Windsor
I do 5x5's
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Don't say stuff like that! Props are still for boats.:beer:
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Don't say stuff like that! Props are still for boats.:beer:
This was hashed out in a previous thread but I think the consensus was that the 170 is between 3500 and 4200 lbs an hour.
By contrast the Q400 is 2000-2300 lbs an hour for basically the same number of seats.
F9 has wanted out of the RAH contract for a while, I'm guessing the is one of the goals of Chapter 11.
They are still fairly solvent, just wanted to use Chapter 11 to get more cash on hand, I would be surprised to see a shutdown.. like many major carriers they will hopefully come out of Ch 11 different but alive
It works out in terms of speed, but that doesn't nearly offset the fuel burn. Take a 900 mile leg for instance. The Q does it in about 3 hours and burns about 6500lbs total, the E-Jet does it in 2:15 which is still a burn of about 8500 lbs. Sure passengers like the jet more and its faster but if the prop does it for 300 lbs less fuel and thus saves the company a grand a leg, guess which they are going with..
Obviously a knucklehead that is ill informed or he is just spouting off at the piehole with no real source. Idiot, at least know the facts before spouting off !
Um WHAT????
Based on what you bolded either you are arguing that the Q and the 170 don't have roughly the same number of seats.. I'm pretty sure thats indisputable. Or that F9 doesn't want to get of Republic... thats a pretty accepted fact around DEN.. not my doing..
Oh and to the guy that wants all prop operators to fail because they get paid less.. I don't even know where to begin. Maybe if some succeeded we would see prop rates improve.. but the fact of the matter is as long as pilots see prop drivers as second rate(many do) companies will do the same. I however beleive props are likely the future of the airlines again and think we should support prop ops and helping get their rates up..
oh and by the way Horizon pays more on a smaller jet.. so don't laud them..
Horizon does pay more on the Q400 than any other US operator. They also pay more on the CR7 than anyone else. However they pay considerably more on a smaller jet than the bigger Q.. so they are no better than anyone else as the previous poster was trying to contend...
Oh and to the guy that wants all prop operators to fail because they get paid less.. I don't even know where to begin. Maybe if some succeeded we would see prop rates improve.. but the fact of the matter is as long as pilots see prop drivers as second rate(many do) companies will do the same. I however beleive props are likely the future of the airlines again and think we should support prop ops and helping get their rates up..
oh and by the way Horizon pays more on a smaller jet.. so don't laud them..