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Old 13th Jun 2003, 16:16
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Kunjani GT,

Eros was closed by the Namibian government earlier this year. I still believe it was a set-up between SAA & Air Namibia to get the Eros pax into Hosea Kutako. Both SAX and Airlink did well while operating into Eros as pax obviously avoided the mountainous 80 km odd drive to Hosea. SAX was supposed to fly the Cape-Town - Hosea route from 1 April 2003. They most probably 'dumped' it like other routes I'm aware of (Jo'burg-Livingstone, Durban-Maputo - both long ago but they have a history for doing it ).

We need a CRJ and ERJ driver here for the performances. However, the info I have is that the ERJ135 had no restrictions (37 pax - full load) on RWY 01, and took a slight penalty on RWY 19 only when IFR conditions existed (obstacle clearance limitations).

The CRJ200 I think was limited to 25 pax (50% load!) max on RWY 01 and could not operate on RWY 19 at all. I hope this reply and your questions gets the guys on here.

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