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There are fewer crewmembers, though. The FAA requires a 50:1 ratio for flight attendants. (Famously, JetBlue in the US ripped out two rows of seats in its origi
by bobthepanda 3y ago
There are fewer crewmembers, though. The FAA requires a 50:1 ratio for flight attendants. (Famously, JetBlue in the US ripped out two rows of seats in its original A320s to get to a round multiple of 50, and then used the extra room to get the largest seat pitch in economy.)
To give a bit of comparison, there are 16k employees at JR Central, who operate the Tokaido Shinkansen in addition to normal rail lines; there are 90k employees at Delta. (JR Central has a market cap of $26B and Delta has a market cap of $23B.)
- labcomputer 3y agoNotice that I did not specify the number of crew members, just the number of labor hours.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThat's fair. I suppose one benefit of trains is all the intermediate traffic. Every flight attendant is only really serving an A->B flight, or an A->B->C flight with an intermediate stop. Trains can make many stops and have higher turnover, and combined with the generally higher capacity of a train, I wonder if the passenger-hours per employee ends up being a wash.