Originally Posted by
YOWgary
If they were only reliably selling 170 seats a day, then a 78x can likely be put to more profitable use elsewhere, movie stars or no.
They ran it twice a day with 7M8s in the summer though, so the capacity was seemingly there. Not that there is much competition - United only operates this route in the summer with a 7M9. JetBlue is the only year-round competitor and they run it on an A32x without Mint.