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Old 21st Mar 2012, 10:28
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LN-KGL
 
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Hardly stealing a march ... SEN is long enough for A319's but not long enough for B737-800's ... Go figure!
GOL in Brazil flys sheduled flights in to Santos Dumont, Rio de Janeiro with 737-800 and the runway there is only 1,320m long. Boeing developed a Short Field Performance improvement package in 2005/06 for the 737NG, and a number of other operators around the world that has this SFpip installed. Norwegian is one of these operators, and they are going to do a flight test to FAE later this spring (TORA/TODA/ASDA/LDA 1,799m) with their 737-800 SFpip. Of course, Ryanair don't have SFpip.
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