Jul 06 2012
On July 6th, 2012, the first Embraer 170 for California Pacific Airlines was delivered to the airline after being painted in the airline’s livery. The airline still plans to begin operations from the McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California this fall. The airline plans to fly between Carlsbad and Cabo San Lucas, Las Vegas, Oakland, Phoenix, Sacramento and San …
Jun 30 2012
Water ingestion and flooded runway tests have begun for the Comac ARJ21 regional jet program. On June 28th, 2012, high speed taxi tests were conducted at Xi’an Yanliang airport with representatives of CAAC and the FAA in attendance. The tests initially began on June 22 with taxi, landing and take off tests on one of …
Jun 30 2012
Delta Air Lines and its regional jet pilot union announced that a vote had approved a new contact on June 30th, 2012 which will mean changes to the airline’s regional jet fleet going into the future. The contract will allow Delta to add more, larger, regional jets and remove smaller 50-seat regional jets which are …
