Back to the long (narrow) bus route topic. AC runs seasonal Vancouver-Miami and Toronto-Port of Spain runs which clock in at a good 5-5 1/2 hours with an A319. Every time I chat with my grandfather, 82 years old, it blows him away that a plane with a wing span and length of 100 ft each can take off and fly for 6 hours and land on a little itty-bitty runway... and charge a passenger a few hundred bucks for the privilege. A far cry from the beastly Merlin powered Lancaster's of WWII. Mind you, we've almost reached the stage where you can buy a plane, off the shelf, from Boeing or Airbus, and take off from any point on the earth and reach any other point on the earth in one shot. How close are we? Matthew On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:12 PM, Bryant Petitt wrote: > ...Atlanta paper today reports, yes, A319'a will be > painted in AirTran livery.... > > RT, look at yer map, PHX-CUN ain't THAT far, much > shorter than many of HP's routes..... > > Bryant Petitt > Cumming, GA > > --- RT Simpson <BraniffIntl@aol.com> wrote: >> In a message dated 3/3/03 10:31:24 PM US Mountain >> Standard Time, >> bahadiracuner@yahoo.com writes: >> >> >>> Very very smart move from AirTran. This is like >> testing the market. If it >>> doesn't work they can call Ryan and say "sorry". >> If it does, you can bet >>> that the "longer range" aircraft will come from >> Hamburg. >>> >>> BTW, Alaska also announced they are adding Orlando >> to their destinations. I >>> am a big fan of discount airlines adding coast to >> coast flights and bigger >>> fan of Airbus equipment on those routes. >>> >> >> Not exactly coast to coast..but almost. On Monday >> America West announced >> non-stop service from Phoenix to Cancun, Mexico >> beginning in June. The >> equipment? A319. >> >> And speaking of Atlanta, sounds like a feeding >> frenzy with AirTran and >> JetBlue offering left coast service from the once >> mighty fortress of Delta! >> >> >> RT Simpson >> Phoenix > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >