By That validates the decision of most major U.S. carriers at the start of the pandemic to stop selling middle seats. It’s a measure that has since been almost universally abandoned. Delta Air Lines Inc., the last holdout, will go back to filling its cabins to capacity starting May 1.
The reasons aren’t hard to discern. The fixed cost of an individual flight is high. Landing and navigation charges are the same whether a plane has one passenger or 300. Even labor expenses are more or less set in stone, since the number of cabin crew required are largely determined by how many seats an aircraft has, rather than how many of them are filled. Fuel costs, too, don’t vary much, because most of the weight of an airplane at takeoff consists of the aircraft and fuel, rather than passengers and their luggage.
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