Thomas Cook are using 757’s on some of the Canadian pond hops on behalf of Canadian Affair, a tour operator. Seats have been removed though to improve overall pitch.
Could this also have something to do with weight constraints? The tour operator will always try and sell it rather than admit they have had to do it!
Removing say 6 rows of seating = 36 seats. Usual config would be 235 seats – so down to 199 or whatever… I think we used 88kg for a males avg weight.
88 x 36 = 3168kg plus baggage – upto 20kg…
20 x 36 – 720kg = 3888kg
Thats 3.9 tonnes plus the weight of the actual seating etc etc – am I reasonable to say a potential 5.5 tonnes off the all up weight?
That is presuming they are intending to do it direct. If they were going via say Bangor for a refuel I don’t know whether it would make much differance?? Where’s Wys the 757 expert when you need him – probably polishing up on his Airbus manuals…
I have never worked with B752s so forgive me if it is well off the mark!
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