some of the 738s have those four middle seats blocked by a bolted-in table. If you subtract those four seats, the seat count is 150 - and the legal requirement is just three FAs, not the four. The flight attendant union recently posted a piece on their website where they contend that those four seats still count despite the table and thus, four FAs are required. Don't know if the FAA has weighed in.

I'm too lazy to search for the thread, but it was in the last 10 days or so.