You would think a flight attendant's salary wouldn't come close to four paying tickets but since fli

Want to be guaranteed an open seat next to you on your next American Airlines flight? There’s a way you can do it without buying two seats when you’re flying on a 737-800MCE aircraft. All you need to do is book a seat in rows 16 or 17, which are located directly behind the exit rows. See this SeatGuru.com seat map.
How is that possible, you ask? Some economics thailand travel packages geek must have figured out that American could save some money if they took away four seats. I know that doesn’t make any sense but the 737-800MCE is outfitted with 154 seats, which means the airline is required to have four flight attendants. The FAA states: “For airplanes having a seating capacity of more than 100passengers—two flight attendants plus one additional flight attendant for each unit (or part of a unit) of 50 passenger seats above a seating capacity of 100 passengers.”
You would think a flight attendant’s salary wouldn’t come close to four paying tickets but since flight loads average 82.8% and not 100% there are usually some empty seats (before they get filled with non-rev passengers).
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How long has this FAA rule been in effect? With the sophisticated yield management systems airlines use for pricing thailand travel packages seats, it seems they would have thought about this when initially configuring seat map.
The one flight attendant per 50 passenger rule has been around for a long, long time. It is also part of why JetBlue put in their extra leg room seats, cutting the total number of passengers to 150 per A320 several years ago. They went from 4- 3 flight attendants as part of that move.
And i think the other commenter meant that leg in the top right of the photo. At first it looks odd like they stuck it out intentionally until you see that the person has it over their other leg! See you in Toronto?
Hi Johnny, I noticed in the seatguru website that one of the JetBlue aircrafts is also missing a seat, but just one in the right side (row 18). It doesn t seem it was done for the same reason as it has less than a hundred seats. Any idea why they did it, besides giving a whole sit of leg room th the passenger behind it?
I was randomly assigned one of these seats last month and was wondering what the purpose was. At first I thought the middle seat must have been broken, but then I realized the row in front of mine had that too. Now I know!
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