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Old Sep 20, 2004, 3:41 pm
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Originally Posted by rumorboy
Right now if you fly out of ATL nonstop to LAS you will fly the A320. If you fly through DFW you fly on the 717. the 737s are flying to SFO and LAX but I hear LAS will be the last to transition to the 737 which will take place NOV 11th.
The Boeing 717 is AirTran's plane of choice, the A320's, and now the new B737's are used on routes that the B717 does not have the range for. There's no risk of ending up on a B717 in other words on an ATL-LAS flight because they just don't have the range for it.
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