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There are numerous examples of aircraft which have minimalist economy cabins, to make room for large premium cabins, including:

• American Airlines:
  • Airbus A321T (10F, 20J, 36Y+, 36Y) used on transcon flights from New York (JFK) to California, plus Los Angeles to Boston and Miami.
• British Airways:
  • Airbus A318 (32J, 0Y) used between London (City) and New York (JFK).
  • Concorde (100J, 0Y). (Air France, too, with a similar configuration.)
• Singapore Airlines:
  • Airbus A350-900ULR (67J, 94Y+) used between Singapore and Newark.
  • Airbus A340-400 (100J, 0Y) used on the same route.
• United Airlines:
  • Boeing 747-222B (35F, 105J, 124Y), purchased for New York (JFK) to Tokyo (Narita).
  • United's first six Boeing 747-422 aircraft (36F, 123J, 142Y), plus one more, for premium routes.
  • Four Boeing 767-222 aircraft dedicated to flights between New York (JFK) and Los Angeles.

There are plenty of others (but not on Ryanair nor Southwest).

Nobody would jump to put the Bombardier CRJ on that list, and yet, the CRJ-550 is a member of that rarefied club, with a 10F, 20Y+, 20Y configuration. The CRJ-550 is an artifact of U.S. scope clauses, which limit the number of aircraft with more than 50 seats that can be operated by regional partners of major airlines. That led to wide deployment of the 50-seat CRJ-100/200, but these aircraft had a significant disadvantage: only economy (Y) seats.

United addressed that problem with the CRJ-550, launched on 6 February 2019 with an order for 50 aircraft, de-rated versions of the CRJ-700 that were initially operated by GoJet under the United Express brand. SkyWest began operating the CRJ-550 for United in 2024, expanding to operations for Delta (as Delta Connection) later in the year using the same configuration.

Today's Featured Map shows the April 2024 scheduled routes for the CRJ-550 under the Delta banner (red) and United (blues and orange). With the CRJ-550, Delta (Delta Connection) has 11 routes from Minneapolis, six from Detroit, and five from Salt Lake City. United (United Express) focuses the CRJ-550 on Chicago (O'Hare) (48 routes), with a dozen or so trips from Newark and Washington (Dulles) to spokes, plus trips between the two hubs. (Schedule data from Cirium Diio.)

References and additional information:

• Delta Air Lines
  • Bombardier CRJ-550 — Operated by Delta Connection Carrier SkyWest Airlines
• United Airlines
  • Bombardier CRJ-550 — Seat Map
• Ciriun Diio – Cirium
  
  
• American Airlines
  • Flagship® First — Transcontinental
  • American Airlines Airbus A321T – AeroLOPA
• British Airways
• Singapore Airlines
  
  
• Featured Map: A318: Across the Pond, or Parts (7 October 2010)
• Featured Map: Singapore Airlines Resumes Singapore to Newark Non-Stop (13 October 2018)
• Featured Map: Singapore A340-500s To Turn Into Pumpkins (31 October 2012)
• Featured Map: Singapore Airlines Eastbound To/From Newark (21 January 2012)