Stuka Luva said:
@ TBone
According to the Manager of Ground Training at Bombardier, it's a new record delivery schedule for this aircraft, and yes they can come that fast.
@ N628AU
It's the new pax and bag weights that are sinking the 328. 🙁
N628AU is forgetting a study that CCAir had when the DO-328 was considerd as an option , that could have been converted to the 328Jet.
CCAirs VP of operations attended the 328jets roll out ceremony and came back with numerous technical documents on both variants of the 328. The Acft if obtained prior to what led to CC's sell-out to Mesa , would have in fact created situations in numerous markets where either passengers or bags would have taken a pinch.
CCAirs routes into OAJ , SOP and a few others , would have netted some if not all of the same problems that the under-sized DHC-100's and JS-31's had. This may not be so much of a case of the aircraft lacking anything....as much as it is / was a case of the wrong Acft being placed on the routes at times.
PI had the same issues when operating so-called mainline Acft into those cities years prior to the US/PI merger.
Liesure passengers with Golf bags...and Military travelers (especially new enlistee's with "Duffle Bags" containing their entire life can present problems in a regional of any type. Basically thier is no ideal way to handle this. A mainline jet of the right size could do it all....but the actual seating capacity Vs. the net yield would be a loser....The Regional is the same thing only in reverse.
BTW....Had CCAir remained free of Mesa's clutches?...and had CCAir gone forward with the token "dangling carrot" of a DO-328 or RJ that a certain VP was known to spread rumors of to any "New Hire" pilot class that was dumb enough to listen to him. CCAir might have never lasted long enough for Mesa to grab them. CCAir would have been bankrupted long before that , The monthly cost of a 328 of any discription in lease payments alone would have killed CC....the support costs of the 328 without being a WO would have added to a quicker death than it had.