Corsair is a French low cost carrier that primarily operates long haul flights between Paris Orly and the Caribbean, though they have some other routes as well. Up until this summer the airline didn't fly to the US (they did back in the day, though had discontinued all those routes). Then as of June 2019…
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Delta's A330 900 has 281 seats and Tap Portugal has 304, so this configuration with 352 is dense indeed. And perhaps that will give them the advantage in a crowded market. Not so much an advantage for their poor economy class passengers though!
Really why bother? The market is almost saturated at this point, unless Norwegian folds leaving room for an additional low cost carrier. POS will be heavy from France, not US.
Based on the number of economy seats, have they configured their economy cabin with nine-across seating?
Corsair uses 3-3-3 seating on their current A330s, so they likely also have it on the A339s.
I flew Corsair JFK to Orly 20 years ago. Great flight. Paid $495 non-stop, which was a deal at the time for sure.
If Corsair is flying the brand new Airbus from Paris Orly Airport( Parisians'Favorite airport ,29 mns from Paris center) it will be hugely successful i think.