Captain Claret, to answer your question the Q400's aren't approved for gravel strips (by choice of the company mind you). The boffins in Flight Operations are are too precious about their new toys and wont allow them to head into unprepared strips.
Although I have a question for Lemel...if QF wouldn't buy Maroomba because they don't have high capacity on their AOC, why would they want to buy Network who dont have RPT on theirs? Or would QF just want Network's FIFO work?
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