Originally Posted by
spin88
This is ridiculous. No doubt it is what Kirby is thinking, but it is crazy talk. United can make people feel comfortable to start to fly again, and it can start to add more planes, allowing them to fly at 70% capacity and then get the number of passangers up, begain to restart the aviation system. Or they can scare the crud out of passengers so they will not fly, and then fly planes like was the case a month ago with 2-3-4 people on the plane.
Congress gave the industry $50B - to allow them to keep the system alive and not think on a flight by flight basis. United is back to being penny wise but pound foolish.
UA doesn't need to make anyone feel comfortable to sell seats. Every flight that I've been on in the last week has been full.
And, if you are to believe the news media, the biggest threat to humanity isn't a deadly new virus but global warming/climate change, and wasting fuel flying a much larger plane than needed just wastefully increases the carbon footprint of each pax. Throwing away fuel with no quantifiable benefit other than making people feel better is silly.