The flight sub is not to test for maintenance as that would be done without passengers as per law, most likely they planned this sub as the fastest way to get the aircraft back in rotation at YYC on its normal routes, or they needed more seats on that flight so would make sense to put the plane on t...
Jump to postof topic but there was one time only that cabotage rules were waived that i can remember in the USA and that was after Hurricane Katrina where George W Bush suspended Cabotage rules to Allow Air Canada to fly route in and out of New Orleans to transport relief workers in and affected people out to o...
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Jump to postRumours always spread like wildfire in the industry. So I doubt this true either
Jump to postActually per space the original ac hanger can hold more planes at once, during the strike in 98 air Canada put 7 planes into their hanger in yvr. Max for the content hanger in one spot is 5. But yes using the whole cp hanger you can put a more aircraft
Jump to postOr like an airline in Canada make all buddies fly with the employee u less they are their kids.
Jump to postthe air frame design may be 40 years old but even the dc-9-30's were relatively fuel efficient up to the mid 2000's. The B717 has new engines, new computer systems.
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these are on top of orders for an additional 5 B777-300ER's Air Canada has with Boeing, not sure when the 5 B77W's will be delivered though.
ok i did not realize that, I guess the A320's will be polished metal then
Jump to postAmerican A300's were painted Grey. I wonder if AA will change their paint scheme with the intro of the A320's or will they paint them grey like the A300's
Jump to postActually I think it isn cheaper to fly them in the <acronym title="Air Atlanta Icelandic (Iceland)">CC</acronym>-150 as the forces would still have to pay for the pilots to get fly time anyhow, just think renting a plane from Air Canada or Westjet and still have to pay for the cc-150 fly. 2 birds st...
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Jump to postcould it be another species replying to our radio signals? hmmmmmmmmmm
Jump to postyou guys realize there are i believe 4 other E-4B's that i have heard the president fly's on mainly when there isn't a need for Press arrivals, or carrying press with them, and that they are more capable for the mission of Air Command. so it would be 6 planes needing replacement possibly. Oh and btw...
Jump to postBut what many forget is that when Canada bought the C17 boeing agreed and did put every cent in the contract back into the Canadian economy through defense contracts and stuff, so while Canada paid Boeing for the aircraft Boeing put all the money back into Canada, so if Airbus did win i am sure that...
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Jump to postwe are probably talking like 10 years from now so who knows, right now the E175/190 (the latter mainly) is replaceing some of the A319's and A320's.
Jump to postWell a little off topic but also sorta on topic, back when Ansett Australia went under QANTAS didn't have the planes to fly the added capacity they needed. Well instead of waiting for more aircraft (they needed them right then) and being right after 9/11 they made a deal with Air Canada to Wet Lease...
Jump to postok i can't keep this i only put this up as the funniest romour i heard, even the pilot i talked to doesn't believe it
Jump to postWestjet. Yep you heard right i was talking to a horizon pilot and he has heasrd that Southwest wants to take over Westjet...................What are your thoughts.
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Jump to postNo turbo-props are not covered they could oreder the Q400 and not worry about that, just jets.
Jump to postin <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> EVA uses 2 b ridges ion their B747's, the other day they even waited for a double bridge to become available instead of changing gates to a single gate (prior airline was delayed outbound) Also Westje...
Jump to posti've also heard that at least a couple B747's have disappeared the same way, no record, nothing just disappeared in China.
Jump to postAdd Air Canada and United Airlines that have Anti-Trust Imunity and before American and Canadian had it, they had it before AC and UA.
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Jump to postwell look how fast russia backed down when canada reciprocated Air Canada's ban on using russian airspace, Aeroflot had to fy around canada to get to the west coast of the USA costing millions, soon after the ban on aeroflot from canadian airspace russia backed down and allowed ac access at fair pri...
Jump to postAt Air Canada i have been on a flight yul-yvr with a stop in yyz and we were not allowed off the plane if transiting to yvr which I was
Jump to postik flew on them many times with Air Canada whenas a kid and also later when AC brought them back from the desert in the early-mid 90's
Jump to postBE1 (Name Boeing ses for first flight for testing of aircraft prior to delivery) of the first Air Canada B777 is Sunday March 18th, 2007 this according to my guide when i was at the boeing plant on Wedesday (yesturday)
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Jump to postthey would just break it up in ams if they were going to i believe
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Jump to postthe landing gear and the Tail would have needed re-designing, just look at the tail of the non-stretched DC-8's they look too big for the size of aircraft, Douglas did that in mind of future stretches of the aircraft
Jump to postBoeing's site says the N777LR can auto take off but only uses the Flight director (the computer that moves the surfaces), but i believe no country allows that yet.
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Jump to postthe seats would be assigned at check in i would think not at the gate
Jump to postWhat if the aircraft in question is a Power By the Hour Lease ie the airline only pays when the plane is flying the leaser don't get a cent if it is sitting on the ground. I have heard of an Airline having a few aircraft under this arrangement. The only costs the airline would have to pay is to the ...
Jump to postwhy would they need an APU, most likely they will just Air Start it from the ground
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Jump to postok so if Continental buys United and Continental is the suriving name wouldn't <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> still get the athorities United has? Isn't that how United got <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> and the Pacific Routes ...
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