Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
"Us? Fly a non Boeing? Only if it's an Airbus or Douglas product and even then...
but a prop? Are you nuts??!? It's bad enough you've ever even mentioned a jet made by a prop company, but a true prop?! I didn't [fill-in-the-blank] to one day fly a prop!?!?!?"
I think that's how an email or two will go to the negotiating committee.
A prop? Gawd no. Ew.
No, we should never fly a prop. But a next-gen geared external whisper fan...
Besides a quick wiki says the C-130 can hold 92 pax in what I'm sure is a cattle car config. Spread it out with modern exit row requirements and whatnot plus install a first class and some galleys, etc and its probably close enough to 76. We wouldn't outsource a Herc, would we?
Then again.....
and........
