Originally Posted by Snow Goose
In the FA's opinion, the Brazilian aircraft maker's planes were not well suited to winter flying in Canada.
It is colder at 35K + feet AGL than it ever gets on the ground in Canada.......whether flying over Brasilian airspace or the Canadian Rockies......on any day of the year. If a plane spends 4 hours at altitude where it is much colder, I doubt 4 hours parked on the ground is the problem as it relates to temps.
The line about it not being sufficiently cold weather tested IMHO is a red herring.
If the planes have issues IMHO they are not related to this. And all the E flights I have been on didn't have any problems that were equipment related.