Originally Posted by TheMan
I have been flying a lot of EWR-BOS lately and noticed that all of the FC is now 6 seats, no more 10's. I thought it was fine for short flights but I noticed that on my flight to DFW from EWR on Sunday and return on Tuesday it is the same, 6 seats. There is one available. How does anyone get upgrades anymore?
This is the 735, and there are lots of discussion on this. CO spun the FC reduction as not a big deal, since the 735 primarily serves shorter routes.
But you're right. Not only do we see it on EWR-DFW (1,382 miles), we also see it on:
EWR-IAH = 1,414 miles
IAH-DCA = 1,208
IAH-SNA = 1,346
IAH-SFO = 1,635 miles (4 hours!!)
Many of these are also heavy business routes which sell the F seats. And while nobody really cares about F on DFW-IAH, BOS-EWR, or DCA-EWR, I wonder if they're shooting themselves in the foot with some of these longer routes.