Originally Posted by
rog747
perhaps you may let me add old chap, thank you
A good friend is a skipper at D8/DI and flies both the 738 and MAX from LGW (I have mentioned this before on earlier posts if anyone has followed me)
He has crunched numbers for SOU and some SEN ops purely out of Interest (and for GIB too) and the payload limitations even for shorter flights simply are simply not economical - the hit of unsaleable seats out of the 189 maximum on some routes was crippling
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So why if the performance out of SEN is as dire as you and your friend say has FR publicly committed themselves to opening a 738 base? Something doesn't compute between you and the FR number crunchers.
Last edited by Planespeaking; 8th Jan 2019 at 21:25.