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Old 01-30-2012 | 11:41 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by Schwanker
Burn is approx 17K/hr depending on weight/stage length...
I think 292 pax
DC-10 ..17,000/292=58 PPH/PX
CRJ200 ..3,200/50=64 PPH/PX
737-700 ..5,000/130=38 (published is 34.46 so my swag is fairly close)

That's why we can't win this fight with the wrong equipment. Richard and Ed made it sound (during the Winter quarter conference call) that LGA isn't expected to be profitable. It allows us to reallocate airplanes from markets which lose more, into a market where they will lose less. Still, the long term answer has to be something like this that closes the scope gap.

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