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Delta Connection ( Skywest ) CRJ-700 In HKG?

dlatl37 From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 27 posts, RR: 0
Posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 8294 times:

Anyone know why a Delta Connection ( Skywest ) CRJ-700 registered as C-GIBR was at HKG ? What plane is that ?

A few photos have popped up on other sites.

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amccann From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 171 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 8073 times:

My guess is that if the CRJ-700 in question still has a Canadian registry (C-) then the aircraft has not yet been delivered to the customer (Skywest). This leads me to believe that Bombardier is displaying the aircraft to potential Chinese / Hong Kong customers. Of course, this is all speculation.

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bmibaby737 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1635 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 7966 times:

It was originally meant to become JA08RJ with Ibex, so maybe it had to fly to Asia for paperwork reasons (maybe to sell the aircraft?) and has now been delivered to Skywest and opf Delta Air Lines.

You can find the aircrafts information by typing in N631SK to Planespotters.net

MaddogJT8D From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 350 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 7619 times:

If the aircraft that is over in HKG is N631SK, I can tell you that it is not a new delivery. I flew N631SK LAX-SFO on 12/2 and so it had been in pax service with Skywest for a little while. The ship was pretty new, I think less than 3 months old. I wonder what it's doing in HKG then...

bmibaby737 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1635 posts, RR: 10
Reply 4, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 7515 times:

Quoting MaddogJT8D (Reply 3):
If the aircraft that is over in HKG is N631SK, I can tell you that it is not a new delivery. I flew N631SK LAX-SFO on 12/2 and so it had been in pax service with Skywest for a little while. The ship was pretty new, I think less than 3 months old. I wonder what it's doing in HKG then...

I believe the thread starter is asking why C-GIBR (N631SK) was in HKG in *August 2011*

wingnutmn From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 585 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 7312 times:

Does it have anything to do with ASA and their Mekong Airlines adventure?

Wingnut

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as739x From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 5818 posts, RR: 23
Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 7179 times:

Quoting wingnutmn (Reply 5):

Nope. Those aircraft come completely from the ASA fleet and Air Mekong is -900's, not -700's

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KingAir200 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 1579 posts, RR: 2
Reply 7, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 7034 times:

I would almost certainly bet it was a Bombardier demo. They used one of XJ's CR9s for their display at the Dubai Air Show in 2007.

Hey Swifty

super80 From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 133 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4928 times:

I want to see the pictures. Where can I see them ?

virginblue4 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2008, 829 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4010 times:

Quoting bmibaby737 (Reply 4):
I believe the thread starter is asking why C-GIBR (N631SK) was in HKG in *August 2011*

Sorry if I am missing something, but where did he say anything about August?

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AV8AJET From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1265 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 2741 times:

N631SK was flying in/out of SLC today.

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CRJ900X From Canada, joined Dec 2006, 189 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 2017 times:

If memory serves me correctly, Bombardier leased the aircraft from SkyWest to showcase the capability of the aircraft to Garuda Indonesia back in August. Considering Garuda is evaluating the EMB-190 and CRJ1000, I am not sure why Bombardier did not dispatch the CRJ1000, but I am pretty sure that the aircraft stopped in Hong Kong on the demonstration flight in Jakarta.

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