Originally Posted by
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Oh no, 40 minutes a day would be way too much.
According to the tables to keep the 1.56 ratio intact you would be limited to 4.8 hours per year max on each airplane in a DCI 450/325 fleet with a single 739 at mainline flying it's normal block hours.
I think the drop in ASMs would be significant. Probably would have investors fuming. A 1-3% drop in ASMs however is probably praised.
I can post my math.
That's assuming any required block hour reduction
(regardless of the number of mainline airframes that would require it) was spread evenly across the DCI fleet. I haven't seen anything that would prevent them from drawing down block hours from the 50 seaters, perhaps even parking more of them and upping the block hours on the 76 seaters.