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   From: drmayr@btinternet.com   
      
   "Joe Curry"  wrote in message   
   news:2005020618504366937@zetnet.co.uk...   
   > The message    
   > from Adrian Tupper  contains these words:   
   >   
   >> 27 aircraft is quite a lot I would have thought.  (compare with   
   >> flyglobespan).  But their network is really very extensive   
   >> now and all those jetstreams must be kept busy.   
   >   
   > Eastern could actually fly EDI to a few Euro capitals with the Jetstream   
   > 41,   
   >   
   > Range: nearly 700 nautical miles with full payload including reserves..   
   >   
   > I wonder what's holding them back.?   
   >   
      
      
   Probably the fact that passengers do not want to fly in 1960s turboprop   
   designs for more than an hour.  From memory the last serious attempt was the   
   HS748 operation from Glasgow to Brussels and Frankfurt which sadly did not   
   prove sucessful.   
      
   Doug   
      
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