Originally posted by EAL_KING
excuse me what you talking about im 15 in school but not at the min as im ill so pi** off 😡

I hope you’re not missing the lesson on punctuation.

😉

Mike

2DEF are very good seats indeed. Probably the best reservable ones (I don’t think you can reserve the exit rows)

Mike

IMHO most of the aircraft listed are not true regional jets – capacity is not the only issue here. I do not think the 717, A318, Tu134 and the F28/F70/F100 are even in the reckoning.

Even the CRJ200 is suited more to thin routes between medium – large airports that have a long enough runway for it.

A good measure (IMO) is whether the aircraft can get into LCY, and this limits the choice to the ARJ/BAe146 and the ERJ135 with an extra option (plus the 328Jet?). The Embraer 170 will have this capability too, I believe.

Just my 2p

Mike

Originally posted by Bmused55
Those are flights, not aircraft and anyhow, flights that were operated, but no longer. There is no comparison here.

There are STILL many more boeings in operation than airbus.
We’re talking here and now.

Here and now Airbus are selling more aircraft than Boeing, which makes them currently the largest commercial aircraft builder, in my book.

Mike

Here’s the Guardian’s opinion of how to save money.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,1371,798452,00.html

I have also noticed that the airlines often put extra cheaoper seats on their flights exactly 3 months and again exactly 6 weeks before departure date.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Originally posted by greekdude1
That is one of them, Hand. There is another as well.

Hi Greekdude, good to see you again.

I believe the A319s and A320s (?) were delivered in grey. Also, do we include the UE CRJs?

Mike

Originally posted by Hand87_5
That’s exactly what ValueJet did when one of their DC9 crashed in the Evergaldes .
They rebranded the airline.

That’s right – but they needed to take more drastic steps than United because of the hostile press campaign that followed the Everglades crash. Basically it was reported (wrongly, if my memory serves me right) that the crash was due to poor operating and maintenance at ValuJet.

United received none of this, with few people blaming them for 9/11, but the last moments of that dark grey 767 have stuck in many minds.

Mike

Hi, I agree with all the comments about the current United scheme being nice – it’s one of my favourites too.

There are two big problems with it though. Firstly the cost, about which plenty has been said already.

A second consideration (IIRC) is that many people around the world sadly associate these colours with a 767 being flown into the south tower on live TV, seen by a huge proportion of the world. This too may be a stronger reason than one might initially think.

I used to be on the revenue management team for a major train operator, one of the most respected in Britain at the time. Unfortunately this operator was blighted by two serious accidents, neither of which was in any way its fault, and a thing that came through repeatedly in market research afterward was that the operator’s distinctive c/s was now heavily associated with the news pictures of seriously wrecked trains.

Another obvious example (aviation this time) of this phenomenon is Valujet.

Any thoughts?
Mike