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Cost irrelevant, that whole fleet needed urgent change. Those planes were so dated it was a shame. When I flew last month that was prob the worst flying experience I have ever had. Uncomfortable like whoa.zoom rader wrote:^^ At what cost to tax payers?
Cost irrelevant?jhonnieblue wrote:Cost irrelevant, that whole fleet needed urgent change. Those planes were so dated it was a shame. When I flew last month that was prob the worst flying experience I have ever had. Uncomfortable like whoa.zoom rader wrote:^^ At what cost to tax payers?
Only reason I fly cal was to use miles
This is why dis 5hithole will never reach anywhere if you don't hold and the government accountable for money spent.MaxPower wrote:zoom rader wrote:^^ At what cost to tax payers?
Irrelevant question Zoom.
If it does not waste here, it will be wasted elsewhere and the citizens of T&T will shut their mouths and take it.
K74T wrote:Second 737-8 MAX arrived at Piarco laat night.
Dizzy28 wrote:
In the same week there's a story about the retrenchment of 45% of its pilots going to the Industrial Court
Niceee!!!
Max,MaxPower wrote:Dizzy28 wrote:
In the same week there's a story about the retrenchment of 45% of its pilots going to the Industrial Court
Niceee!!!
I understand that all the first officers on the ATR are not supposed to be in that position.
Imagine only in a company for 1-2 years and pilots with over 10 years of service got retrenched.
Madness.
hover11 wrote:Max,
Welcome to Sweet TnT
X3000MaxPower wrote:
Well is now so they going to have racket to rush results for Trinis to travel.
Not that they never had fraudulent and erroneous testing going on already but it gonna get more rampant.
It have some scamps doing house visits and charging $400+ for Anti-gen/PCR tests and printing both a positive and negative results so when the actual result comes it done type up already.
We have to be more vigilant and a proper system put in place to stop irresponsible/infected Trinis from entering other countries.
Our infection rate is disgusting.
agent007 wrote:What CAL needs to do is get some long range wide body aircraft (767, 777, 787) and ply some exotic major international routes. Partner with the Tourism Ministry and aggressively market T&T moreso Tobago and other key Caribbean destinations. Watch and see revenues will rise and profits increase. They will create employment directly and indirectly. It's a win win situation. Bring back the glory days when the L1011 T500 was in the fleet.
Dizzy28 wrote:agent007 wrote:What CAL needs to do is get some long range wide body aircraft (767, 777, 787) and ply some exotic major international routes. Partner with the Tourism Ministry and aggressively market T&T moreso Tobago and other key Caribbean destinations. Watch and see revenues will rise and profits increase. They will create employment directly and indirectly. It's a win win situation. Bring back the glory days when the L1011 T500 was in the fleet.
Air travel is very very low margin.
CAL is not going to out-compete the hub models of other long haul carriers.
agent007 wrote:What CAL needs to do is get some long range wide body aircraft (767, 777, 787) and ply some exotic major international routes. Partner with the Tourism Ministry and aggressively market T&T moreso Tobago and other key Caribbean destinations. Watch and see revenues will rise and profits increase. They will create employment directly and indirectly. It's a win win situation. Bring back the glory days when the L1011 T500 was in the fleet.
SPK1983 wrote:agent007 wrote:What CAL needs to do is get some long range wide body aircraft (767, 777, 787) and ply some exotic major international routes. Partner with the Tourism Ministry and aggressively market T&T moreso Tobago and other key Caribbean destinations. Watch and see revenues will rise and profits increase. They will create employment directly and indirectly. It's a win win situation. Bring back the glory days when the L1011 T500 was in the fleet.
Quick suggestion - take some time to research why the POS-LGW route was unprofitable for CAL, even with decent plane occupancy on a pretty consistent basis.
That will give some clarity to your suggestions.
pugboy wrote:piarco is a terrible location to begin
agent007 wrote:Thanks for the info guys. Did not know the 767 was a high maintenance aircraft. I did not take in the entire report but is this high maintenance for CAL based on their budget or higher maintenance than usual for a wide body?
Would switching to an Airbus A330 be a better option?
If exploring options and brain storming suggestions to make CAL profitable is not making any sense then we will need to start conditioning our minds that we can lose CAL for good and our country's airline industry can be totally outsourced. We just don't have the money to keep bailing them out any anymore.
Dohplaydat wrote:agent007 wrote:Thanks for the info guys. Did not know the 767 was a high maintenance aircraft. I did not take in the entire report but is this high maintenance for CAL based on their budget or higher maintenance than usual for a wide body?
Would switching to an Airbus A330 be a better option?
If exploring options and brain storming suggestions to make CAL profitable is not making any sense then we will need to start conditioning our minds that we can lose CAL for good and our country's airline industry can be totally outsourced. We just don't have the money to keep bailing them out any anymore.
Wasn't that plane leased from chartered company? Would the cost have been so much if CAL actually owned the plane?
Maybe that was the plan, to buy a small fleet, because I distinctly remember CAL talking about direct flights to South Africa and Brazil.
triniterribletim wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:agent007 wrote:Thanks for the info guys. Did not know the 767 was a high maintenance aircraft. I did not take in the entire report but is this high maintenance for CAL based on their budget or higher maintenance than usual for a wide body?
Would switching to an Airbus A330 be a better option?
If exploring options and brain storming suggestions to make CAL profitable is not making any sense then we will need to start conditioning our minds that we can lose CAL for good and our country's airline industry can be totally outsourced. We just don't have the money to keep bailing them out any anymore.
Wasn't that plane leased from chartered company? Would the cost have been so much if CAL actually owned the plane?
Maybe that was the plan, to buy a small fleet, because I distinctly remember CAL talking about direct flights to South Africa and Brazil.
I wish there were direct flights to Brazil, would eliminate the need of a 48-24 hour layover in Paramaribo, especially in this COVID-19 era.
j.o.e wrote:triniterribletim wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:agent007 wrote:Thanks for the info guys. Did not know the 767 was a high maintenance aircraft. I did not take in the entire report but is this high maintenance for CAL based on their budget or higher maintenance than usual for a wide body?
Would switching to an Airbus A330 be a better option?
If exploring options and brain storming suggestions to make CAL profitable is not making any sense then we will need to start conditioning our minds that we can lose CAL for good and our country's airline industry can be totally outsourced. We just don't have the money to keep bailing them out any anymore.
Wasn't that plane leased from chartered company? Would the cost have been so much if CAL actually owned the plane?
Maybe that was the plan, to buy a small fleet, because I distinctly remember CAL talking about direct flights to South Africa and Brazil.
I wish there were direct flights to Brazil, would eliminate the need of a 48-24 hour layover in Paramaribo, especially in this COVID-19 era.
Copa via Panama not available still ? This is the one I used to use. Connecting no real layover
triniterribletim wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:agent007 wrote:Thanks for the info guys. Did not know the 767 was a high maintenance aircraft. I did not take in the entire report but is this high maintenance for CAL based on their budget or higher maintenance than usual for a wide body?
Would switching to an Airbus A330 be a better option?
If exploring options and brain storming suggestions to make CAL profitable is not making any sense then we will need to start conditioning our minds that we can lose CAL for good and our country's airline industry can be totally outsourced. We just don't have the money to keep bailing them out any anymore.
Wasn't that plane leased from chartered company? Would the cost have been so much if CAL actually owned the plane?
Maybe that was the plan, to buy a small fleet, because I distinctly remember CAL talking about direct flights to South Africa and Brazil.
I wish there were direct flights to Brazil, would eliminate the need of a 48-24 hour layover in Paramaribo, especially in this COVID-19 era.
agent007 wrote:CAL still has to meet the cost to operate so what should they do?
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