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Old 06-26-2015 | 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by APC225
Did we have 50 seat scope? Seems I saw a lot of of 70-seat aircraft then. As I recall CAL bought all those 35/50 seaters with a lot of advertising saying they were now a modern and safer all jet airline--with that word "safer" in every other sentence--implying that props were unsafe. We get 50-seat scope and, oops, it was only on jets. Next thing you know those supposedly unmodern and unsafe props were back as 70 seaters.
The props only work in select markets. That is why there were only around 50 or less of them. Much different then 153 76 seat Jets.
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