AC 2017 Investor Day; Airline Establishes New Targets for 2018-2020
Sep 19, 2017, 10:18 pm
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The new woman also was involved in a similar disaster at WS. Not sure if at that point she was primarily an IT or a marketing person though. But anyway, looks like she has a sizeable budget for IT improvements, at least for a couple of years.
Whether the relationship with IBM will survive is an open question at this point.
Sep 19, 2017, 10:22 pm
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LOL this is Air Canada the premium traffic? its ROUGE! United has lots of layflats to HNL, AC gave up on premium traffic long ago.
Sep 19, 2017, 11:27 pm
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As for Hawaii going to mainline, I think we're all saying the same thing.
Sep 20, 2017, 12:14 am
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AA has some orders that they keep deferring. They were purchased - cheap - in the US days, but AA doesn't want to begin a small (to them) new sub-fleet. I'm sure this is something that AC could look at purchasing. But in the end, they are quite similar aircraft to the 787 which is why AA is trying to avoid them.
Sep 20, 2017, 12:48 am
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According to the investor day report, AC plans to retire the Dash-8 100/200s and the CRJ-200s. This is most of their capacity in the 40-50 seat range. I guess we'll be seeing fewer flights using larger birds for markets served by these aircraft.
AC never mentions the little Beechcraft 1900s in these reports. I wonder if there are any plans to retire/replace them. A ton of them fly around Atlantic Canada, going to places like YQM, YYG, YSJ, YFC, and YYR. I can't see these runs being replaced by Q400s.
AC never mentions the little Beechcraft 1900s in these reports. I wonder if there are any plans to retire/replace them. A ton of them fly around Atlantic Canada, going to places like YQM, YYG, YSJ, YFC, and YYR. I can't see these runs being replaced by Q400s.
Sep 20, 2017, 12:59 am
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Sep 20, 2017, 8:19 am
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Sep 20, 2017, 8:21 am
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Sep 20, 2017, 9:26 am
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We asked AC corporate if the Beech 1900s disappearing from the magazine fleet listing was a sign they were leaving. They are staying.
Not only won't they not get the new paint job but they are being painted without AC logos/livery. They need them in the fleet but don't want the public image of the luxury Dreamliner and 737Max fleet to be cheapened by the Beechcraft.
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Sep 20, 2017, 11:09 am
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Sep 20, 2017, 11:21 am
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They tried before, albeit not with Amadeus. Was a disaster.
The new woman also was involved in a similar disaster at WS. Not sure if at that point she was primarily an IT or a marketing person though. But anyway, looks like she has a sizeable budget for IT improvements, at least for a couple of years.
Whether the relationship with IBM will survive is an open question at this point.
The new woman also was involved in a similar disaster at WS. Not sure if at that point she was primarily an IT or a marketing person though. But anyway, looks like she has a sizeable budget for IT improvements, at least for a couple of years.
Whether the relationship with IBM will survive is an open question at this point.
Now, whether they will be able to handle the system migration gracefully is another question.
Sep 20, 2017, 11:49 am
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And yes, Amadeus it should clearly be. But we have not heard much about what is going to happen, and I don't believe Amadeus has been mentioned.
Anyway, let's hope they ditch IBM, and that the new person knows what she is doing. At leats the money is in place.