Originally Posted by
tmiw
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.
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.)
economies of scale for a start. So for 20% more fuel, get 50% more seats.
+ with 60 A220s Moxy would be considered a major in OZ. Virgin OZ only has 80 x 737s & quite a few of those do medium haul international. Qantarse has less at 75 x 737s but they also use some A330s for domestic trans-continental.
Who is CPA ? Where did they fly to ?
Is MOxy was to go into Carlsbad, they would surely start with 6-8 rotations a day to 2 or 3 ports.