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Old May 6, 2020 | 11:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Often1
The premise of this thread is that someone read a post on some other website in which some person said that something might happen. It's just another post with no factual basis whatsoever.

Even if carriers do implement some form of distancing for a short period of time, there is no reason to remove seats in order to do that and then restore those seats when this is over. Moreover, as pointed out, these distancing efforts do not even meet minimum guidelines so are just a sop to make people feel better about flying when the real answer is that they should not fly at all.
If the cost of removing, storing, and replacing seats is less than the cost of the fuel saved flying them around, then airlines will remove them. Given current fuel prices, that's unlikely.
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