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Smile!!!
A 747 wouldnt need a fuel stop to go to SFB. The TCD 747 makes the journey weekly for CWL with its short 2392m runway, a service is plausible from NCL on runway length at all with only a 40m shorter runway. Isnt it? I
Smile, you are over simplifying the issues, you could not plan a regular non stop 747 from NCL to MIA without allowing for a westbound fuel stop. You may find acceptable weather conditions that tie in with loads on certain days that enable such an operation, but as has been discussed at legnth in earlier forum postings, the critical factor that you have totally ignored is the runway 'TODA' at NCL, and on 25 at least there is a rather nasty hill some 500m from the end which restricts performance. I am not at all interested in CWL so can't comment on any of their 747 op's, but I can assure you that the issue is much more than an extra 40m.