Originally Posted by
futurama
Interesting that Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and United have reported zero cracking so far (as of the 7-day deadline for highest cycle planes). Together they have some of the world's largest (& oldest NG) fleets.
Gol on the other hand has 11. What's the difference? The winglets?
AA B-737 - 800 Flies with Winglets .
Most Likely very high cycles on the GOL aircraft as compared with the AA B 737 NG's.
Past History : Aloha FLT 243 B 737 -200 had 89,680 CYCLES and ONLY 35,496 HOURS when it encountered in-flight structural failure of the upper fuselage.
This is opposite Ratio of Cycles/ Hours of most airlines. This aircraft had a very high number of Cycles due to to Island Hopping with short flight times.
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