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Old Mar 25, 2020, 11:42 am
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lrdpenn
 
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Originally Posted by aztimm
Shortly after the merger, I remember flying on a few AA flights that had the middle seats blocked for elites. There was a tray covering the seat, so it would have been very difficult to seat a passenger there (you would have needed tools to take the tray out). This was in Oct 2014.
While the aisle/middles were “premium” (non MCE) seats this was to keep the 737s at 150 seats for crew staffing. Perhaps AA is thinking about “blocked seats” in this way again for staffing. I think it was adding MCE that created the strange arrangement.
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