<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bonzaiflyer:
NW's (Mesaba's) ARJs have 16 F seats.</font>
Yes, and original reason for those F seats was to avoid violating the NW pilots contract which allows regional carriers to fly aircraft with 69 seats or less. If you ever walk behind the curtain on a NW AVRO, you'll find more legroom than on a CO 737, and six seats in every row, except one, which only has 5, in order to have only 69 seats onboard.
But everyone who flies the AVRO loves it, especially up front. I wonder now if NW would rip them out and put coach seats in if the pilot contract were changed?