France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by cheerlessbog on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:00AM (#20399252)

They have two Curtiss C-46 from 1945. Its interesting that its cheaper to continue to pay for the maintenance and fuel than lease something more modern.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by TylerE on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:24AM (#20399346)

Replacements don’t exist. Those old prop liners can operate off unimproved dirt strips, grass, even snow and ice - and off short runways too.

Jets don’t like that.

For back country missions the only thing maybe better than a DC-3 is a Basler... and that is a modernized DC-3 with reinforcements and turboprops for more power. They suck a lot more fuel than a plain DC3 though, which can be problematic as some of these fields they have to fly fuel in.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by goatinaboat on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:45AM (#20401004)

A C130 should be a viable modern alternative for those use cases, if economic

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by TylerE on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:17AM (#20402138)

A fully loaded DC-3 can takeoff in just over 2000ft. A C-130 needs almost 4000ft.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by JAlexoid on Friday July 12, 2019 @02:07PM (#20422932)

There are no small planes that can replace DC-3. C-130 is massive!

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