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RJ's F28 Fleet

TurkishWings From United States of America, joined May 2006, 1408 posts, RR: 9
Posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 969 times:

Hi everyone,

I was just looking for flights between AMM and Aqaba and realized that the evening flight is operated by a Fokker 28. But the RJ website does not mention any Fokkers in their "fleet" section.

Where do these planes come from? Do they belong to a subsidary or something?

Thanks

Coffee - Tea or Me?

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MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6242 posts, RR: 51
Reply 1, posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 954 times:

Not sure where they come from, but it looks like they use either 4 or 6 of them (one of the two)....and they fly them with either a Y68 or a J8Y60 configuration. It looks like they have been flying for RJ since late '06/early '07.

PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11144 posts, RR: 63
Reply 2, posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 944 times:

The Fokkers are operated by AirQuarius Aviation with South African crews. All I can say is fly it, a great experience! Big grin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirQuarius_Aviation

Dan Smile

RJAF From Jordan, joined Jan 2007, 301 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 848 times:

The main reason RJ wet-leased the F-28s was for its Iraq operations. As hull war insurance rates are charged as a percentage of hull values, RJ couldn't afford to then operate the Dash-8 (valued at USD 14M) as the additional war premium would eat up all the profits. The F-28s are insured for only USD 1M hull value and thus command a much smaller additional premium and can thus make the flights profitable (and quite handsomley!).

Chance favors the prepared mind

Viasa From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 1813 posts, RR: 7
Reply 4, posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 794 times:

RJ has replace one of the two Fokker F28 with another F28.

Now they have ZS-JES and ZS-XGW in use. Not sure for how long, because RJ has the Embraer E175 on order and the first will deliver to AMM very soon.

TurkishWings From United States of America, joined May 2006, 1408 posts, RR: 9
Reply 5, posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 768 times:

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 2):
The Fokkers are operated by AirQuarius Aviation with South African crews. All I can say is fly it, a great experience! Big grin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirQuarius_Aviation

Dan Smile

Well I am not really as adventureous as you man.. I don't feel safe in every aircraft (by that I mean I would avoid a 732 or a 727 at all costs). Should I be concerned about these little birds? Smile

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