Air Canada fleet upgrade may be back on

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 04 Sep 2005, 03:04

Stories are circulating that AC may have done a deal with GE Capital for their Boeing fleet upgrade. Should be more news mid September.

KT

SR89 · Post by **SR89** » 04 Sep 2005, 03:20

Link(s) please!

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 04 Sep 2005, 05:11

Sorry there are no links to inside info, this is from friends at AC

KT

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 04 Sep 2005, 05:13

My Great AUnt travelled AC recently LHR-YVR-LHR, and she said they all receved leaflets explaining the revamping of the interiors. I guess it is true!

chunk · Post by **chunk** » 04 Sep 2005, 16:41

Why would they re-vamp the interiors of planes not ordered yet? Sounds like they are revamping the interriors of the existing fleet no?

yagoceron · Post by **yagoceron** » 04 Sep 2005, 16:45

Great news, I'd love to see a 777 in AC colours

gap777 · Post by **gap777** » 05 Sep 2005, 04:39

Doesn't AC have to get an agreement with their pilots first before they can arrange for financing for new planes? I hope i didn't misunderstand the post but financing for new planes is what you were talking about right?

W.

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 05 Sep 2005, 05:48

Correct, I think AC is going to lease through GE Aircraft Leasing, so they won't have to put all that money up front, however the details are still very vague so I would not draw any conclusions just yet.

KT

bigjulie · Post by **bigjulie** » 10 Sep 2005, 19:25

Why don't they go through ILFC(International Lease Finance Corperation) they (AC) are already ILFC customers!

www.ilfc.com/noAmerica.htm
www.ilfc.com/boeing.htm

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 11 Sep 2005, 00:12

Perhaps they are getting a better deal with someone else...

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 11 Sep 2005, 00:20

Hope they finally found an agreement with their pilots.

Seb.

bigjulie · Post by **bigjulie** » 11 Sep 2005, 01:41

Knight255 wrote:Perhaps they are getting a better deal with someone else

That must be it!

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 11 Sep 2005, 08:23

The pilots need to be slapped!!!

I would take what an MD-80 Captain is making at American to fly a 777!!! Lets see, you're flying state of the art equipment and they probably have a nice selection of lines to fly (for the 777), what is there to negotiate again?!?!?!!?!

gap777 · Post by **gap777** » 12 Sep 2005, 06:53

I hate to defend the pilots on this one but AC should have done a better job integrating the pilots from Canadian Airlines when the two merged. a lot of the unhappiness comes from the AC pilots who got bumped down the seniority list from the Canadian Airline pilots. Hopefully the pilots and AC management can come to some kind of agreement to get those new birds up and flying real soon.

W.

yagoceron · Post by **yagoceron** » 12 Sep 2005, 10:13

Knight255 wrote:I would take what an MD-80 Captain is making at American to fly a 777!!!

As I passionnate I would say the same but I doubt any pilot would

Why would they be paid less for flying the same a/c that their colleagues in another company. They would switch company iso staying at AC.

Knight255 · Post by **Knight255** » 12 Sep 2005, 18:47

Why would they be paid less for flying the same a/c that their colleagues in another company. They would switch company iso staying at AC.

I was just making a reference that widebody Captains get paid PLENTY of money for what they do. Even single-aisle (MD-80) Captains get paid plenty.

yagoceron · Post by **yagoceron** » 13 Sep 2005, 09:25

It's never enough it seems

B777-300ER · Post by **B777-300ER** » 13 Sep 2005, 23:22

i thinkAC new 777 would lunch new Africa destination