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Re: 738's transatlantic?

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heathrow wrote:I was reading someones comments on Airliners.net, and someone said they were flying non-stop from DAL-ANC. This is 7.5 hours long. Then the topic arose, could a 737-800 go across the atlantic? What do you guys think? Personally, I think it would be a great market for low cost cariers like ryanair, and easyjet. http://www.airliners.net/discussions/ge ... n/2019211/ read for yourself
Equidistant are almost
DAL ANC = 4911 km 6:04 and
DUB BOS = 4816 km 5:57
EDI BOS = 4939 km 6:06 @ an avg speed of 810kmh
If that 737-800 of yours needs 07:30 to get in ANC from DAL, it looks like making a stop somewhere, heathrow?
If that 737-800 flies @730kmh avg, it would need 06:44 still 3/4 of an hour less than 07:30. What calculations are made for that trip?

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Here is a 737 Range Chart from Boston: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/737fam ... nical.html

A 738 can make it from Boston to London and Paris with no problem. Now the real question is, would any pax want to fly on a 738 transatlantic?
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It doesn't make sense for an airlines to fly BOS-CDG or BOS-LHR with a narrow body. But a route like BOS-Secondary european big towns can works (MAN, GLA, BHX, HAM, BOD, LYS...).

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Okay sounds nice to me but transatalantic on a (probably with Ryanair) full pax 738!!!!!
Sorry but 3 of even 4 hours sounds nice to me but 7 up to maybe 9 hours including a needed fuel stop is going to be a little uncomfortable I think. But hey with 130 seats in a 737-800 things get a lot better :)

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HorsePower wrote:But a route like BOS-Secondary european big towns can works (MAN, GLA, BHX, HAM, BOD, LYS...).
Those routes are ideally suited for, and often operated by, a B757
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Post by Curious »

What is the distance From New York to London?

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Curious wrote:What is the distance From New York to London?
The distance between JFK and LHR is 5554km

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in other words for us amerloques ya ok fine americans its about 3451 miles

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Thanks Guys

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Post by heathrow »

But wait. If you are going to fly LON-NYC, aren't you going to do something like LGW-LGA, or LHR-LGA? Centeral to centeral?

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