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Old Sep 5, 2014 | 1:05 pm
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Originally Posted by LAXative
I really need coffee before starting threads next time. Thanks for the clarification!

(And yes, those 4 hardblocked seats on AA 738s came to mind as I groggily typed the OP out.)
Don't feel bad - your post is nowhere near as clueless as one I remember reading (on another site) when the AA+US merger was announced, and an employee of US (I think it was an alleged pilot) who wrote something like "102 seats on an A321? There's no way that Parker and Kirby would fly just 102 seats when the US A321s have 180-something seats. In addition, why have 102 seats when you could fly with one fewer FA if you only had 100 seats?"

Of course, they were clueless because AA's plan for the 32Bs, with just 102 seats, was to staff them with six flight attendants, not the minimum of one per 50 seats. They were so unfamiliar with the concept of "service" on a transcon that they couldn't fathom flying with more than the FAA-minimum number of FAs.
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