Originally Posted by wavery83

Well at the end of the day LHR can impose an environmental policy on a carrier. If they want a 3rd runway they're gonna have to play hard ball - no matter how many notes are flashed at them. At 6ft 3 I'm not the biggest fan of squeezing people into an aluminium tube with a max capacity of 20 is taking the proverbial! They should have laughed at them when this config was proposed.

Originally Posted by wavery83

seems like a complete no brainer to me...as much as the A319 was different, it was a complete waste of valuable LHR capacity. For the sake of emissions, I hope LHR have imposed a strict policy on this whatever the value of the blank cheque.

I think there were about 20 people on my flight.