Most travel agents couldn't believe that we got 211 on a 707... We told them that one of the galleys had been removed, and this made more space.
My moment of shame when working as casual ground staff at EMA was meeting a Boeing parked on the north edge of the apron, and leading a long line of dawdling punters right across the ramp to arrivals, causing an inbound F27 to give way, rather like a car at a zebra crossing...