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Posted by pragmatist on Fri Jan 23 16:20:05 2015, in response to Re: Case Against LGA Link, posted by TerrApin Station on Fri Jan 23 15:41:26 2015. The most current examples of airline upsizing that would involve LGA, Southwest buying 737-800s and JetBlue buying A321s. Most industry analysts expect their primary use to be at slot limited airports. Quite a few years ago, very large a/c operated out of LGA, since they were range limited, they were not fully fueled, and could get on and off 7000 foot runways. Eastern had L1011 & A300, American had DC-10, Delta and TWA L1011, United DC-10. Later, 767's were not uncommon, including a very brief use of the 767-400 which is a very large plane. Aside from no margins for error with the runways, they pretty much needed to be at the end gates. The business model for the airlines shifted to more flights with smaller planes, All but the 767's are gone, and domestically, they are mostly on trans-cons. |
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