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AFV335 First Officer, B747-400 Joined on August 04 2010 SA 63 legs, 94.6 hours 61 legs, 91.4 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on August 19 2010 02:05 ET by Mathieu Vidal
	Hi, Just a quick question, when looking for KLM flights using the 737 all the flights that come up are for the 737-700. As far as i know (i may be wrong about this) KLM has a large fleet of 737-800 that travel all aroud europe and i think that all the flights on the schedule are meant to be flown with 737-800 and not the 737-700. No biggie, just thought i'd mention this here to see if the person responsible for the schedule can change the info accordingly. Cheers
AFV064 Senior Captain, A220-3(CSeries) Joined on April 20 2006 Online Century Club International Tourist Double Century Club "BAFD, our experience saves lives" Howell, MI USA 255 legs, 1,315.4 hours 184 legs, 929.2 hours online 251 legs, 1,279.7 hours ACARS 3 legs, 9.1 hours event 304 legs, 1,416.0 hours total 0 legs dispatched, 1.1 hours	Posted onPost created on August 19 2010 07:38 ET by Steve Orloff
	Good catch! The problem with adjusting the schedule like that is that we have a company called Innovata that supplies all of our route data, which includes the aircraft flown on those routes. The only way to adjust it would be to have a list of flights that the 738 is the equipment type on and manually change them. Because KLM also operates the 737-700, we'd have to be sure that we don't change those legs. If you can get me a list of all 738 legs, I would be more than happy to change the schedule manually.
AFV262 Senior Captain, B747-400 E-MAIL Joined on October 02 2008 International Tourist 50 State Club B737 Century Club Diplomatic Mission Robert Taylor AF Memorial Club "If I aint working, I'm Flying!" Farnborough, Hampshire UK 691 legs, 2,148.4 hours 2 legs, 1.2 hours online 662 legs, 2,067.6 hours ACARS 7 legs, 26.9 hours event 811 legs, 2,468.5 hours total	Posted onPost created on August 19 2010 15:54 ET by Robert Taylor AF
	Good Luck with that! Unfortuneatly, KLM has the tendendcy to match the flight with demand rather than a system. for example, if they have 160 pax going to heathrow then they'll wack a -900 on, yet same flight the next day may only have 130 pax going, so they'll put a -700 on, also, they still have a few -300/-400's flying around. I'll do some digging arouns and get some comfirmed routes that use only one type but dont expect that list to be long.... If you look at most of KLM mainline fleet timetables it has EQV rather than a proper type. EQV = Equipment Varies! I'll get back to you on this
AFV335 First Officer, B747-400 Joined on August 04 2010 SA 63 legs, 94.6 hours 61 legs, 91.4 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on August 20 2010 01:17 ET by Mathieu Vidal
	No prob, thanks for the response! I was just asking, not a big deal! I just like taking my PMDG 737 out from time to time and KLM seems to be the only big operator in Europe. Thanks

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