Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
I had to laugh at the suggestion of using widebodies on domestic. Which aircraft? Parked on which gates? Both are in critically short supply already, and you cannot make a case for flying a new widebody only nine hours a day.
But imagine if as well as the current 330s, you had a fleet of, say, 14 widebodies with 47.5 m span and about 220-250 seats, that weren’t brand new and didn’t owe you much. Wouldn’t that be a handy thing on the domestic network?
Oh. Oops.