Originally Posted by mlin32

Perhaps it's because inherently my job is the corporate bean counter- though not for airlines, I see things as a function of cost and benefit. Back a few years ago, there was the need to reduce cost and a reduction in headcount was the decision made. Of course, the unions don't like that, so they demand workload reduction. So the variable cost is reduced by one head and the flight attendant union is appeased. If there is not much loss in revenue from key customers because they don't notice, why add back the headcount ? I don't think serving the meals in two batches would be good because then half the J passengers would receive it notably later than the first rows. Unless you decide to also collect the trays 20-30mn later for the second half of the passengers, this would impact the service flow negatively.