Apparently, there’s an FAA rule that airlines need a certain number of flight attendants per number of seats. So, in a cost-savings move, JetBlue plans to remove 6 seats from each plane, so they can fly with one less attendant per flight.
We certainly can’t complain about an extra 4 inches of leg room that this will result in (for the first 9 rows, at least), but it’s certainly odd that reducing seats and staff could actually assist those of us jammed in those cheap seats.
The savings? 900 pounds (does that include the fired attendant?) and $30 million.
The lesson? Try to sit toward the front of JetBlue planes to take advantage of those extra inches…until they figure out a way to charge for it.