Originally Posted by
Kagamuga
ebt !
Do some homework first; what a turkey you are ...
The Fokker 70, 100, F28, has been the backbone of Air Niugini for 40 years now in one variation or another.
Robust, reliable, can take enourmus punishment and they even fly very short sectors of of 15 to 30 minutes.
Take a look at the time expired airframes at Port Moresby on the rubbish dump. No modern aircraft can match a Fokker.
And as an added bonus PX ignored the volcanic ash warnings of recent times and there is plenty of video on the internet of the Fokker's landing in the ash at Hoskins and Tokua. I did not see anu of the "Roller" engines being changed!
Gobble, gobble!
Fokkers are great aircraft, no doubt, but they were never designed to do 12-14 hours of utilisation per day flying up and down the east coast, with the occasional back-of-the-clock transcon in as well. Look back 10 years ago and there was a reason that QQ would go and buy another couple of frames whenever they got a new contract that would add 1-2 flights per week. The values of the type meant it was cheap for them to do, and at some point when an E190 or another similar jet gets there, they will start replacing them.