Who's the potential buyer of the C-Series?

[EngineOut]

Jerry was in Montreal on Monday and left Tues.

Oh. Well, then...there you go.

 

[No Delay]

Nope. It's me!

Me and my neighbor starting our own regional. Taking applications...just post your résumé on this thread if you are interested. I will get back to you tomorrow....unless scheduling extends me

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Skywest management has been working with Ford and Harrison along with DAL and UAL to come to a "solution" to scope. Now that the DAL and UAL BK is in the books I would expect some sort of Codeshare agreement to be agreed to. The arguement will be, "you gave up 90 seats, 100-110 seats isn't much different, don't worry it will only be a few planes"

 

[General Lee]

Skywest management has been working with Ford and Harrison along with DAL and UAL to come to a "solution" to scope. Now that the DAL and UAL BK is in the books I would expect some sort of Codeshare agreement to be agreed to. The arguement will be, "you gave up 90 seats, 100-110 seats isn't much different, don't worry it will only be a few planes"

That just won't happen. There is no additional domestic codesharing allowed other than current AK, and even that was tightened. There is the "frontier" clause that allows Republic to continue to feed us while owning an airline with planes bigger than 76 seats (Frontier), but that is it, and there isn't a codeshare allowed with Frontier as well. Sorry! As long as the legacies continue to get stronger through consolidation, future BKs seem unlikely at best, and that is the only place to break the scope clauses. You can always break away and start your own Indy Air. That would be interesting.....

Doesn't Jerry own part of an airline in Brazil? Trip? Maybe he is looking at the C-Series for them?


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[centralpilot]

Doesn't Jerry own part of an airline in Brazil? Trip? Maybe he is looking at the C-Series for them?

Nope. SkyWest agreed to sell their 26% stake in Trip a few months back.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Nope. SkyWest agreed to sell their 26% stake in Trip a few months back.

Maybe they are for Meloveyoulongtime Air.

 

[rjacobs]

Meloveyoulongtime Air.

Where were you when we had the name the airline contest after surejet flopped?

 

[A-10_JetMech]

Who cares who orders them. Their aircraft are garbage. Flaps problems on the 200, Slats on the 900. Any other issues feel free to add.

 

[Ops check good]

Who cares who orders them. Their aircraft are garbage. Flaps problems on the 200, Slats on the 900. Any other issues feel free to add.

Sure they have problems, all A/C do. Atleast BBD learns from mistakes. The 200 flaps fail in cold, TR's fail regularly and APU's run great until they grenade. All of that is fixed on the 700/900 which only has a chronic issue with "duct mon" faults. I would hardly call them garbage, I have seen much worse in my career.

 

[johnsonrod]

My bet is TACA (aka Take A Chance Airlines) or LAN. Those airlines have several partner airlines (equity stakes) in various Latin American countries that could use them.

I've read a lot about the C-Series and it will be a great airplane. Clean sheet design with Collins ProLine Fusion, FBW sidesticks and dual HUDs up front and very comfortable for pax with big baggage bins.

Watch this Bombardier C-Series marketing video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kO06ahlEs


Hoping we don't see it in the regional ranks for the smaller version (CS100) - I'd rather see them at a legacy to fill the 100-120 seat gap. I presume Republic will use them for Frontier - not sure how that will work (replace E190s). Delta's purchase of AirTran's 717s means probably no C-Series for them... Too bad. Hoping United or AMR/USAair orders the airplane. We'll probably see them in Air Canada colors since AC is not happy with the Embraers. Too bad we won't see the first C-Series delivered until 2014...