<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ORD Finn:
Yeah, those ATRs are no fun. Maybe they can by a cheap 747 from United now
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Actually the remaining ATRs will be moved to be part of EE's fleet in the next few years. I think EE is going to take over quite a few of Finnair's domestic routes (this might require Estonia to join the EU first, though, so it wouldn't happen before 2004). Or maybe they are going to move more and more routes over to DC.
Anyway, there was a piece in Helsingin Sanomat some weeks (months?) back about Finnair eyeing the ERJs with great interest.
That would really be something, since I think that's a pretty neat little plane. But only for short hops, I once flew the Skyways' ERJ-145 ARN-ZRH and at over 2 hours that was definitely the upper limit for it.
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