Originally Posted by
tsquare
So we are taking a 18 aircraft fleet and splitting it into 3 bases? And we wonder why a 16 fleet airplane in a single base (with trips that mostly begin with DHs) can't work. Brilliant.
Of course the fact that the whales lose $1M/month or something like that probably has something to do with it too...
Maybe it isn't an 18 aircraft fleet
Alternatively, why not fly the whales with a couple of engines shut down? My father did a three engine ferry with a 100, then ended up shutting another down. They made it from Africa to Miami just fine (at which point he got off the airplane and refused to fly it any more).
