Pensacolaguy From United States, joined Sep 2004, 523 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 15722 times:
PRETTY! Can't wait to see this aircraft at PNS!
Have some questions, if anyone would care to answer....
-Will this aircraft operate from PHX or CLT or both?
-Have many passenger seats are on Mesa's CR9?
-How many CR9s does Mesa operate? (Any on Order?)
SonOfACaptain From United States, joined May 2004, 1747 posts, RR: 7 Reply 2, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 15654 times:
Very cool pics. I did not even know that a CR9 was going to the shop this soon.
SonOfACaptain From United States, joined May 2004, 1747 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 15625 times:
Quoting GSPITNL (Reply 3): Is this aircraft Ex-AW? I don't remember seeing CR9's in US Colors pre-merger.
LGA777 From United States, joined Jul 2003, 1004 posts, RR: 28 Reply 6, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 15570 times:
AV8RPHX, thanks for posting the news and photo's. Do you or anyone else on here know when further deliveries of CR9's to Mesa are scheduled as I would think any new deliveries would be in the new US scheme ?
CRJ900 From Norway, joined Jun 2004, 1653 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 15472 times:
Are the latest CR9s (and remaing 8 on order) delivered equipped with the Enhanced Performance Package or are they all the standard version? Will Mesa exercise any more options on the CR9?
Av8rPHX From United States, joined Mar 2003, 705 posts, RR: 13 Reply 12, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 15310 times:
Quoting FCYTravis (Reply 9): Are Mesa's "America West Express" flights still operated as "America West Express" or are they called US Airways Express now?
They are announced as "US Airways Express flight xxxx operated by America West Express as flight yyyy"
Quoting Pensacolaguy (Reply 1): Have some questions, if anyone would care to answer....
-Will this aircraft operate from PHX or CLT or both?
It all depends on the routing but I'd assume you'll see this a/c out east soon. I know this morning it is going PHX/MCI/PHX.
By the way.. for those of you curious.. the interior is still in AWA colors.
AviatorTJ From United States, joined Jul 2003, 1801 posts, RR: 13 Reply 15, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 14822 times:
Quoting Av8rPHX (Reply 12): They are announced as "US Airways Express flight xxxx operated by America West Express as flight yyyy"
Huh? I'm sure you are correct in saying this, but isn't that redundant? I could see US Airways Express operated by Mesa. But US Airways Express operated by America West Express? Aren't those "Express" names just 'covers' anyways?
Av8rPHX From United States, joined Mar 2003, 705 posts, RR: 13 Reply 16, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 14816 times:
Quoting AviatorTJ (Reply 15): Huh? I'm sure you are correct in saying this, but isn't that redundant? I could see US Airways Express operated by Mesa. But US Airways Express operated by America West Express? Aren't those "Express" names just 'covers' anyways?
Yeah its redundant and it just confuses already confused passengers, the poor folks can barely navigate the terminal, let alone trying to figure out what airline they are actually flying on now.
Flyboyaz From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 14721 times:
The America West Express name is still used in announcements because the flights are still primarily sold as HP flights. The US flights are only included in the announcements and sometime on the tickets if customers book it that way. The boarding passes have the HP number on it. In TUS our flight displays in the airport show both flight numbers. Until we merge our systems however, they will probably still be sold primarily with HP numbers. Yes people get confused. We are supposed to stop using "America West". When someone comes up to the counter I ask them if they are checking in for US Airways and they usually say..."No I'm on America West". hehe I just shrug and say "Yes you are in the right place."
JBo From Sweden, joined Jan 2005, 1603 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 14697 times:
The paint job looks great! Looks better than the Air Whiskey CRJs. The ZW birds have the grey stripes on the back too dark. This looks much better from the design standpoint.
Thumbs up Mesa.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
San747 From United States, joined Dec 2004, 3816 posts, RR: 12 Reply 20, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 14658 times:
Quoting FCYTravis (Reply 11): You'd better hope not. They're the most uncomfortable jets in the sky. 86-seat sardine cans.
I wouldn't agree... But maybe that's because when I flew ONT-LAS on a CRJ-900 in November, I had an entire row to myself for the first time in years! ...Not to mention it was about a 55 minute flight, but still...
Gigneil From United States, joined Nov 2002, 13883 posts, RR: 88 Reply 21, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 14587 times:
Quoting Navairjax (Reply 17): What's more confusing are the flights that are US routes that are now operated as HP routes due to the CR9 being brought out east.
Those flights are being operate for US by Mesa directly, not as HP routes.
AC773 From Canada, joined Nov 2005, 1730 posts, RR: 8 Reply 22, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 14567 times:
Quoting FCYTravis (Reply 11): You'd better hope not. They're the most uncomfortable jets in the sky. 86-seat sardine cans.
My experience has been a mixed bag. A couple of months ago I flew on a Mesa CR7 PDX-PHX. The padding was so thin, and the seats felt terrible. My rear end was alternating between feelings of pain and numbness. Last week was totally different. I flew on a CR2 PHL-DTW on ZW and found the seats to be quite comfortable.
Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all.
Geg2rap From United States, joined Sep 2003, 778 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 14452 times:
Quoting AC773 (Reply 22): My experience has been a mixed bag. A couple of months ago I flew on a Mesa CR7 PDX-PHX. The padding was so thin, and the seats felt terrible. My rear end was alternating between feelings of pain and numbness. Last week was totally different. I flew on a CR2 PHL-DTW on ZW and found the seats to be quite comfortable.
Couldn't have been a mesa, the CR7 are all in the united system. Maybe on a QX (I don't know if they fly CR7's on that route)
Your were prob on a CR9
Ewmahle From United States, joined Mar 2005, 109 posts, RR: 0 Reply 25, posted (3 years 9 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 14424 times:
I have not been to RDU in a while, so I do not know if they have started receiving flights from the CJ9s but I am booked on one RDU-CLT the first week in March, so if they had not made their way all the way east yet, they will be soon.
After the mereger is complete will they have held onto and repainted all of the CRJs or are they going to sell off some of them? I guess what I am asking is, are they going to have to many?
26 AviatorTJ: Still waiting for pictures to get accepted........
27 BMIFlyer: Looks good Thanks for the Heads up Lee
31 CRJ900: Great picture. The fuselage seems bigger (wider) with this paintscheme than other operators'... in my eyes, anyway
32 Flyboyaz: I love it..great picture. The color scheme looks super on the CR9.
33 AC773: Yes, my mistake. It was a CR9 for Mesa/America West Express.
34 FlyBoy84: I know for a fact that it will operate flights to CLT as I will be on one (STL-CLT) on 2.11.06 on my way to TPA! Hopefully, it will sport the new cor
36 Tornado82: They should look dinky in comparison, they seat 1/2 the pax in the case of the 135.
37 A340Spotter: So what's the rotation Tuesday and Wednesday for 956LR? Anyone in the US/HP/ASH family care to advise? Thanks...
38 HPLASOps: 956LR was painted in Cactus colors for awhile, one of the newest CR9s in the fleet. I just took an HPx LAS-SAN flight, and the flight attendents were
39 CRJ900: Do the newer Mesa CR9s come with a plug insert where the RH-side rear cabin service door is located or has Mesa just abandoned the extra door option a
40 Av8rPHX: If I have time I will try to check the routing of this aircraft. Its hit or miss... most of the original Freedom Jets (902-908) have it, although the
41 MtnWest1979: Wife and I flew PHX-SAT on one some time ago,row 1, talk about cramped. Plus no 'area under seat in front of me' to stretch out legs. It was tight.
42 ERAUgrad02: We get 5 CR9's from ILM-CLT. They pulled all our 733's for the winter. Word isa aklot of them are going back to creditors. We're to get A319/320's in
43 SonOfACaptain: US did get rid of about 60 737's, and that is probably what you are talking about. All of them have already been taken out of service and found a new
44 ERAUgrad02: yes. alot of customers here are upset the 737's are gone. we got 6 737-300/-400's a day at peak banks to CLT. Word is the big jets of some type b737/
45 Flyboyaz: I got to fly on 956 with the new colors the other night. It looks REALLY sharp in the scheme. I've flown on these planes many many times, and I find t
46 Av8rPHX: Hey flyboyaz, how did you like our TUS downgrades a couple weeks ago? Im sure you guys loved that down there
47 Flyboyaz: Haha...I don't know...wasn't there when there were any. The flights have been pretty light so it probably wasn't a big deal
48 NY-JFK-LGA: Any 170s getting the new colors anytime soon? They'd look really nice.
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