It's a CRJ700 but configured with 50 seats rather than 70. 10 first/business class, 20 economy plus, and 20 economy. It also has several luggage closets and large bins to eliminate the need for gate checked baggage.
Seems like a neat idea.
However knowing the economics for the CRJ200 are fairly poor, would the economics of the CRJ550 be much better?
United is betting on getting more international business travel commencing at the regional airports (and flipping the first/last leg of the journey from cramped economy to luxury first).
This makes me wonder if a jet like this could work in the now lacking 50 seat category in Canada.
Perhaps its immediacy bias, as my local airport went from 4-5 Dash 8 flights to/from Halifax a day on Air Canada to 2 on a Q400. This renders the schedule horrific as you can either leave in the morning to get your connections west, fly overnight on the way home to make the morning/afternoon Atlantic time, or spending n extra night in a hotel.
Could the 550 make sense for Air Canada's regional partners? Would airports like Medicine Hat, London and Sydney benefit from this while still making economic sense for AC?
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Canada needs a 37-50 seat regional workhorse, and the movement is away from that with the Q400's essentially replacing the Dash 8-100 and -300 series aircraft.
Heck, I'd be happy with the CRJ200 shuttling back and forth but I don't think the economics are there.
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This is really cool, Garmin is rolling out a new system called Autonomi which will feature an Autoland feature if a pilot becomes incapacitated. It can activate automatically if the system determines the pilot is not responding or can be activated by passengers with the push of a button.
Qantas is operating their second "Project Sunrise" flight right now, from London to Sydney. Flight started 15 hours ago, still have about 4 hours to go. Being operated by a 787-9.
727 on final at Mogadishu, light aircraft that landed ahead hasn't cleared the runway. No problem, we'll just bust out a low level 360 and then land...
How old are WestJets 767-300 planes? We just took one on the return flight from Mexico on the weekend and it seemed like a blast from the past. But it seems via googling they got them in 2015?
They're older, but that was the plan. Get some old wide bodies to test the market and then purchase new ones (the 787s) if the business plan worked out.
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They're older, but that was the plan. Get some old wide bodies to test the market and then purchase new ones (the 787s) if the business plan worked out.
I was sort of shocked to see the smoking trays in the bathroom!
727 on final at Mogadishu, light aircraft that landed ahead hasn't cleared the runway. No problem, we'll just bust out a low level 360 and then land...
Okay the last two paragraphs in the article is just comedy gold
“KLM is, of course, not alone in having to turn planes around for peculiar reasons. In September it emerged that an aircraft with 337 passengers, bound for Cancun from Frankfurt, was diverted to Shannon, Ireland, after the pilot spilled coffee on a control panel.
Other aircraft have had plans altered by strong aromas emanating from the toilet, disruptive passengers, and swarms of bees.”
Okay the last two paragraphs in the article is just comedy gold
“KLM is, of course, not alone in having to turn planes around for peculiar reasons. In September it emerged that an aircraft with 337 passengers, bound for Cancun from Frankfurt, was diverted to Shannon, Ireland, after the pilot spilled coffee on a control panel.
Other aircraft have had plans altered by strong aromas emanating from the toilet, disruptive passengers, and swarms of bees.”
I was in Toronto last year and a flight near where I was sitting was delayed due to bees in the cargo hold. Even if they said they fully cleared them out, I'd still be a little nervous getting on that flight afterwards!
Human comfort aside, bees can also have a negative affect on aircraft. I follow this channel on Youtube, this dude owns/flies a small business jet. The linked episode below has a story of bees causing over $400k US damage to one of the engines on his plane. Skip to about the 27 minute mark.
Human comfort aside, bees can also have a negative affect on aircraft. I follow this channel on Youtube, this dude owns/flies a small business jet. The linked episode below has a story of bees causing over $400k US damage to one of the engines on his plane. Skip to about the 27 minute mark.
During my flight instructor days I ended up with a big bee in our Cessna 172 as the student and I were doing circuits (practicing takeoff and landing) at Springbank. It just sprang up into our faces from the dash of the plane, number one rule kicked in for me despite the unexpectedness of it all: Keep flying the plane. Eventually the bee settled down again on the dash and we did a full landing and taxied off the runway and let the bee out.
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