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Flew a320 Cap for two years and never made a fuel stop.
As a 737-300 Cap did one fuel stop, BOS - DEN.
The most restrictive 320 flight I ever did, fuel wise, was SNA - ORD in winter with fuel for alternate. Short runway and full pax load, still made it with a 30 minute hold for ORD. SEA - IAD? No sweat.
737-900ER, from what you guys say, where's the ER part?
War stories
But, we get paid to fly em "safe" and someone else decides which airplanes.
Otto says it well and nothing anyone has said about 737 NGs is untrue. It's a small tube and pit. There are certain routes where given the load and airport challenges, the 757 would be a better fit (SJO-EWR comes to mind). However, the 737 NG family does provide a lot of flexibility at a reasonable cost. The -700... SNA-EWR is no problem any time of year. Unfortunately, is it only holds 12/112. The -800 is a nice compromise and works well on transcons, but it can't do EGE or SNA-EWR, and SJO-EWR is usually a challenge. The -900ER is OK for transcons in the summer, but westbound transcons in the winter are tight. As has been said it eats runway and has a pretty tight margin for tailstrikes on landing. I've flown the 737 for over 10 years and never had to make a fuel stop (though we've just had the -900ERs for a few years and it does have flights with scheduled fuel stops). Like you say... we don't control what they buy. It's up to us to determine who flys them and for how much.Originally Posted by Regularguy
"but probably not many more then the Bus."Flew a320 Cap for two years and never made a fuel stop.
As a 737-300 Cap did one fuel stop, BOS - DEN.
The most restrictive 320 flight I ever did, fuel wise, was SNA - ORD in winter with fuel for alternate. Short runway and full pax load, still made it with a 30 minute hold for ORD. SEA - IAD? No sweat.
737-900ER, from what you guys say, where's the ER part?
War stories
But, we get paid to fly em "safe" and someone else decides which airplanes.