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.
GOL do not operate with 189 seats - more like 170 and not for mission lengths such as SEN-ACE or CFU - Ryanair have 189 seats on their fleet - FR will not take the hit on payload limits for long imho
The 738/SFP allows one to take
increased loads but NOT always necessarily MAX loads or accept high landing weights