Originally Posted by
zman
That would mean a minimum staffing of 4 Flight Attendants instaed of 3. That is a minimum of 100+ added flight attendants to support this configuration.
Delta probably did a cost-benefit comparison and figured out that the incremental costs of an extra FA (given the lower labor costs since bankruptcy) per flight will be made up for by the incremental revenue from the extra seats as well as the lower CASM (more seats to spread the cost over)...