Originally Posted by
OZFLYER86
Is McClellan-Palomar airport out of the way ? Wonder what the population within 30 mins drive would be & their average income ? What's the population of mainland USA ?
1.5 million within a 25 mile radius of Carlsbad, CA. However, the southern edge of that circle is close enough to SAN that many will just go there instead. Reducing that circle to 15 miles reduces the population to 785,000 or so.
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Source for data.)
Also keep in mind that there's significant traffic on the major highways leading to it, which will be a factor too.
Originally Posted by
OZFLYER86
it seems from these A220 specs below, that an A220-100 could get in & out(just) of Carlsbad, maybe with some weight restriction, but think Moxy has ordered only the bigger A220-300, but that could change in a heartbeat, plus Moxy is probably not going to be all economy, so they might not even get close to MTOW.
Point being that this sort of airport, that couldn't handle a B737/A320 but maybe with a slightly longer runway, could handle an A220. Think of big boys only Delta has ordered the A220 & do they want another base in LA/San Diego basin ?
Sure, it could take off from there. However, the A220-100 has a 135 passenger max capacity. If California Pacific Airlines couldn't fill Embraer jets (~70 seat capacity), I'm not sure how Moxy would do any better with twice the seats to fill.
(The A220 also uses 2.81kg/km of fuel per flight, vs. 2.3kg/km for the E170. Which definitely isn't going to help if the loads aren't good enough.)