Why is the airline's LCC interview distance narrower?

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Have you ever felt that the distance of the seats in the cabin of Company A was narrower than that of Company B? In fact, the planes used are of the same type.

If you feel that, maybe you are on a low cost airliner or low cost carrier (LCC).

"In an airplane made all the economy is such that the number of pbadengers carried is greater, "said flight observer Alvin Lee. Kompas.com, Jakarta, Monday (26/11/2018).

"If you pay attention, the distance between the front and rear seats is narrower to maximize the load," he continued.

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Alvin Lee said that for the airline LCC, reducing the number of seats was one of the company's strategies for generating profits.

Because, with the distance between the seats reduced, the plane can accommodate more pbadengers.

For the airline LCC, the volume of pbadengers is important because it will significantly affect the revenues of the company.

Conversely, if there are empty seats, airlines can lose money. Therefore, optimizing the utility of aircraft is one of the strategies used by the airline LCC.

In fact, this strategy of optimizing unitility not only reduces the distance between the pbadenger seat, but can also maximize luggage.

"The luggage compartment is also used to transport the cargo with additional revenue," said Alvin.

In addition, another strategy is to fly over the plane more than 15 hours a day, or 8 to 10 flights per day.

To maximize flight operations, the airline LCC also accelerates the gap between a flight and a flight.

Or the time needed to reduce the number of pbadengers and the time of pbadenger transport is only 30 to 35 minutes.

This is not risky. According to Alvin, if a flight schedule delay, other flight schedules may come delay. That's the potential of LCC flights delay.

"For example, the plane that leaves the first experiments delay because of the weather or the density of the traffic, it will slow down the flights until the night ", he declared.

Although optimization is complete, says Alvin, there is no tolerance for aviation safety aspects. According to him, safety standards between LCC airlines, full serviceand premium service everything is the same.

This means that if the aircraft is declared non-feasible because it does not meet the standards, the aircraft still can not fly without seeing the LCC, full serviceor premium service even if.