Shorten a big plane ,rather than stretch a smaller one
Avoid imitations
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That's an understatement, at least in the case of the -600. While Boeing sold almost 400 of the -500 series, only 69 -600s were ever built, almost half of those for a single airline (SAS).
A great performer, but commercially it fared even worse than the short 737s - there's no way that selling 44 aircraft got anywhere close to covering the NRCs.
A great performer, but commercially it fared even worse than the short 737s - there's no way that selling 44 aircraft got anywhere close to covering the NRCs.
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The problem now is if you need your laptop or a clean shirt and pants for a meeting on arrival, the only way to have them is to lug them on. I took an expensive painting course in Spain, and the instructor lost his clothes, paints , palettes and brushes for the students. (forget about transporting watercolor tube paints in cabin). The stuff turned up a few days later, but the course was a mess as the expert didn't have his tools. Statistically, now, out of a hundred travelers, one will arrive to find her suits, good shoes or wedding dress have gone off to Alaska.
The tourists don't want to lug their duty-frees on board, no more than I want to carry a heavy camera and laptop. Everything, especially duty frees should get slapped with a label and packed in the hold. But all of us know that any high-value item will get "taxed". It wouldn't surprise me if baggage handlers at some third world airports made more than pilots at their national airline
Edmund
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