Foreign Carrier RJ's

[i'mbatman]

As many of you know carriers such as British, Alitalia, LOT, Lufthansa, etc operate CRJ's, ERJ-135/145, and EMB-170's. Are the pilots for those aircraft employed by subsidiaries like in the US or by the actual mailine airline?
THx
IB

 

[SmackYourPappy]

I can't speak for all of the above carriers, but I can confirm that the Lufthansa and Tyrolean subsidiaries are all contract carriers much like SKYW, ARW, CHQ, etc.. with the regionals being completely seperate. And yes.... they too are treated like red-headed stepchildren by their parent companies.

 

[lymanm]

Air Canada has operated their CRJ-100s as mainline since 1995. It was their newhire aircraft, supplanting the DC-9 when it entered service. However, it was a difficult transition for some, as the captains were all widebody FOs with relatively little experience in a "hot" aircraft such as the CRJ, and of course the newhires were coming out of Metros, Dashs, Twotters, etc etc etc. Nonetheless, the CRJ was instrumental in AC becoming the dominant carrier between the USA and Canada, employing the RJ years before any American competitor.

2-3 years ago, Air Canada Regional (Jazz) ordered some of Midways' former CRJ-200s and has since shared the CRJ duty with AC mainline, thus taking some expensive AC mainline crews off the RJ. Eventually, AC will relinquish all CRJ, including newly ordered CRJ705, really the CRJ900 with a 1st class cabin (designed to replace the BAe 146s currently with Jazz), to Jazz. AC has also ordered EMB 195s, but it has not been decided who will take these. Smart money says AC mainline, as the EMBs are almost identical in capacity to the DC-9-32s AC used to operate until 2002.

 

[Rottweiller]

There is a several page spread about Eupoean Regionals in this months AIN magazine if you can find it floating around. Basically it's a mix of WO and contracted services just like the US.

 

[JetScreamDriver]

Finnish carrier Finnair has ordred 12 ERJ-170's and they will be flown by mainline pilots. Finnair is parking their MD-83's and ATR's.

 

[AFELLOWAVIATOR]

Nonetheless, the CRJ was instrumental in AC becoming the dominant carrier between the USA and Canada, employing the RJ years before any American competitor.



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I believe Comair was the N. American launch customer for the CRJ. And was the first to fly them between the US and Canada.