Aviation Appreciation Station v2

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by greyshep

Any idea why? Storage?

Storage until they are certified to fly again. Air Canada also has a bunch of theirs at the same airport.

[Bigtime]

This would have been one heck of a ride:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1230946451242373120

[Fuzz]

Ya, I thought everyone knew to be careful for those primary vertically-propagating lee wave breaks in the lower stratosphere. Nasty stuff.

[Bigtime]

Kyle likes to use the fancy words instead of just saying "IT'S WINDY AND BUMPY!"

[stazzy33]

Does that +/- 500 ft mean the plane was dropping up and down that much in seconds? Yikes....

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Kyle likes to use the fancy words instead of just saying "IT'S WINDY AND BUMPY!"

I guess that's what we were taught as "Marked Mountain Waves"

[Bigtime]

Jeebus Boeing, get it together:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1231046862402179073

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Jeebus Boeing, get it together:

https://apnews.com/84be1490f98bbefca9e8efa7b05ccff2

Although debris hasn’t been linked to those crashes, metal shavings, tools and other objects left in planes during assembly

I mean, metal shavings and the like I can understand as something that would happen over the course of operation as the result of a defect. But tools?!

[GGG]

It’s very common it’s piping assembly for O+G for their to be all kinds of crap left behind. Wrenches, clamps, bolts, nuts, welding rods, rags. So it’s not surprising that this occurs in airplane manufacturing.

[Bigtime]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1237779074988244993

[Bigtime]

Air Canada has cancelled 11 MAX 9 orders:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1237780769935785984

[BlackArcher101]

https://theaviationist.com/2020/03/0...r-last-flight/

Didn't realize there were still phantoms in service, but that paint scheme is awesome.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Air Canada has cancelled 11 MAX 9 orders:

Presumably they still need aircraft which makes you wonder:
1. what they will replace these 11 aircraft with
2. what their long term plans are for the rest of their Max fleet

[Acey]

An A321neo order is increasingly rumoured and likely, for the life of me I can't find a link to AC's Q4 report but they've already received an initial comp payment from Boeing with more coming, and they're waiting till Q3; if MAX isn't flying by then they'll start making fleet plans.

[Bigtime]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1238526210260508672

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Hmmm my credit requests for some WJ flights were processed today. I had requested these back to my Visa, but they've placed them back in my travel bank. Is this a standard WJ thing right now to preserve cash flow? I'm hoping to call them at a later date to rectify.

They also forgot to credit me for my companion passes...

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Hmmm my credit requests for some WJ flights were processed today. I had requested these back to my Visa, but they've placed them back in my travel bank. Is this a standard WJ thing right now to preserve cash flow? I'm hoping to call them at a later date to rectify.

They also forgot to credit me for my companion passes...

From their website:

For flights booked before March 3, 2020 for travel in March or April 2020:
$0 one-time fee waiver for changes or cancellations
Change or cancellation must be requested at least 2 hours prior to departure
Value of cancelled flights will be returned as a credit to your Travel Bank

[I-Hate-Hulse]

That's interesting. They seem to have added this to the above section of their policies since: "We are not processing refunds to original form of payment at this time."

Last week the option to pay the $120 change fee (per ticket) was still being offered to get a full refund back to your original payment card. For me that would have meant paying $480 (4 tickets) to get my $3K back - a trade I would have made.

I get this as a self-preservation measure for them, but hopefully they will also consider full refunds when things calm down.... Guests need cash too.

[Ryan Coke]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

....but hopefully they will also consider full refunds when things calm down.... Guests need cash too.

I believe this is this case.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

That's interesting. They seem to have added this to the above section of their policies since: "We are not processing refunds to original form of payment at this time."

Last week the option to pay the $120 change fee (per ticket) was still being offered to get a full refund back to your original payment card. For me that would have meant paying $480 (4 tickets) to get my $3K back - a trade I would have made.

I get this as a self-preservation measure for them, but hopefully they will also consider full refunds when things calm down.... Guests need cash too.

It is an awful move by WestJet to not provide refunds and instead provide a credit. But until they start receiving a significant amount of bad press about this I doubt they will do anything. Bad press is usually the driving factor for them to do the right thing.