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Old Feb 21, 2024 | 12:34 pm
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Originally Posted by notthatdeadyet
Icahn's two new board members are both financial/restructuring people. Their question is "where should this airline be positioned?"
I know I should have waited a couple of weeks, but as soon as his name hit the news I sold all but a handful of the shares I own, and I'm ready to dump the rest as soon as someone other than me says "bankruptcy"...

Well, all but two shares. I want to lose something when this all falls apart so I'll be able to complain about it for another 20 years

Back on topic, I think it would be especially interesting if they took a page out of the Spirit playbook and offered a F-style recliner seat with limited enhanced service. I wonder if people would be willing to pay a premium for seats like that, and if there would be potential cost savings. As we all know the A320 now has 162 seats -- if they can do a net loss of 12 seats to get back to 150, perhaps they could go back to three FAs per jet. That should also be enough of a drop to remove the auxiliary raft, which would be a noticeable weight savings.

-J.
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