Airplane charters for professional sports teams is a big business. We're talking about a lot of people who have to be moved around pretty often. However, it's also an industry that's facing some challenges at the moment. Historically NFL teams had charter agreements with airlines to get their teams around. However, lately we've seen several…
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I'm honestly pretty surprised that it's not nicer! I was imagining they'd at least have some lie-flat seats or something. Not easy to finish up a game at midnight on the west coast and red-eye back to Boston.
I think they kept it modest, probably management up front with star players.
Others at the back.
I guess they are big guys so width of the seats is probably important.
@ When I Travel The World - I'm surprised they didn't build a Residence ala Etihad style just for Brady.
Seems perfect to me - especially the wide seats the the 5” extra legroom over domestic first class. Beats the Hell out of charter flights - can’t imagine the big guys seated in domestic coach on a narrow body plane.
That looks pretty uncomfortable for guys that are near 300lbs, unless they get 2 seats.
Hi Lucky, I think the 2-3-2 was the “before” shot and the 2-2-2 is the “after” shot, so the layout is 2-2-2 everywhere.
I'm surprised they didn't do a partnership with the Red Sox and share the same two planes. Given the lack of overlapping schedules (really only September and potentially early October) you would think getting them involved to use the planes in the summer months would be more cost effective for both parties. Or, 4 767s split between all 4 Boston teams and have the entire fleet decked out in Boston themes....
The limiting reagent would seem (based on the video) to be getting at least enough people into the aircraft. It'd be lovely to get flatbeds, but when you've got 53+ PUP players using the larger seats and probably about 80 (mostly normal sized) other employees on the plane you can't afford much more personal room than you see here. Domestic 1st + 5" should be about 44" pitch. 2-3-2 part of the plane should be a normal person short to trascon acceptible 18" seat width and that should afford almost 21" of width in the 2-2-2 section. Road teams always arrive days in advance of a game and it's a week (or almost) after they get home before they play again, so I think they can fit in their beauty sleep during the week on the rare trascon. Or a player can just pay for a bigger seat in JetBlue Mint, Delta... I heard these guys are pretty well paid 😉
Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavs 757 is much nicer.
But then again, NBA players are on airplanes a LOT more than NFL players.
Do they have a Tom Brady suite up front that they're not showing in the video?