Originally Posted by
Lyman
Absolutely. 200 Pounds is a seat. The argument will not be, "You will not have a full aircraft every time, so we'll just discount its elimination..."
It will be, "That seat is five hundred dollars iost in revenue per leg."
"And that is two hundred thousand dollars every year...." conservatively...
Indeed. But that's just a negotiating ploy, which, presuming Boeing do have some aeronautical professionalism left, they should be able to competently rebut. Of course, the manufacturers have only themselves to thank for this perception that seat-mile costs are the be-all and end-all of life, as if every seat on every flight 24x365 can be filled with revenue pax at full fare (and, following on with the Boeing 787 marketing guff, as if there is no potential market any more for anything under 7,000 miles range - I wonder what they make of All Nippon using their 787s on domestic flights !)