Air Canada would study Airbus, Boeing for transatlantic narrowbody needs
Jan 14, 2019, 3:54 pm
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Air Canada would study Airbus, Boeing for transatlantic narrowbody needs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1P82FT
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Air Canada is interested in further developing the use of narrowbody aircraft to serve the transatlantic market and would look at both Airbus and Boeing models, a senior executive said.
Mark Galardo, vice-president of network planning at the Canadian national carrier, said in answer to a question that the group would study options including the Airbus A321XLR and the Boeing 737 MAX.
However, he told a media briefing it was “premature” to discuss whether Air Canada might order the Airbus A321XLR, a potential future expansion of the Airbus portfolio that sources say the planemaker may launch by the middle of this year.
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Air Canada is interested in further developing the use of narrowbody aircraft to serve the transatlantic market and would look at both Airbus and Boeing models, a senior executive said.
Mark Galardo, vice-president of network planning at the Canadian national carrier, said in answer to a question that the group would study options including the Airbus A321XLR and the Boeing 737 MAX.
However, he told a media briefing it was “premature” to discuss whether Air Canada might order the Airbus A321XLR, a potential future expansion of the Airbus portfolio that sources say the planemaker may launch by the middle of this year.
Jan 14, 2019, 4:13 pm
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1P82FT
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Air Canada is interested in further developing the use of narrowbody aircraft to serve the transatlantic market and would look at both Airbus and Boeing models, a senior executive said.
Mark Galardo, vice-president of network planning at the Canadian national carrier, said in answer to a question that the group would study options including the Airbus A321XLR and the Boeing 737 MAX.
However, he told a media briefing it was “premature” to discuss whether Air Canada might order the Airbus A321XLR, a potential future expansion of the Airbus portfolio that sources say the planemaker may launch by the middle of this year.
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Air Canada is interested in further developing the use of narrowbody aircraft to serve the transatlantic market and would look at both Airbus and Boeing models, a senior executive said.
Mark Galardo, vice-president of network planning at the Canadian national carrier, said in answer to a question that the group would study options including the Airbus A321XLR and the Boeing 737 MAX.
However, he told a media briefing it was “premature” to discuss whether Air Canada might order the Airbus A321XLR, a potential future expansion of the Airbus portfolio that sources say the planemaker may launch by the middle of this year.
Jan 14, 2019, 4:19 pm
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Jan 14, 2019, 4:42 pm
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I mean, I guess AC could throw us all a curveball and order a bunch of Tupolev Tu-204s, Irkut MC-21s, or Comac C919s, but somehow I don't see that happening. IDK, I'm sure I could end up proven wrong, lol.
Jan 14, 2019, 4:54 pm
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I think you're missing the subtle but public point being made, which is AC telling the OEMs (Boeing more than Airbus, IMHO) to get off its corporate butt and make a public ATO for the NMA. The industry was expecting the NMA (what some call the 797) ATO to happen in Q4-2018 and still nothing. Future fleet planning is quite a bit easier when operators know what OEMs have in the pipe and availability. More has been whispered about the A321XLR than the NMA.
Jan 14, 2019, 10:31 pm
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I think long-haul flights in a narrowbody can be made to not suck, it's just a question of whether or not the route economics permit them to, and whether or not the airlines want them to.
Jan 14, 2019, 10:36 pm
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Jan 15, 2019, 7:34 am
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TATL travel in a 17/30 seat sucks regardless of the aircraft. And there is no reason why would be a TATL trip in J aboard of an A321XLR equipped with proper lie flat seats worse than a trip in a widebody equipped with a similar seat.
Jan 15, 2019, 11:14 am
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They seem perfectly fine to fly a Y/PY product over the ocean with the 7M8.
Premium routes like YYZ-LHR will have the demand to continue commanding multiple widebodies per day, but new, currently uneconomical or marginal routes that might be served by an A321XLR may not justify a true international J product.
Jan 15, 2019, 11:45 am
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Is there reason to believe that a future A321XLR operated by AC would be equipped with lie-flat seats?
They seem perfectly fine to fly a Y/PY product over the ocean with the 7M8.
Premium routes like YYZ-LHR will have the demand to continue commanding multiple widebodies per day, but new, currently uneconomical or marginal routes that might be served by an A321XLR may not justify a true international J product.
They seem perfectly fine to fly a Y/PY product over the ocean with the 7M8.
Premium routes like YYZ-LHR will have the demand to continue commanding multiple widebodies per day, but new, currently uneconomical or marginal routes that might be served by an A321XLR may not justify a true international J product.