American Airlines to abandon Social Distancing

[jon-nyc]

Selling flights to capacity.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-26/american-air-will-book-flights-to-capacity-with-pandemic-raging?fbclid=IwAR1e4yBcfWoYalTjQ5bwTx9tYbZ-sCCTAyMYsdsbJwHiVZgMZs2GKnuJaAU

Just in time for huge outbreaks around their major hubs of DFW, MIA, and PHX.

[Mik]

Not to me. But I would not get on a commercial flight for love or money. If I absolutely had to travel I would drive.

[George K]

They should just change the name of the company to "Petri Dish Airlines."

[Axtremus]

Delta is still holding the line at filling at most 60% of seats.
American Airlines must hurting really bad financially to rush to filling all seats.

[Jolly]

Sorry, I'm not a big government guy, but this is one area where the FAA should have stepped in long ago. You want to fly commercially in the U.S.? Fine...If your plane has more than ten passenger seats, you must provide adequate room for emergency egress.

In other words, no seat on a commercial airliner shall be smaller than the average domestic business class seat. No aisle shall be less than 24 inches at the floor.

If it costs more, it costs more.

[89th]

United hasn’t limited it at all, saying there’s no way to distance within a metal tube anyway. Maybe AA is following suit. Also, if you’re flying, you’ve probably accepted the inherent risk, and a seat between folks doesn’t matter?

[Horace]

Anybody who accepts the risk of boarding a socially distanced flight while rejecting the risk of a full flight is surely going with a gut risk assessment which is based mostly on the feel good symbolism of the act of social dstancing.

[Copper]

I wouldn't fly American unless I absolutely had to.

Even worse than the virus, $120 for 2 bags round trip

Larceny!