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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 3:57 pm
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Though Aloha has had ETOPS-certified 737-200s; I have flown on one HNL-MDY and return, and they flew them to Kiribati.

(MDY has a hospital with a physician, and when I was there the largest income stream earned by Midway Phoenix Corp. was from aircraft and fuel fees. They also had a hyperbaric chamber, of interest to those of us who were there for the diving. One more problem with MDY is that daytime ops can be, er, disrupted by Laysan albatross, or "Gooney Bird," strikes.)

As to twin or quad-engine, I'll stick with a twin with ETOPS 180 certified (or 207) as plenty safe enough.

Originally Posted by Braniff
Aloha certainly does --- albeit not a -200, which is a good thing !
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