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Anyone here fly Convair 440 Metropolitans?



 
 
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Old November 20th 04, 10:08 PM
G.R. Patterson III
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Jay Honeck wrote:

Nowadays, you can't have that -- for ANY price. The service just doesn't
exist.


The service only existed at that time because the government forced airlines to
provide service on some legs at a loss in order to obtain the rights to the more
profitable portions of a route. The service doesn't exist now because nobody can
break even, much less make a profit on those legs.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.
 




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