jaysona

Interesting that your focus is the way I wrote the message vs the actual issue at hand - which is people acting selfishly and affecting others.

Yes, I do consider any individual to be a loser when that individual engages in selfish behaviour with no regard for others and where such behaviour has an immediate and meterial impact on others.

I am probably the most selfish person anyone will encounter, but I also try to make sure my selfish behaviours do not adversely affect other people.

As for being materially affected - every single Air Canada flyer ends being materially affected, as these delays incur addition costs to the airline - costs that end up being passed on to us in terms of higher fares, and I personally know three people that were affected due to the removal of the safety cards. Now I know the impact of the 7M8 safety card issue will be negligible in terms of fares across the board, but all of these little things added over time can end up being noticeable.

I never claimed to be safety card police - not sure how you're reading that from my post - but then you tend to come up with odd responses to my posts - for reasons I have yet to fully understand.........but whatevs.....this is FT, it's not like anything posted here is all that important or of any life significance.......

There are several Rapidair turns almost every day during the month of January, I have been on a couple already, and have a couple of more flights this week through the weekend.

Safety card are, they are considered safety equipment and have an associated part number.

AC crew do perform cabin security checks before each flight which is one of the reasons crew board the aircraft ~45 minutes before departure.


No, photocopying the cards for use in the cabin in lieu of the official card is not permitted due to the cards being considered safety equipment, having a unique part number, part number is associated to material type, etc, etc, etc.

Adam Smith

Thank you, good sir, for patrolling this thread to keep it free of opinions you deem unnecessary or incorrect. Good to know who stands on guard for the sanctity of this forum.



Not only do I concur with ridefar and songsc, I would go so far as to bet that at least one active poster on AC FT has stolen one of these cards. And that many more have taken something similar at some point. All without any thought as to the effect it might have on others.

jaysona

When it comes to the flight Pleblond missed, yes, as a friend of mine was operating the YVR-YUL redeye and spent a good fifteen minutes b**ching via text about the delay due to "asshat pax" that took a bunch of safety cards causing delays and scrambling at YVR to find more 7M8 safety cards - it's not like there were a lot of spare cards to go around at the time.

YVR72

Looks like three flights a day each between TORONTO and LAX and SFO on the 737Max-8 starting this summer.

jaysona

Air Canada still flies the 737-200 combis?

Jumper Jack

RIP cow

Stranger

Was there ever such a thing anyway?

Fiordland

I think there was. Many years ago (90s?) Air Canada owned a regional called NWT Air that operated into the northern territories. I believe it was the only part of Air Canada to operate the 737-200 and the 737-200 combi. Fairly certain it ended up being sold off and merged with someone else. First Air maybe?

jaysona

I suspect the Wi-Fi STC work falls under Avionics for KF, so I am not surprised about the lack of specific mention for Wi-Fi work and capabilities. The Wi-Fi design and certification work I did was classified officially as "secondary avionics" systems.

Uhm......this I find kind of surprising. Do you have any links for this? Since the WS aircraft are Canadian registered, TCCA is the official signatory, even if a US AMO holds the STC, TCCA will need to approve the work and approve the RTS of the modified aircraft. So I am confused at to why the FAA would ground a Canadian registered aircraft that had Wi-Fi equipment installed

I'm not dismissing the notion outright, but since I continue to work of related STC projects, I am curious about this.

jaysona

I have had the chance to fly the 7M8 a few times over the past couple of weeks, and these are my thoughts/impressions thus far.

I like the leg room in J, it is greater than the legroom in the narrow-body Airbus J cabin.

I find the seats in the 7M8 are not as comfortable as the Airbus seats, the 7M8 seats seem to have an air bladder instead of a fabric cushion. Whatever the case is, I prefer the seat cushion of the Airbus seats. The seat-back pocket is much smaller on the 7M8 seats compared to the seat-back pockets in the Airbus narrow-body aircraft. Forget about storing a thin laptop such as a MacBook Air in the 7M8 seat-back pocket - you'll be lucky to get an iPad in there. :-\

The tray table is smaller, it is a folding tray table and sits higher than the Airbus J tray table. This higher tray table makes using a laptop for an extended period of time quite uncomfortable.

There is one USB charging port in the underside of the seat-back monitor as well as an audio jack, I found using those ports to be a problem as any kind of seat shifting resulted in the cables be pulled and unplugged. On the plus side, there is an additional USB charging outlet and headphone jack in the center console storage compartment, there an international plug power outlet located in the center console storage compartment as well.

So overall I prefer the Airbus J cabin and seats, but I think I can get used to the new and narrower seats of the 7M8, I have no issues doing a redeye on the A320 series, but I think it would be tougher to sleep on the 7M8 - at least until I get used to it.

Additional edit:
During a cockpit visit I was kind of dissapointed at just how cramped the cockpit was, and was hoping Boeing would have given a little more office space for the folks up front - riding jumpseat is not going to be fun at all. I forgot just how old the 737 design is - I guess I have become too accustomed to working in a modern cockpit.



The cabin entrance is kind of narrow due to the forward cabin monuments.


J cabin seating.


J cabin seating - side view.


J cabin seating - seat-back & seat-back storage.


J cabin seating - legroom.


J cabin seating - center console storage, power and audio outlets.


J cabin tray table - full extend


J cabin tray table - folded.

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yyznomad

CZAMFlyer

We agree that lifting safety cards to sell on eBay is not commendable behaviour. We may not always like what some people do. Please, for the sake of the rest of us, please stop name calling and passing unsolicited judgements onto others you have never met, and without the benefit of actual firsthand knowledge of the situation. It just makes it unpleasant for the rest of us.

Passing on haughty judgement has become a trademark of your posts, to be honest: Isn't this the definition of being selfish?

Admittedly, that was my term, but you were indeed the person who took the greatest offence to an alleged act that in no way affects you personally or materially. If AC has an issue with missing items taken by passengers, let's allow them to address it.

I will never take offence to opinions with which I disagree. But maybe try to outline them without joining the chorus of name-calling. Please.

Clever post by the way. Never seen that before, is it an original thought?

ffsim

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