Old 03-26-2012 | 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by johnso29
You're incorrect, unless you define 36 as a big group. The Compass birds were grandfathered in at 89,000lb lbs.
This is in fact what I was talking about.

I do consider that a big group; how many DC-9s have been at mainline for the past year? As you know, a little less than this number, and the nine has it's own sims, own training program, it's own bidding category, and so on. 36 jets is also more than the 747-400 and 777 fleets combined. Sure, they're much larger, but anyway this is why I do consider the 36 group a fairly sizeable group of aircraft.

I know it's only a few thousand pounds and generally the E175s do not see anything about ~85K on 95% of it's routes anyway, but that is my line of thinking.
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