Looks like Flair won't be getting the Lynx leases, the latest lynx court report says the lessors won't consent to assignment of those leases, so any deal for those planes will have to be with the lessors under under terms. http://cfcanada.fticonsulting.com/lynxair/docs/Affidavit%20of%20Michael%20Wo...
Jump to postAnd yet, still operating - at least today. Nine lives. We’ll see if they have any left after the next payroll. Looks like a mess. Most airlines when they go they do so without warning like Lynx did. You wake up and then they are gone. Poof. This one however is beyond dramatic.....and fascinating to...
Jump to postAviationanalysi wrote:
What failed airlines have the Deluces run before?
Two things can exist at once -- Lynx having a flawed business plan can exist alongside high structural costs/taxes making market entry/growth and low fares difficult to achieve. Given the structural costs and taxes apply to all participants in the market, that leaves the business plan as the differ...
Jump to postI'm not sure why my posts keep getting removed, but the gist of the article is that Canada doesn't have an import tax on aircraft, just GST that gets reimbursed to corporations. The author argues that the amount Flair owes to the CRA is due to them claiming the reimbursement, without having ever pa...
Jump to postPer CCAA filings, Lynx signed a term sheet for a sale transaction on February 21 and will request court approval to proceed. I wonder who the buyer is now? Interestingly, there are no assets, liabilities or obligations disclosed related to 31 aircraft left in their Boeing purchase agreement. Wait a...
Jump to postSome internal chatter within the company that Lynx/Indigo partners will acquire Flair. Would be interesting if it materializes, the assumption across the industry was that someone would disappear / merge I don't think Lynx (Indigo) would touch that with a 200 foot pole, IMO. Probably no one will to...
Jump to postWhat I'd really love to see are both the original "Canadian Pacific" script lettering scheme of the 50s/60s, and the orange and silver CP Air scheme as retro liveries on a couple of aircraft. Beech Except the trademark rights to Canadian Pacific and CP Air don't belong to AC. Or, at least...
Jump to postDLASFlyer wrote:matt wrote:DLASFlyer wrote:
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Yes but the folks in Atlanta just said Newfoundland.
I thought all the 787's were staying in YYC. The exact verbiage in the MOU is "all intercontinental 787 flying is to be based from YYC", hence the Mexico flying. Onex must be getting quite the financial lift from the Alberta Government to accept such a condition in the MOU in the part of ...
Jump to postI've always lived by the rule of thumb that "all crashes are accidents/incidents, but not all accidents/incidents are crashes". Now we just need to define "crash". I've seen someone debate that an aircraft touching-down short of the runway and causing significant but not catastr...
Jump to post30 years ago, think about how much more prevalent smoking was than today. For better or worse smokers were usually thinner. 30 years ago we did not have sandwiches for every meal, we ate far fewer carbs, 1/4 of the salt, god knows how much less sugar. We also had far fewer preservatives & other...
Jump to postThe AED’s onboard aircraft will only deliver shocks if ventricular fibrillation or very rapid ventricular tachycardia is detected. God Speed to the FA✨ Yes, our ideas of resuscitation have been too informed by TV dramas as opposed to first-aid training. If the heart is completely stopped, shock def...
Jump to postEspecially considering AC has gone from 29 inches to 30 inches on the refurbished Rouge A321's. As the smaller A32X either leave the fleet or get refurbished (the A320's) it would makes sense that they also see a standardisation to 30 inches. Going to 28 inches really devalues WS when compared to i...
Jump to postThe reason this is coming up now is that reportedly the government issued a notice under the Canada Transportation Act requiring WestJet to repay the amount last Saturday: https://www.westernstandard.news/business/sunwing-owes-over-300-million-to-taxpayers/article_8a209a76-d796-11ed-8a01-af52d977cc...
Jump to post... There are about 200 good days and about 165 not so good days a year for airlines in Canada. It’s easy to make money those good 200 days a year. It’s exceedingly difficult to figure out how not to blow your brains out the other 165 days. Therein lies the challenge for O&D ULCC’s; indeed all ...
Jump to postIntent is quite relevant in civil cases. Flair is alleging Airborne acted at the behest of a competitor. I’m not sure how they prove this, but if Airborne was cooperative when there were much larger defaults and then acted when there was a smaller amount outstanding for a shorter period of time bec...
Jump to postWhere are the aircraft being marketed? How can a lessor offer an airplane where there’s not a lease default. Obviously, any marketing of the aircraft in such circumstances would be conditional on the aircraft actually becoming available. The idea that WestJet would be the "bad guy" for ev...
Jump to postFlair says one thing. Airborne says another. The truth is somewhere probably in between. A few on this thread are so very pro flair and so many are anti flair or at least suspect. I’m not sure where it comes from. That said, as an an observe from south of the border it’s porter that’s the weird one...
Jump to postI for one am shocked! Lol Airborne strongly rejects CEO Jones statements “The leasing of the four Airborne-managed aircraft was terminated following a five-month long period, during which Flair was regularly in default of its leases by failing to meet its payments when due, with payment arrears rea...
Jump to postSo, what’s odd about all this is that there’s no way the investor would imperil their investment over a below market lease and $1M. Hell even $10M. And yet they didn’t step in. Something wrong with it. And it can’t be like “too bad no more line of credit for you!” I don’t think they must have been ...
Jump to post... What is stopping an transmitter on each an every civil aircraft that can't be turned off that transmitted every 30 seconds to the last known ATC center and the airline directly. This seems entirely feasible and not expensive.. Every civilian aircraft should be visible to somebody. Reality check...
Jump to postMy first 747 flight, I was very impressed. My first 787 flight, I was disappointed and underwhelmed. Who else felt this way? Depending upon how far that first 747 flight goes back, it probably reflects a vastly different experience, assuming prior travel was on single-aisle aircraft. With the 787, ...
Jump to postCorrect me if I'm wrong, I was under the impression that a lot software engineering coding was contracted out? Which in no way changes the chain of responsibility for the functional design engineering that forms the basis of the spec for that code nor the responsibility for testing the entire syste...
Jump to postsold out? I hope so. it would be a shame for them to cut their flights after just announcing them. If all the flights to the US were in fact cancelled, I would assume it's due to the lawsuit that Flair's largest shareholder is taking against Flair (apparently has to do with their new US flights?) N...
Jump to postApparently, the article referenced an offer from years ago, so .... fake news. Besides, what would Sunwing have offered that Swoop could not do in house? Article corrected. "Also" referred to an offer from years ago. The current offer in the headline is new and real. Globe & Mail: &qu...
Jump to postAside from the type certificates, what all did Longview buy from BBD? What is DHC without the Q? Parts and services? Extracts from the purchase press release: "- Longview Aviation Capital Corp., parent company to Viking Air Limited, a leading Canadian aircraft manufacturer, today agreed to acq...
Jump to postActually great news for both WS and AC. Great to see airlines forging ahead and getting it done while our Government sits idly by.. Not to take this down a political path, but whom do you think WS and AC received approval from if not the “idly by-ers”? A private company? It was an agreement with th...
Jump to postBut as has been mentioned already, companies like QF have access to information you very likely do not. I would imagine all major airlines including Qantas have access to large amounts of economic data and forecasts, prepared by an in house team and from external sources. Some of those external sou...
Jump to postAir Canada is held with distain by most Canadians. They seem to believe that they are a monopoly that is consistantly on the receiving end of taxpayer bailouts (wrong) and still Government held (wrong). AC, Westjet Transat and Sunwing are being literally strangled by the mandatory "police enfo...
Jump to postLet me guess... John Wayne was a White Man who loved women and smoked cigarettes, therefore his image is threatening to triggered So-Cal snowflakes!! I'm from So-Cal by the way. Maybe the "snowflakes" have to care extra to make up for the lack of empathy embraced by those choosing to use ...
Jump to postMeanwhile Carnival Cruises resumes ops on August 1st. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/04/850047211/carnival-set-to-resume-cruises So which one is it.. everyone stays home for the rest of the year or everyone takes their chances and continues life ? Id say the latter ba...
Jump to postBased on the number of cruise ships being forced to stay out at sea due ports refusing to accept them, I would say the horror stories of these covid death ships will put a damper on the cruise season. Given that foreign passenger ships over 500 person capacity are currently banned until at least Ju...
Jump to postThis guy says this is a precursor to a Alaska/AA merger: https://captainjetson.com/featured/alaska-airlines-joining-oneworld-as-its-newest-partner/ Your phrase "says this is" is overstating what was actually published, which included speculative punctuation and phrases using "?"...
Jump to postWS needs to turn YOW into a small hub. Focused on servicing the Maritimes and Quebec with a regional network. And Sun destinations, Prairies and West Coast with their medium haul mainline network. And lastly work to bring AFKL to YOW and to get DL to expand there. Can be done. Takes effort on the p...
Jump to postPrince Harry is still considered an "Internationally Protected Person" under policies of the RCMP and other police services - for now. However, if he is no longer travelling as an official extension of the "Crown", then the special status and legal protection provided for in the ...
Jump to postI see it that LH messed-up and the FAA is reacting harshly with a large fine, even though there was no REAL danger here, because the FAA is under the gun to look tough at the moment. Maybe they don't have much leeway on the fine due to regulatory constraints - or are using LH as an example on the im...
Jump to postI didn't know Boeing or any other company had any obligations to answer to the public. As far as I know they only answer to the regulators. And since this test exceeded government requirements, I still fail to see the outrage. If Boeing said they weren't going to worry about it or fix it then we mi...
Jump to postSo if you read the lawsuit you’ll understand. When Lucas Johnson engaged with Neelemen it’s was a conflict of interest. He signed a contract with Jetlines, and was giving information to Neelemen about Jetlines financial info etc. 29. Paragraph 7.3 of the Johnson Employment Agreement provides as fol...
Jump to postThe Commonwealth imposes no formal legal obligations on any member state. It has neither the organizational structure nor the collective political will to transform into some sort of common-market for air travel nor any other good or service.
Jump to postSo what is your solution when the greens demand that we stop burning Carbon in aircraft? Tell them to find a more practical use case for reducing the burning of fossil fuels and hope some day the approaches for the other areas become practicable for air travel. Their current approach of shaming peo...
Jump to postThe storage density per unit energy of liquid hydrogen vs petroleum fuel is about 1:4. That doesn't include the weight of the much heavier hydrogen storage tanks. Hydrogen can be stored in other ways to avoid the cryogenic requirements for true liquid hydrogen but those have their own complications ...
Jump to postBlueknows wrote:The only hope is someone buys enough dead shares on the market. Anyone want and airline idea on the cheap. Think it’s down to 2 cents a share.
https://biv.com/article/2019/10/canada-jelines-delays-launch-lays-staff-after-investors-bail "Swoop president Steven Greenway told BIV in late January that he was not concerned about looming competition from Jetlines. “For me, they’ll become serious when they launch,” he said. “Until they actua...
Jump to postSo if you're Flair do you look for another contractor or seek to build the dispatch capacity internally? What type of entry barrier(s) would an entrant have for providing this service? Are there other providers in the marketplace? If you don't have the cash to pay for contract dispatch service how ...
Jump to postActually, it's pretty pricey and it's likely patented. However, it's not new. Lockheed offered it in 1972 on the Tristar when it was first introduced, but most airlines realized its maintenance was fairly expensive as well, and it was just easier to let the pax use the plastic blind/sheet. I would ...
Jump to postWas part of that company when it was Orbital Sciences back in the late 90's. Amazing that they still have the L1011 flying.
Jump to posthttps://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/10/08/1926526/0/en/Jetlines-Provides-Operations-Update.html "Jetlines' ability to sell tickets and launch airline service remains subject to the completion of the airline licensing process, the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals and the c...
Jump to postHere is link to what CANADA TRANSPORTATION AGENCY requires. https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/performance-and-statistics That is a link to WHAT measures the CTA applies to its OWN performance. If you're referring to financial requirements applicable to Canadian air carrier license applicants (as alluded to...
Jump to postWhat does any of this have to do with this accident? The AOC is independent of DAL. End of story. The AOC is only one element - relating to operational responsibility for the flight of the aircraft itself. That doesn't make it independent of Delta (the parent corp) in terms of commercial responsibi...
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