Ciro From Brazil, joined Aug 1999, 662 posts, RR: 7 Posted (10 years 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 4104 times:
Hi,
I wonder why the 737 and A-320 "Quick-Change" versions, for evening cargo services, are not very popular. Is it because of the interior damage the freight causes in the aircraft?
Thanks
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XXXX10 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2000, 777 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (10 years 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 4076 times:
It may have something to do with the fact that there is propbably a weight penalty ofr the QC version. It would have a lower payload tthan either the pure passenger or freighter version.
Ciro From Brazil, joined Aug 1999, 662 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (10 years 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3944 times:
I didn't understand why a lower payload would be a matter, considering that "QC" aircraft fly late-night services mainly, instead of being parked idle in the tarmac.
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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29352 posts, RR: 62 Reply 4, posted (10 years 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 3922 times:
The FAA has pretty much refused to certify any new combi aircraft. This is fallout from an SAA 747 that burned up over the Indian Ocean a number of years back.
Also I think that some of the new "G" requirements for seats would require some significan re-engineering.
QC airplanes are really popular up here. They allow an operator to tailor the configuation of the aircraft to the freight and pax he has to move.
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Teva From France, joined Jan 2001, 1868 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (10 years 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3879 times:
2 reasons they are not as popular as they could be.
1) Logistics with the seats. Your rotations have to work perfectly, or you may end up with the seats in one location, and the plane in another one.
2) The seats you have in those planes are fixed on pallets. That means they cannot accept an IFE system.(if you start to have cables and connection, you cannot change the configuration in 20 minutes) And those seats are not up to the standards of some airlines.
ONe good example in France: Europe Airpost (formerly l'Aeropostale) has some 737 QC for the night .
In the psat, they were used during the day by AIr Inter for French domestic flts. After the Air France bought Air Inter, they used them for a few more years, and decided that the seats were no longer up to their standards. (and they stopped using them)
The good news is that Aeris, who got slots at Orly from the defunct AirLib, has decided to use them to start their low cost operation
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