Gulfstream Intl is getting Saabs!

[SpauldingSmails]

Good news, SAAB is an automaker too. It should be easier for Gulfstream to find car parts for their planes now.

 

[Salukipilot4590]

I wonder how much the F/O seat will cost now...50K?

 

[dingo222]

Good news, SAAB is an automaker too. It should be easier for Gulfstream to find car parts for their planes now.

haha, nice

 

[tully]

I wonder how much the F/O seat will cost now...50K?

That would be a good question. However, the academy doors have been shut (for quite some time now I understand). The FO program is no more. This old…old…old joke no longer applies to this company. You will have to get some new material. Fear not though, I hear rumors that Cooper will soon be starting up a new program.

I think I've got a better question. How many of you jobless hang arounds on this board will apply when GIA starts hiring off the street in the next few months? Anyone who knows anything about this industry knows that we all live our professional lives in
glass houses. I think you know what I think you can do with your stones.

 

[SEVEN]

Regardless of how many seats or which model it is it will still only hold 30 pax.

FWIW, Pinnacle A models had 33 seats. We flew them that way for 17 years.

Pinnacle operated straight B's. B+ has 34 seats, B has 33, and A has 30

 

[DoinTime]

Pinnacle operated straight B's. B+ has 34 seats, B has 33, and A has 30

You don't know your history or your aircraft.

 

[IslandDriver]

I do not know when CJC was PFT...I know they have not been since 2002.

 

[Seahawker01]

Pay for training was quite common in the industry during the '90s. Even express jet did it and most other "reputable" airlines. But that was then and this is the 21st century. And gulf stream is still living in the "glory days" when brazila's were dropping out of the skys, saabs were new, and scabs went into the thousands.

 

[SEVEN]

You don't know your history or your aircraft.

I flew the A's with 30 seats, the old Express POS B minuses which had 33 seats, and the current XJ B Plus model which has 34 seats. How many models have you flown? Don't forget, Mesaba operated the largest Saab fleet in the world for a time. When I started in 2005, we were operating all 3 models. I think I know the plane a little better than you think. I can draw an HMU in my sleep...how about you?

 

[DoinTime]

I flew the A's with 30 seats, the old Express POS B minuses which had 33 seats, and the current XJ B Plus model which has 34 seats. How many models have you flown? Don't forget, Mesaba operated the largest Saab fleet in the world for a time. When I started in 2005, we were operating all 3 models. I think I know the plane a little better than you think. I can draw an HMU in my sleep...how about you?

You flew Mesaba Saabs. Like any other aircraft, they can be configured differently depending on the operators choices. In addition to a common interior configuartion of 33 seats, Pinnacle Saabs (both As and Bs) had the lav in the back, behind row 11. Does that surprise you?

I'm sure you know every last Mesaba tailed Saab like the back of your hand but its a big world out there and different airlines do things different ways.

Research may not be your thing but take a look at this:
http://www.saabaircraftleasing.com/prod/dataSheets/340Brochure.pdf

 

[SEVEN]

You flew Mesaba Saabs. Like any other aircraft, they can be configured differently depending on the operators choices. In addition to a common interior configuartion of 33 seats, Pinnacle Saabs (both As and Bs) had the lav in the back, behind row 11. Does that surprise you?

I'm sure you know every last Mesaba tailed Saab like the back of your hand but its a big world out there and different airlines do things different ways.

Research may not be your thing but take a look at this:
http://www.saabaircraftleasing.com/prod/dataSheets/340Brochure.pdf

A model only has 10 rows. And yes, I know the lavs are in the back.

 

[DoinTime]

A model only has 10 rows. And yes, I know the lavs are in the back.

They had 11 rows at Pinnacle (and Colgan). All of the models have the same length hull.

 

[SEVEN]

They had 11 rows at Pinnacle (and Colgan). All of the models have the same length hull.

I may be wrong, but I believe the A models are smaller/shorter than the B's. I know the Takeoff weight is 1000 lbs less.

 

[Twisted Mind]

Didn't some Saabs have a backwards facing passanger seat also?

 

[v1valarob]

Didn't some Saabs have a backwards facing passanger seat also?

Colgan Saabs with an aft lav have a backward facing seat, row 1.