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Ben88 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1093 posts, RR: 3
Posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 886 times:

When I was planning our flight to Paris, I checked out an airline called Corsair. They operate 747's from LAX to ORY. Their 747-300's seat 580 people! And they have a business class! How is this possible? Can you imagine an 11 hour flight on a plane with 580 people onboard. My goodness.

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Airbus60 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 709 times:

sorry, did you say 580 people, i find that hard to understand, give me more information please

Ben88 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1093 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 698 times:

I couldn't believe it either. Here's the url:

http://www.corsair.fr/avions.htm

These planes fly international flights. How could 580 people be packed into an 11 hour flight?

ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5544 posts, RR: 40
Reply 3, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 692 times:

That's realy unbelievable. Go to the home-page of this airline. An example to compare: They have A-330-200 with in total 355 seats, 18 of them are business. Swissair has some A-330-200 with only two classes: in total 230 seats, 48 business. Compare! I would never ever choose Corsair.

Cricri From France, joined Oct 1999, 581 posts, RR: 7
Reply 4, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 689 times:

Hello Folks!

It's not the first time that I read something like this about Corsair.

Corsair is a carrier owned by a french Tour Operator called "Nouvelles Frontières" an equivalent of Club Mediterranée if you know it better. Here in France they are known for puting as much people as they can in their aircrafts.

You have to know that this type of passenger belongs to a certain category of traveller who wants the farest but the cheapest. No surprise then...!!!

One nice thing is their logo!

Cheers!

JZ From United States of America, joined May 1999, 252 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 661 times:

The way they do it is have a small "business class" on the upper deck of their 747-100, with probably 12-15 seats. On the main deck of the 747, it's all economy seating for about 560 people. The numbers of galley and lavatories are kept to a minumum. Yes, you can pack that many people in there.

In the US, Tower Air does the same thing on their aging 747-100s.

Avion From Bouvet Island, joined May 1999, 2205 posts, RR: 8
Reply 6, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 618 times:

This is what their homepage says about their 747-300:
"580 sièges
dont 36Y et 25C au pont supérieur Classe "Grand Large", service business
Autonomie 12h30/10.000 km "

So they have 36 economy and 25 business class seats only in the upper-deck. I dont want to fly them even if they payed me for it.

Thanks

Avion

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