Distance to airports

tomcatsburg · Post by **tomcatsburg** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:48 pm

Hi all,

I don't know if you've already heard this idea, but this suddenly came up into my mind.

One of my pilots made a flight from EHAM to EHRD. That is a flight from 24 nautical miles, and took 11 minutes.

There were 120 passengers onboard(Boeing 738).
120 passengers!! They should better take the train, that is shorter(no checking in etc.), and much cheaper.

I think it isn't realistic that on such a short flight, there are 120 passengers onboard.
Ok, it's nice for the money, but I think the distance and time of the flight should affect the number of passengers.

Tom.

Post by **joefremont** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:55 pm

I tend to agree with you, for that short of a distance very few would by tickets for that. But the airport were on an island (think Jersey or the Hawaiian islands) where there were no direct roads or trains it would be more plausible. Also if the flight was continuing to other destinations, a lot of passengers will stay on the aircraft and continue to some father away destination.

These are not things we have solutions for yet, but we are thinking about it.

Post by **Safari Air** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:59 am

Why are you flying domestic in the netherlands? (just thought i'd ask that)

tomcatsburg · Post by **tomcatsburg** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:45 pm

that pilot likes to fly to rotterdam. I don't know why.

After that he went to Barcelona, the same route as he used to fly with Transavia.

JamesMc · Post by **JamesMc** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:19 pm

Safari Air wrote:Why are you flying domestic in the netherlands? (just thought i'd ask that)

This has me curious. Do they not fly domestic flights in the Netherlands?

Post by **Safari Air** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:47 pm

no point, flights take max. 20 mins
Netherlands is a small country

tomcatsburg · Post by **tomcatsburg** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:48 pm

Yes, they do. But at a very small scale, because the Netherlands ain't that big

Post by **joefremont** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:22 pm

I would think it would take less time to drive from one side of the Netherlands to the other than to get to the airport and go through airport security.

tomcatsburg · Post by **tomcatsburg** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:47 pm

most of the time: yes!

Maybe from EHAM Schiphol to EHBK Maastricht/Aachen would take about the same time... but flying is more expensive.

But KLM Cityhopper flies this route.