Originally Posted by
Lloydbraun1976
Granted you are generally correct, and you even sound like me 30 years ago which got me in a heap of trouble with most of senior mgmt / Board as being unintelligible (except for CEO who had similar academic background).
However, if AC speaks like this in public, it is a pretty safe assumption that the percentile of comprehension will range near zero.
Reminds me of the onboard announcement when AC runs late that might passengers remain seated to allow short connections to dis-embark first. Has anyone here ever heard what "short" means? Given my advancing age, I no longer can sprint through terminal buildings so "late" for a fit athlete means something very different than my pace now a days.
From YVR domestic near security checkpoint
RangerNS
Really, might I respectfully suggest "facts first" before you question assumptions.
AC fleet = 400
FR fleet = 572
AC Cabin crew +/- 10,000 (CUPE website), pilots +/- 4,500 ACPA website
FR Cabin crew 13,365 Pilots 6,582
AC destinations = 190 in 55 countries
FR destinations = 240 in 40 countries
AC employee = 35,600
FR empoloyee = 22,000
AC passenger = 37 mil 2022
FR passenger = 169 mil 2022
The only measure I can agree with you on is longer block times, which presumably means greater time between arrival and departure that should permit greater forewarning of problems if flights going to arrive late.
FR has 50% fewer internal employees yet has larger fleet and on-board crews, which must reflect far greater groundside outsourcing they must obviously do to deliver EU leading OTP.
And EU airspace far more congested than the empty skies over Canada, so what other excuse might AC come up with for such poor peformance other than shareholders don't know to demand better?
1.5 of the countries AC flies to covers more than the entire area that FR flies to, which is far fewer meaningful jurisdictions.
FR flies aircraft that carry between 148 and 197 PAX, across 4 configurations but only 2 types, for pilot cert purposes.; AC fleet is 14-20+ styles, depending on how you want to count, maybe 8+ types of pilots, even ignoring the contract fleets and distinct unions that AC is involved with.
FR A220s have a range of 3,100–3,750 nmi; 737-700 is 3,010 nmi, 737-800 is 2,935 nmi, MAX-200: 3,500 nmi, MAX-10: 3,100 ni.
AC's Dash-8:
1167 nmi, up through to 10,000 nmi for the 77L.
FR flies a point to-point model rather than the more traditional airline hub and spoke.
For route planning, FRs fleet is infinitely interchangeable. AC flies to places some of their aircraft can't land at, and to places far enough away from the next nearest post that some of their aircraft could not get to them if they flew without PAX or cargo.
They are in no way comparable business. You might as well compare raw headcounts of staff of McDonalds vs Outback Steakhouse.