Last July I wrote about Surinam Airways' fascinating flight between Paramaribo and Amsterdam. The airline has a single A340-300 that they use for their long haul flights, as they fly several times a week between the two cities. The route makes sense, given the Dutch ties, and Surinam Airways isn’t even the only airline to…
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The A340 and 777-200ER burn pretty much the same amount of fuel The A340 burns less than a liter per hour more.The thing that makes the A340 less cost effective is the fact that a 772 can carry between 1-2 more rows of passengers, making it more efficient.
They’ve been wanting to fly twin jets for the transatlantic route for decades, but the problem is that they should have an ETOPS certification for that, and this airline has been a government owned organizational mess that would never meet the audit requirements for ETOPS. But it seems like they actually think they can make it happen it this time. Let’s wait and see!
If only you hadn't recently flown on KLM, it would have been an interesting route to compare between the 2 airlines. I mean, I guess you technically could still do it...
I thought something looked odd here. In English, don’t we spell the name of the airline’s flagger with an ‘e’ at the end, as in Suriname? It even comes up this way in spellcheck.
I didn’t realize that it’s spelled differently in Dutch. Interesting.
But then so is calling people ‘Dutch’ when they live in Holland, I mean the Netherlands...
This is one of the few occasions I genuinely prefer a Boeing model of various configurations over an Airbus.
I do not like how low the curvature on the walls of the a340 starts, it is already coming inwards at the window level. I wish they had made that plane a bit taller and wider inside.
The 777 is more boxy and roomy like a genuine wide body inside and although not a superjumbo it is the next best thing today.
I flew the “new” 77 from Auckland to Honolulu on Air New Zealand in April 2019, as NZ still has 789’s out of service after a full 13 months!
It has the SQ livery with the titles removed and the Business Class seats are huge but with ancient IFE and lumpy, worn out surfaces.
That was still more comfortable than the shrunken version of the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Suite that Air NZ uses on its 789 fleet, but the IFE wouldn’t work and the airline ended up compensating all passengers.
I hope that Suriname Airways understand what they are acquiring!