L1011-500 BHX-Florida. Madness, raving looney madness.
L1011 = Gas guzzler and with fuel at the price it is why even consider operating one of these
L1011 = Highly un-reliable. Someone will be making a killing on AOG spares to keep the old crate from sitting on the ground for ever. Better train your ops guys in looking for the best brokers when it comes to trying to find a replacement aircraft.
If you end up with one of the Portugese ones you will be fleeced. They're not cheap and I bet you will do an acmi deal with them.
The only way flywhen will encourage pax to sit in clapped out un-reliable environmentally un friendly aircraft is with very cheap seats. So given the high operating costs of the aircraft where's the contribution going to come from?
EM