Faced with ongoing staff shortages, UK-based easyJet plans to remove a row of six seats from its A319 planes so they can fly with three crew members instead of four under rules set by the country's Civil Aviation Authority.

 

“This is an effective way of operating our fleet while building additional resilience and flexibility into our operation this summer, where we expect to be back to near 2019 levels of flying,” the carrier said.

 

The move limits the maximum A319 passenger number to 150 per flight.