Originally Posted by
rog747
......... 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
With the above having been the result of your friend's number crunching for SEN it is surely surprising that RYR have gone to all the trouble of putting on sale flights to 14 destinations from SEN and then suddenly discovered that such flights will be "simply not economical". If you are correct it will certainly turn out to be quite an "I told you" moment for you.
By the way, the runway length of Santos Dumont is 1,465m so comparing the GOL operation to that of RYR at SEN is somewhat tenuous.