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The outgoing CBFFI has just sent a letter to Air Seychelles asking it to be circulated to all SEY staff engaged on the AirBridge. It states how much he enjoyed the service, how professional he thought the crews were, the punctuality & dispatch rates & the overall experience was very impressive.
The contract requirements are for movement of a particular payload each rotation each week. This is most efficiently served by a B767-300ER size aircraft, an old B747 costs too much to run for servicing this route & with the MoD squeezing to keep costs down, it makes sense to use an aircraft of optimum size. But if needs be you can squeeze an extra 20 tonnes of payload on each rotation. It's a cracking economic & versatile aircraft for that route.
4 engines it may not be, 276 seat config for max load of 200 & only 24 fully reclining 'sleeper' seats in Pearl (business) Class it has, it almost keeps the published TriStar schedule & burns 4 tonnes of Jet A per hour.
As options go, it a relatively cheap, practical & very capable one.