Jazz talks about their Q400
Scott Tapson, VP of Business Development at Jazz, talks about their experience with the Q400. We sat in their airplane at the show and spoke about Jazz and their thoughts on growing their fleet of...
View ArticleFerrying the Q400 to Paris
Turboprops are not as “sexy” as jets – perhaps. But they make money and for this reason they are in something of a renaissance. Both turboprop OEMs are doing good business. Bombardier brought a...
View ArticleOh Venus, Hey Venus
In one of the more bizarre incidents in recent history, an Air Canada pilot flying over the Atlantic mistakenly thought the planet Venus was an oncoming aircraft, diving the aircraft rapidly enough to...
View ArticleAirbus and Air Canada make “Perfect Flight”
Today Airbus and Air Canada are performing North America’s first “Perfect Flight” over international borders. The goal is to cut CO2 emissions by more than 40% compared to a regular flight. The...
View ArticleAir Canada’s fleet updates
Aviation Week and Aviation Daily journalist Andy Compart published a story on the outcome of an arbitration between the airline and its pilots. The airline won the arbitration and this opens up a host...
View ArticleBilly Bishop and Porter – Round 2
Porter Airlines dropped the other shoe today. The CS100 provisional order announcement of April 10 was met with skepticism by the attendant media. As readers will note from our interview with...
View ArticleSanta stops in Canada early
What an interesting December! Santa seems to have made an early visit to Canada. Air Canada ordered 61 Boeing 737 MAXs worth $6.5bn at list prices, a big win over Airbus. This is a customer turnover,...
View ArticleWhat WestJet Going International Means
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight Canada’s WestJet announced, in a briefing to its pilots, that it is planning to acquire wide-body aircraft and begin flying internationally in 2015. The carrier...
View ArticleAmericans buying into Brazilian airlines
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight Last week United announced its deal to take a stake in Azul. This follows an earlier move by Delta to take a stake in GOL. What do these deals mean? Let’s start...
View ArticleAir Canada sélectionne le CS300
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight Big news this morning as Bombardier announces its fourth quarter and year end 2015 results. The PR lists all these items, but we believe the first two to be the...
View ArticleBombardier CSeries momentum
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight It has taken a long time to get here, but things may be moving faster than many realize. Bombardier has, for a long time, spoken of the CSeries target customers...
View ArticleSanta stops in Canada early
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight What an interesting December! Santa seems to have made an early visit to Canada. Air Canada ordered 61 Boeing 737 MAXs worth $6.5bn at list prices, a big win over...
View ArticleWhat WestJet Going International Means
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight Canada’s WestJet announced, in a briefing to its pilots, that it is planning to acquire wide-body aircraft and begin flying internationally in 2015. The carrier...
View ArticleAmericans buying into Brazilian airlines
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight Last week United announced its deal to take a stake in Azul. This follows an earlier move by Delta to take a stake in GOL. What do these deals mean? Let’s start...
View ArticleAir Canada sélectionne le CS300
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight Big news this morning as Bombardier announces its fourth quarter and year end 2015 results. The PR lists all these items, but we believe the first two to be the...
View ArticleBombardier CSeries momentum
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight It has taken a long time to get here, but things may be moving faster than many realize. Bombardier has, for a long time, spoken of the CSeries target customers...
View ArticleBoeing loses in United deferral
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Airinsight In March, United Airlines announced it had done a deal with Boeing for 25 more 737-700s after its January deal for 40. This deal was hotly contested by...
View ArticleSanta stops in Canada early
What an interesting December! Santa seems to have made an early visit to Canada. Air Canada ordered 61 Boeing 737 MAXs worth $6.5bn at list prices, a big win over Airbus. This is a customer turnover,...
View ArticleWhat WestJet Going International Means
Canada’s WestJet announced, in a briefing to its pilots, that it is planning to acquire wide-body aircraft and begin flying internationally in 2015. The carrier currently wet-leases Boeing 757s from...
View ArticleAmericans buying into Brazilian airlines
Last week United announced its deal to take a stake in Azul. This follows an earlier move by Delta to take a stake in GOL. What do these deals mean? Let’s start with the following table. Brazil is...
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