Originally Posted by
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Interesting to see SFO and other west coast flying on ATL 88 for April.
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FWIW, I heard the other day that a 73NG breaks even after about 25 days of use per month. 88's B/E is 5 days.
Heard it second hand so it might not be true but it came from a presenter at the LCA meeting so it'd be interesting. Maybe even with high oil the not as efficient 88 can hang ar.... mentioned oil. Sorry.
I heard that first hand from a network guy at a base-ops visit in SLC early last year (when there still was a MD90 base in SLC)
A pilot asked about the what the difference was between the 160 seat MD90 and the 160 seat 738.
Apart from "lower pilot costs" (yes he did say that in front of a whole group of pilots) he said the 738 takes 25 days to break even with 5 days of "gravy" whereas the numbers are reversed for the MD90....
Cheers
George