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Old Mar 13, 2015 | 3:31 pm
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Originally Posted by flyingnosh
What if UA were to decide to replace the TATL 757-200 aircraft with 787-8 aircraft? Suppose they were to reduce capacity to 757 levels by removing rows from the back, so that they could fly the aircraft with the same size crew as a 757. If labor cost were the same, how much more expensive would it be to fly a 787 instead of a 757?
Quite a bit. The 787-8 weighs about twice as much as the 757-200. Trip costs of course won't be 2x as much but even if 1.75x thats a lot of extra cost to make up if you aren't even regularly filling up a 757-200.
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