Originally Posted by
NonRevKid
And they were awesome for cargo revenue. While pax capacity had gotten more competitive, cargo capacity was still pretty tight.
Yes, hence why they were deployed in the cargo-rich markets of the CAFTA-DR countries, to airports such as SDQ and SJO, as well as the low-yield, high-load factor markets like MIA and SJU.
But those AB6s were maintenance nightmares. Ground staff at JFK used to joke that MIA staff kept sending broken AB6s up to JFK because nobody wanted to repair them at MIA!