B777A340Fan From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 749 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
Is it me or do airlines seem to employ smaller airplanes (B737s, B757s, A319s, etc.) for longer routes? Are we seeing a route diversification where airlines want to serve more destinations with smaller airplanes? Sort of boost direct flights?
B6JFKH81 From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 2767 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1044 times:
Well, in the case of the LCC's, the theory is to have a single or limited fleet type and squeeze as many miles out of them as possible. And with the growing popularity of the LCC's, you are going to see that trend definitely. I think it is also an issue of not overflooding the various markets with ASMs.
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Superhub From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2006, 476 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1011 times:
Quoting B777A340Fan (Thread starter): Is it me or do airlines seem to employ smaller airplanes (B737s, B757s, A319s, etc.) for longer routes?
Depends on which airlines you are talking about. In the US, there is a philosophy that routes should be served with smaller aircrafts but with higher frequencies. For example, instead of sending two B744 each day (assume US airlines still have them) from SFO-JFK, an airline would fly 4-5 B757/767 a day. And because there is not enough demand to send 5 B747 services, smaller planes are used.
Asian airlines, however, still tend to stick with larger aircrafts with low frequency of flights. However, there are still destinations which are served by large aircrafts with high frequencies (HKG-TPE is one..flights depart at least once an hour all with heavies) and there is also a trend to use smaller aircrafts but boost frequencies too. CX's HKG-LHR now have four daily flights, most of served by A340.
Jetflyer From Netherlands, joined Aug 2009, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1006 times:
Why put the same passengers on a widebody plane which burns a hell of a lot more fuel....
Modern narrowbody planes have a capability to fly longer routes so bying a load of them only to fly 3-400 miles routes would be a complete waste of money.
KrisYYZ From Canada, joined Nov 2004, 1575 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 947 times:
If a LCC or even a mainline airline can't fill a B767 or A330 on a long-haul route then logic would dictate that a smaller plane would be more cost effective. LCC as mentioned like fleet commonality, but this trend is growing on bigger airlines as well. Both CO and AA are using winglet-ed B752s on trans-atlantic ops, AC is apparently considering A319 YHX-LHR.
If planes like the B737ER catch on, then you'll see more narrow-bodies on transatlantic and long range flights.
B6JFKH81 From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 2767 posts, RR: 7 Reply 5, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 947 times:
Quoting Superhub (Reply 2): Depends on which airlines you are talking about. In the US, there is a philosophy that routes should be served with smaller aircrafts but with higher frequencies.
That is an excellent point. Here in the US, customers expect to see a choice of when they can go on their flight. They don't want to get up too early, or don't want to get in too late, or need to be at a business meeting first thing in the morning....they want the higher frequencies.
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IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4718 posts, RR: 25 Reply 6, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 866 times:
Quoting KrisYYZ (Reply 4): Both CO and AA are using winglet-ed B752s on trans-atlantic ops
CO has been using B752's on trans Atlantic ops almost from day 1 of their delivery to CO back in the early to mid 90's, long before the winglets showed up.
I don't mind the single aisle planes so much on long runs but almost 4 hours in an RJ is a bit much such as the IAH-BOI flights.
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TurkishWings From Turkey, joined May 2006, 1407 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (6 years 11 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 817 times:
TK flies 737-800s to places lile ALY, TAS, KHI . It might be economical as loads on these routes would not be high to fill a 310 or a 330 but let me tell you it is quite hard to work on these flights. 6 hours on a 737 is not fun man. Neither for the pax nor the crew.
On top of it, after 9/11, the crew did not stay at the destination until recently. So they did IST-KHI-IST. Uhhh it must have been painful
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