Originally Posted by
Planespeaking
Well that can't happen, there isn't the land to do it, and even if there was the runway would have to be widened to comply with CAA regulations to take it into a different category.
However surely FR will have number crunched the 738sfp performance figures before announcing SEN as a base. After all the 737-800sfp has operated successfully for GOL out of Santos Dumont from a 4300 length of tarmac for many years.
I agree. The guys RYR send in to research a new airport of operation do indeed go into it in minute detail. They certainly did here at Luxembourg and we have a 4000m runway. One thing they didn't realise at SEN apparently was the existence of the firing ranges to the east, although I don't see if that's a big problem. They will have to fly the same routes in and out as all the other operators.