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Sep 16, 2009, 9:52 pm

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dgwright99

Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: OAK

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Originally Posted by beckoa

IIRC... SAN's biggest obstacle are those who dislike the airport... (NIMBY - Not in my back yard)... which creates a restriction on the amount of noise, and subsequently the amount of 'stuff' the A/C can carry... so the 73H's that AS has ETOPS on would have to be severely weight restricted, and they can't exactly take fuel off, so the number of pax would suffer... and so would AS CASM... yielding an unprofitable flight. AQ made it work (well... maybe not since they did go under - no pun intended

) since they used 73G's which don't have the same capacity of the 73H...

Given that BA used to fly 777s non-stop to LHR out of SAN, can it really be the case that 73H would would be weight-restricted ?

Those BA flights were usually full in the back; it was my lack of company up front that killed the economics...

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