I have to say I don't think its unrealistic to have a look and see how it goes.
Qlink operate or will soon operate 5 717's 5 around canberra all with lower thrust, 13 with higher thrust everywhere else. The sectors are short, the runways are long, with Canberra being the exception for restricted weight the lower thrust may have been worth a try. I'm not sure how many times people or bags have been offloaded, I had one flight where we offloaded bags however that was due to a Dash going U/S and us taking their 50+ pax at late notice. Unfortunately that has happened on multiple occasions, maybe thats the reason?
Has anyone been via Williamtown?
In any case the aircraft is well and truly capable of doing the job and as CC said its an overnight adjustment with some manual changes, so if Qlink management determine its not viable as is, I suspect they will make a decision to change it.
It would be a case of how many days is the temp above the limit (34?) full load, holding at Brisbane etc. If that rarely happened then may work.
Last edited by RENURPP; 31st Dec 2013 at 02:22.