From: Andreas Michaelides (andreas_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 02:26:25 EST
Not just that plane: in NZ they pull out all the seats from a 737 every
night and use it for cargo, then load up the seat the next day for pax
again, I think it takes about 40 mins.
Andreas!!
:-)
>Really... Well I stand corrected then for that plane! --STeve
>
>At 02:57 PM 3/3/2000 -0500, James H. E. Maugham wrote:
>>STeve Andre' [mailto:andres_at_msu.edu] wrote:
>>
>><SNIP>
>>
>>> And, unlike
>>> the other things I mentioned, changing the configuation of an airplane
>>> seat is no easy matter, nor is it cheap.
>>
>>Sorry Steve, but wrong. 4 men can remove ALL the seats in less than an
hour
>>from an MD80 or 727.
>>
>>The seats are on tracks and the configuration of airplane seating is
>>infinitely variable. The reason we don't have more room between seats is
>>because the airlines can fit more seats in the aricraft by squishing them
>>together, not because of some inherent flaw in the aircraft.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>James
>
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