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Old 03-02-2020 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MCDUmanipulator
was discussed a couple pages back. Yeah that’s a ton of 319’s. Very surprising in my book.
Im betting Puddy is having a stroke right about now.
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Old 03-02-2020 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by DrDHD
that’s the first time I have seen the breakdown of the new order! 47 319 NEOS wow
They must have gotten a smoking deal in the 319’s
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Old 03-02-2020 | 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Meep
They must have gotten a smoking deal in the 319’s
Is that a NEO air quality issue joke?
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Old 03-02-2020 | 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Tranquility
I very rarely have many bags on domestic routes, so filling up tanks shouldn’t be a problem. Going south, different question. A couple of trips ago I did a IAH-SAP turn and we had nearly 200 bags each way, in a 320! �
If we got the XLR, it’d be interesting to see how Spirit deploys it.
a NEO XLR could do FLL to GIG...
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Old 03-02-2020 | 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
a NEO XLR could do FLL to GIG...
AA does MIA to GIG in a triple 7, showing 8:20 block. At Mach .84.

Have fun on the 14 hour layover, I’d be dropping that one every chance I get.
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Old 03-03-2020 | 02:35 AM
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Originally Posted by RemoveB4flght
AA does MIA to GIG in a triple 7, showing 8:20 block. At Mach .84.

Have fun on the 14 hour layover, I’d be dropping that one every chance I get.
14 hour layover? Are you on the schedule planning committee?

I think his main idea was it would be cool how Spirit could expand our network further...Not necessarily about how cool our layovers would be.
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Old 03-03-2020 | 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by RemoveB4flght
AA does MIA to GIG in a triple 7, showing 8:20 block. At Mach .84.

Have fun on the 14 hour layover, I’d be dropping that one every chance I get.
send them directly to me. If it’s a 2 day worth 17hrs I’m all about it. If it’s a 3day w a red eye for the same credit, Id be avoiding too. of course a red eye couldn’t be done in augmented with block over 8:00
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Old 03-03-2020 | 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
send them directly to me. If it’s a 2 day worth 17hrs I’m all about it. If it’s a 3day w a red eye for the same credit, Id be avoiding too. of course a red eye couldn’t be done in augmented with block over 8:00
It would almost certainly be a 3 day, because the report times in 117 tables have to line up in order to get at least 9 hours of flight time.

If you take Lima as a template and then chisel away 3-4 hours on either side of the duty off and duty on times in station, that would give you a pretty good idea of what Rio would look like. Hotel location/transport would also affect the amount of actual time “out of uniform”

Would Rio be “cool” to visit, sure. Do I want to operate a narrow body from FLL to get there? Nope.
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Old 03-03-2020 | 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by RemoveB4flght
It would almost certainly be a 3 day, because the report times in 117 tables have to line up in order to get at least 9 hours of flight time.

If you take Lima as a template and then chisel away 3-4 hours on either side of the duty off and duty on times in station, that would give you a pretty good idea of what Rio would look like. Hotel location/transport would also affect the amount of actual time “out of uniform”

Would Rio be “cool” to visit, sure. Do I want to operate a narrow body from FLL to get there? Nope.
what does it matter if it’s a narrow body or widebody?
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Old 03-03-2020 | 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Halon1211
what does it matter if it’s a narrow body or widebody?
Narrow bodies are significantly slower, and they don’t have crew rest facilities.

Spirit big front seats do not even meet the qualifications for a class 3 rest facility, so we couldn’t do augmented crew even if we wanted to.

Like I said, IF they get XLRs and IF they decide to do those type of routes as 2 pilot long range, fantastic. I don’t have any interest in doing them so one less person fighting against the bots in open time.

I’ll let you get back to spreading banal rumors.
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