Ready to get on a completely sold out flight? American Airlines thinks you are, and won't limit the number of passengers on a flight starting next week.
You know how we’re in the middle of a pandemic that’s taken the lives of over 120,000 Americans, and whose first wave is spiking again? And how one of the simplest and most crucial precautions we can take to prevent spread is by maintaining physical distance between each other? And how, in order to keep passengers spread out, airlines like American and Delta have been keeping flights below capacity for the last few months? I’m asking because it’s important to know all that.
It’s the context for the news that American announced last night, which is that, as of July 1,Currently American books its planes to about 85% of their total capacity. About half of the middle seats of the main cabin are sold for flights right now, and presumably those are filled by parties who are traveling together and thus already regularly exposed to each other. As of next week, though, American’s going to stop doing that. There will be no caps on how many seats can be sold for any flight.
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