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Apr 13, 2020, 8:44 am

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SoManyMiles-SoLittleTime

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Originally Posted by CALMSP

if there are no pax, there shouldn't be any need for FA's. CO use to run baggage charters to Mexico with bags in all the seats, but only pilots. No difference than a maintenance ferry or reposition flight.

If they put one pax on the plane, then you'd have to min staff based on amount of seats.

Correct, via federal aviation regulations, part 121 (schedule airlines), number 391:

(a) Except as specified in § 121.393 and § 121.394, each certificate holder must provide at least the following flight attendants on board each passenger-carrying airplane when passengers are on board [emphasis added]...

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