Post #1297287
2026-04-17 18:05 UTC
RE: https://disabled.social/@MikeImBack/116420391595617233
I'd like to share a few fun facts about this $30M private jet. . . . it would require a 50% runway length extension to takeoff from Toronto City Center Island Airport. It can't operate on the gravel runways in Northern communities like a Dash-8 can, which costs $26M less.
My brother lives 1,000km North in a fly-in community. That's a 1:15 travel time in this jet, and 1:30 travel time in a Dash-8. A round-trip would burn about $10,000 in gas for this jet, and about $6,000 for the Dash-8.
Replies (2)
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@oration@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 18:08
But, my brother's fly-in community's airport would have to double their runway length and also pave it.
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@z3r0fox@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 19:37
@oration Ahh, is this why he wants the island airport expanded