Jett i son

The new minimalist logo communicates the bare fares idea...
I much prefer the current one for the AC.
Any votes?

flyboyike

Skittles stays.

JoeyMeatballs

I think I saw 627 this morning in FLL.......

RP4242

627 came in around 1500L yesterday from YYR. Her first official day of ops is May 20th but could be rotated around as needed before that.

Brokeasspot

What takes so long for it to be put on the line?

Qotsaautopilot

The new prereclined seats make the ones in the 320s look like windows 3.0

Sailor

I like the bumble bee!! Yellow tail black logo, black letters. Like a cab.

bruhaha

Don't know about Spirit Ops specifically, but I took new deliveries of CRJ-700's from Bombardier at another airline and after importing the aircraft from Canada, the aircraft have to go thru a conformity check with the FAA, and get approved to get placed on the airline OpSpec as an authorized aircraft and the aircraft has to get accepted into the airline's weight and balance program and maintenance program, prior to being released to the line.

Prior to that, the airline's normal weight and balance and maintenance procedures don't apply, and at least with the CRJ-700's it was back to weight x arm = moment for everything that's on the airplane - unusable engine oil, water, ballast, each passenger, catering, catering carts, blue juice, etc. just like private pilot days, convert that to %CG MAC and then figure out takeoff trim setting.

All of the aircraft parts had to be entered by serial number into the maintenance computers for tracking for whatever purpose. And if something broke prior to getting introduced into the airline maintenance program, our airline mechanics couldn't work on the aircraft.

I think with Spirit, they have to get authorization for the specific aircraft to operate in another countries' airspace by N-number. There is a dispatch document which specifies where each aircraft is not allowed to go until they get authorization from the foreign country.

Just my guess anyways as to why it takes so long to get an aircraft online. It was like a 2 day process for the last airline.

RP4242

bruhaha more or less outlined what happens on a high level pretty closely. There are some minor variations/additions what happens on the NK ops spec.

It takes a bit longer usually than 2 days for the frame to enter the spec here. The down time between the initial arrival of the aircraft and EIS is a pretty standard timeframe set to create a buffer in case anything goes wrong in which case you have to go fishing for planes, usually at the expense of a spare. Its best to have a more conservative plan when it comes to this stuff which more often than not allows for "soft testing" to rotate the aircraft through a few times before it is really needed to pick up its scheduled lines of flying.

Sailor

I notice that 529 was fitted the new "bucket style" seats, witch it provides more legroom, even on the last row, thicker seat cushion (than 320s), wider isle, people can actually roll their bags, and even when somebody stops, another person can get around, that much room. It also comes with just 2 bungee cords (no pocket-net), and a tray the size of a small tablet. Also the are somewhat lighter that the other seats.

The comfort is day and night, specially for tall people.

I wonder if we are retrofitting all of them!?