Five things Bombardier must do help the CSeries fly
CSeries family. Image from Bombardier Multimedia Since it was announced in mid-2004 the Bombardier CSeries has been something of an enigma. Airlines have blown hot and cold on it. Bombardier themselves cancelled the program in early 2006, only to restart it a year or so later. The skeptics out there will have already written this...
Why Air Canada needs the 787
We’re in the second quarter of 2010, which means that in a parallel universe somewhere Air Canada is dotting the umlauts (even in this parallel universe it’s worthwhile running things past zee Germans) and crossing the t’s in the final ramp up to entry into service (EIS) of the 787-8. If only the same thing...
A review of Air Canada’s in-flight entertainment offering
In recent years Air Canada’s Project XM drove the adoption of seat-back in-flight entertainment consoles across the fleet. They even aired this advertisement (relentlessly I might add) last year to publicize the project. This AC commercial was in high rotation in 2009. The content Air Canada makes available is great but the IFE interface...
What Air Canada and WestJet can do to fight off Porter
Possible offsite check-in locations. In just three (or so) years Porter has gone from being a boutique operation to being a true contender. In fact they will soon offer more frequencies between Toronto and Ottawa, and Toronto and Montreal than either WestJet or Air Canada – every hour and every forty minutes respectively. Of...
Ridiculous fare difference on YYZ-ATL
I have a work commitment (Convergence 2010) that requires me to be in Atlanta between April 24th and April 27th. Given that Toronto and Atlanta are both big cities and hubs to major carriers I didn’t think it would be a problem sorting myself out with flights. Just a few minutes ago I logged onto...
