Flying on Air Canada's... Mitsubishi?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- The Canadair Regional Jet family of aircraft is another one of Bombardier's commercial aircraft programs that was sold off as part of their exiting the commercial aircraft market.
The CRJ program was bought by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan, with the deal closing in June of 2020. Let's see what it's like flying on Air Canada Express' Mitsubishi/Bombardier CRJ-900!
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FLIGHT INFORMATION
Airline: Air Canada Express (ACA/AC)
Aircraft: Mitsubishi/Bombardier CRJ-900 (CRJ9)
Flight Number: AC8722
Seat: 19A
Livery: New (2017)
Engines: 2x GE CF34-8C5
Registration: C-FBJZ
Route: Regina (YQR) - Montreal (YUL)
Callsign: JAZZ 722
Runway used: 31 (YQR) - 06R (YUL)
Date filmed: August 2021
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It's a crime! Mitsubishi!?!?!?!? Hate that the Gov't bailed out Bombardier only to sell out!!! Aviation in Canada has a rich history. I can't call them Mitsubishi. Never will...yes, I'm stubborn and grumpy before you ask!
Uhh... Am I the only one noticing this guy at 8:47 ? He sure is working hard xD
Bombardier sounds so good tho. welp
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I thought this was a *Canadair* Regional Jet. Does no one remember Canadair??
Yes. The original govt money bloodsucker.
I do. As a South African. Flew in one in 2002. Canadair Expressjet.
Man I thought they were a crappy regional jet
I do. Candair instead of a stupid name like Mitsubishi
The exit rows have no window shade so that they can be looked out and checked for danger ASAP during an evacuation
I had another reason but this one is also quite plausible
@@9Y-PRI_Aviation what did you think of?
@@sondremathias8984 I thought the reason behind the no window shades was so that light can easily pass through in an emergency, making it a bit easier to locate the emergency exits rather than if they had window shades, they might be slam shut in a crash landing, making it harder to identify
@@9Y-PRI_Aviation Okay. Thank you for your answer. Yeah I absolutely think that this can be the case. I’m kind of new to this topic so i’m not going to guess something myself. But I think you have some good points 👍🏻
I think there’s just no space to put in a shade mechanism
5:30 lol. I think one of the reasons behind the no window shades is in case of an emergency during the day, the window shades will not slam shut and block the light from coming through. The light coming through can help survivors find the exit row more swiftly
8:30 The Casual Air Creebec lol
Avro Arrow-gone. C Series is now a Airbus 220. CRJ now a Mitsubishi. Not a very good track record for our Canadian aviation industry.
During Bombarider's first brush with Bankruptcy after 9-11, it was bailed out by the Beaudoin family (descendants of Armand Bombardier) who bought the recreational prducts division (the original Bombardier) from Bombardier Inc. The family that created the company were not allowed to use the "Bombardier" branding, so what used to be Bombardier is now BRP.
When Longview/Viking Air bought (progressively) all the ex deHavilland products from Bombardier, there was no branding problem because Bombardeir had bad reputation of abandonning these products (sucy as Twin Otter which Viking restarted), and the Dash-8 which Bombardier saw no future anymore since it was so focus on C-Series only. The water bombers had remained well known aroudn the wrld as "Canadairs" (like Q-Tips).
so when Viking got them, there was no need to use "Bombardier".
I have to assume that the name change for the CRJs is also due to legal requirement to stop using the Bombardier brand. Also, MHI wants to establish its name in the industry (which is why it bought the CRJ to get contacts within aviation industry) so would explain push to get airlines to use the Mitsubishi brand for CRJs.
Nitpick: MHI did get "sales" but that refers mostly to parts and used/leased aircraft. They did not get anyt production capacity. Prior to transaction closing Bombardier delivered the last new CRJ and closed production line. The hangars at Mirabel were set to be sold to IArbus so it could increase C-Series production. Not sure if this happened. But MHI did not buy any capacity to build new ones.
The one remaining question is what happens to the "Bombardier" name when what is left of Bombardier sells its remaining 2 private jets (Challenger and Global 7500) to anothetr company and folds. Will the name go back to the Beaudoin family and they can rename BRP back to Bombardier focused only on recrational products?
6:00 Row 27 also doesn't have windows. I know this from personal experience on a flight from Winnipeg to Calgary. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day ruined lol.
This plane will always be a Bombardier to me.
“Dragged my head along the ceiling to my exit row seat”
Sorry not sorry! Me like most americans, we always laugh at the way Canadians pronounce Regina.
It makes me laugh every time LOL
Pretty cool that you flew over the factory that built your plane at 6:48.
On the Left hand side when exiting the runway.
@@georgewyatt2924 The Challenger, Global Express and the original CRJ200s were made in Dorval, they relocated to Mirabel for the longer CRJ 900s and 1000s
They still operate it as "Airbus Canada" and assemble some Airbus models there right?
@@ljpr360 At the moment only A220s is being built there.
@@ljpr360 Yes, that's the A220 plant in Mirabel
The newer cabins on these crjs actually make these planes preferable to ac’s a321s
speaking from experience, a Rouge A321 from tampa to toronto was honestly the worst flight i've ever had abd I've run the gammit on shit flight such a flight were i got an entire row of seats to myself still being worse than an utterly packed LOT 787 from Toronto to Warsaw largely cause of the utter lack of IFE poor meal service (not free btw) and little to no drink service.
My aunt flew from Toronto to Regina in one of these aircraft on December 17, it was weird, when the aircraft she travelled on was called a Mitsubishi I was like wth 😂
Air Canada has probably one of the best CRJ-900 economy cabins out there. Yes the IFE screens are old, but they still function, and the seats are quite comfortable and well padded. I have done the YYC - IAH route on one of these and found them to be nicer than the United 737 aircraft.
Even the CRJ-200 on Air Canada isn't shabby compared to other airlines. I say this even after having to wait an extra hou and a half inside a CRJ-200 just for ground crew to arrive and put the bags in the plane.
I have done that route several times on both, and yes, they are the preferable option
@@thecaynuck4694 I agree. I'd rather do the CRJ-200 of AC any day over the United A320 fleet, which are fitted with those Recaro slimline. I get that the CRJ is a smaller aircraft but once you're in the seat, it doesn't feel all that cramped.
@@thecaynuck4694Looks like a replacement for the DC-9.
To me this beautiful aircraft will always remain a Bombardier. Not a damn car name.
nobody tell him about the honda jet
@@alexm566 Or Zero fighters from WWII?
Yeah, and not a car manufacturer with soft engine parts that go all gooey and blow up at high RPM. Please not that name.
Whatever they were built as....Bombardier.
Oh my...I've been on this route (YYC-YQR) many times (in-law's in Yorkton). Gotta appreciate the "bustling" Regina airport. Thanks for sharing. This plane quickly became my favorite. Although I love the Dash-8's, the CRJs are always quiet and comfortable. I'm 6'5" and I've got plenty of legroom in any row. I do find the seat bottoms a bit flat, if not sloped downward which feels like I'm sliding down toward the floor.
good to know about the leg room the video was nice but not everyone will find the exit seats available
Flying in Economy 😔 Was wondering if it is worth upgrading to 12 F. Its a Bulkhead. I am wondering about the view mostly for window. Thanks guys.
Update: 12F has a window but it's a wall next to the seat and you have to bend forward to look out as the window is a foot ahead. Do not get 12F if you like window seat to look outside. My rollway did not fit in the overhead as its too small. I would not fly this aircraft again.
1:14 - Pfweh. Like Canadians scare me... "ITS A MITSUBISHI NOT A BOMBARDIER"
2:28 - Lol @ seeing the difference between French culture and American culture. French welcomes you, American thanks you for choosing.
You can now book a Toronto YYZ ON to Regina SK YQR on a Airbus A220 300 they must be retiring this Oder Jets like this one your on in this video I am booking next month to visit family also check out Regina has a little Maple Leaf Lounge now too on my return flight ✈️ I check that out
I refuses to call it a Mitsubishi... It will always be the CRJ.
I do miss the Jazz CRJ9 Flight from Calgary to Houston. I was hoping to get on it. But then COVID happened, now I have to wait. Lol
And I refuse to call the CSeries the A220.
Calgary to Houston should be restarting in the new year :)
The only "900" suitable for long distance travel... 😅
This deal must have been a busy (and lucrative) time for French-Japanese translators!
Sorry I still stand by that it should still be referred to as a Bombardier CRJ since it was built under Bombardier and not Mitsubishi the same way you would not call a DC-10, MD-11, MD-88 (ok all mostly retired but you can get the point) a Boeing ____ . Last Christmas we ended up flying 4 hours on a American Airlines CRJ700 operated by Skywest which was originally supposed to be a A319. Even in first class 4 hours is too long in a CRJ especially with not IFE and no working wi-fi.
McDonel Douglass was purchsed by Boeing, Boeing owns the "McD" trademark so you could theoretically still call its McD DC-10.
Mitsubishi only bought the rights to the CRJ product line, a dead/retired product, it did not buy the rights to use "Bombardier" name.
Bombardier had stopped new sales of CRJs (since it was focusing on C-Series) and ceased production of the last orders before transaction to Mitsibishi.
I so got used to fast wifi in the 1960s. Can't do without. 😂😊
3hrs on a CRJ is np, it does .70 and is above the bumps. better than 1hr in a 1900c
For me it's a Mitsubishi. At least until Quebec allows the Energy East pipeline to be built.
Regina. Oh, ok. I need to have my ears checked.
I vote call it by who made it not by who carries the parts catalog.
Mitsubishi jumped on this due to the MRJ Mitsubishi Regional Jet never really got a publicity it needed
5:47 You can just bring your kids for the tight lavatory in the CRJ's
Thanks for the video! Great Job! First time flyer here for upcoming trip. Love watching your video to calm my nerves. Will be flying on one of these.
Great video! I wonder if AC plans to phase out the PTV's on their CRJ's.. Your aircraft was one of the earlier examples Jazz received in the mid-2000's... back then they were known as CRJ-705's and flew fairly long distance flights like KIAH-CYYZ and KORD-CYVR... recently though, all the older models have been re-identified as CRJ-900's. Through Jazz Aviation has since been taking deliveries of new examples of the -900 since about 2016, only a handful of their "NextGen" models have the IFE system... all of the ones delivered in the last couple of years have the same seats and layout, but lack the IFE.. I'm hoping they either install IFE on the newest models they have or try and assign the shorter flights to those jets. for right now it really is inconsistent and it seems like you lucked out my friend! Cheers!
I flew on one of their CRJ-900LR's last week (C-FJGZ) that was only a year old and it was one that didn't have any IFE. They were running it on a route from Vancouver-Calgary-Winnipeg and back again.
The 900's taken from Skywest had no IFE and I don't think they plan to install new ones. Not sure about the next gen series. Westjet's 737 max's don't have IFE while AC does so I thought AC would want all their aircraft to have that perk. I guess not.
On till Mitsubishi produces them it will be a Bombardier. Just like the deHavilland Beaver, Viking has had the type certificate for years and it’s still know as the deHavilland Beaver.
i just love my "free drinks available for purchase"
Re-gina like Va-gina? Or is it Re-Jeena? lol I chuckled everytime you said it like Jy-na.
It is indeed Re-gina 😁
@@e5i50 🤣😅 Noted! Lol
Anything else is punishable by death🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was on a CRJ-900 recently from Munich to Wroclaw. I had the emergency exit seat. The leg space was unbelievable! More than on any other plane that I could remember.
Couldn't believe it when I saw that the flight number is actually the same as my home address🤣🤣
I be flying on crj 900 to Toronto next month july 10
Well done. Any freebies from AC for this video?
1:14 I am Canadian and I approve this message
Hey Alex! Finally! was waiting to see the 2nd part of ur trip from YYC! great video (as always!!!) and I learnt something new --- i didnt know that Bombardier had sold off the CRJ fleet to Mitsubishi!!! go figure!!! after ur review, ill try to book a trip on one m'self! question for u ---- on approach into YUL, was that Mirabel airport that u flew over ????? and as always, thanks much for another awesome trip review!!! PLEASE keep 'em coming! All the very best to u and yours for 2022! cheers bro,
Yes, it was Mirabel! Thanks so much :)
I will be flying Air Canada's CRJ-200 from IND to YVR in July in the exit row. Rather looking forward to it as I will then be on my way to Manchester, UK.
So what’s left of Bombarder? Trains are sold to Alstom, commercial planes went to Airbus, De Havilland and Mitsubishi. All that’s left is a few private jets. Are they restructuring debt so they can bounce back or are the executives liquidating everything and running away?
It’s what happens when you make an utter and total mess of developing a (for the company) very big project. It doesn’t matter how good the product is, if you run out of money and lose the confidence of the market doing the development your done for.
@@ATH_Berkshire you mean lose the market via an unscrupulous Boeing that is the last attempt to end the Canadian aircraft industry because we are at the end
Wait, what? DE Haviland is back?
I was training at Regina during the summer!
Cool to see in TH-cam. Also I love those T-tails
Rip Bombardier
I like the CRJ 900 between Vancouver and Regina
Air Canada has turned into such a crappy airline. There was a time this flight would have had a Boeing 767.
Air Canada mainline has never flown YQR-YUL, so forget a 767. It was only the advent of the longer range aircraft at Jazz that allowed it. (Also YQR-YOW).
Back in the “monopoly” days, AC did fly DC-8-60s between YQR and YYZ though. (Replete with movies!). A 767 would have been an equipment sub.
The walk of shame lol
One flew over my area once, and I was like wtf when I saw the name change
I laughed so hard at Dave Chappelle's meme. I even read it in his voice!
I fly on this plane 2x a week for work. Pretty decent plane
At least the safety card remembers it's real name.
Flew the type for 2years and a half for the express carrier. Amazing plane
Oh what engines eh, oh wow.
Awesome flight onboard CRJ900 C-FBJZ I do love the CRJ900s
Talking about old names, I remember flying on those many times when they were Bombardier CRJ-705s
"...So despite it being 3 hours on the CRJ..." It seems to me that 3 hours from Regina to Montreal is the going rate for any commercial Airliner
Ontario is huge! It's so easy to forget that.
He he... He said Regina! Seriously, Video screens on a CRJ is nice but 3 hours with no option to buy a meal is just plane wrong.
I’ve never seen someone make a video flying out of YQR Regina airport and to watch this really excited me and I acctualy 1 month ago went on this flight and it was awsome it was my first time flying aswell I was in row 26B and it didn’t have a lot of leg room but it did work. Thank you for reviewing it you earned a Subscriber!
Comical to refer to the CRJ as a Mitsubishi lol. Mitsubishi has not produced a commercial aircraft in decades (the MRJ project is delayed indefinitely)- they have about as much claim to the CRJ as Boeing does to the classic DH8 (Boeing actually owned the DH8 program in the early 1990's between the Dehavilland and Bombardier ownership)
I always wondered why you called them Mitsubishi CRJ900's in the spotting videos because I always knew they were from Bombardier, well now I know why, thanks for explaining
Yea, but that's wrong. Mitsubushi hasn't built any. So they're still Bombardier.
@@lorenzoFCIM1908 True. I actually prefer saying Bombardier over Mitsubishi
i've been one these ones a few times. i was going home from KORD to CYVR and crossed the border and was home.
I flew an Air Canada CRJ200 between Regina and Vancouver once. While the legroom was fine, I found the abreast room to be extremely tight. (FWIW, not sure why, but I also find Westjet's 737 configuration tightly awkward)
Since then I've avoided any itinerary with a CRJ - I'll take a a Dash 8-300 (or guess now Q400) if need to be.
Ah, Regina. The Canadian city that gave its name to a Swedish electric train, despite Regina itself not having electrified rail. Bombardier built six sligthly different variants for Swedish regional transit agencies and trans-regional train partnerships.
I think the CRJ was going to be rebranded as SpaceJet, but it didn't quite sell under Mitsubishi ownership, only exasterbated by the pandemic. So MHI quietly discontinued the program during or after the pandemic.
I had no idea the CRJs had IFEs lol
Most two-class regional jets (at least here in the states) have wireless entertainment, but seatback screens are really something.
Another great one! 👍 BTW, I would have added a comment about the name change but you beat me to it 🤣 although I would’ve gone as far as the one you showed! 😇
I flue in an extra legroom seat from Toronto to Miami Florida on air Canada rouge the inflight in flight entertainment system via the app didn’t work I wasn’t happy it a good thing I had movies and tv shows on my iPad uploaded on my iPad on the way home we flew on a tinny Arbus 1 that was about to be retired it had a business class in a 2 to configuration
In economy 2 3 to configuration
On air Canada rouges it was a 3 3 3 configuration with the same as the extra legroom seat for both ways going from Toronto to mia and from mia to Toronto
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Flying J on the Mitsubishi 900LR with AC is actually pretty comfortable!
Also flew on air canada. The aircraft was different flew on a embraer 175. The flight was from New York JFK to Toronto YYZ. Air Canada AC 8555. Flight #.
Flew on a westjet encore dash 8400 bombardier one day from Calgary to Edmonton the flight was. It was westjet ws 3143 flight #. The aircraft is good. Service is good. As well a 1 hour flight so they never serve anything except water so that's how.
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We are used to having real Mitsubishi aircraft here in Africa. Most excellent turboprops that do the "milk run" daily Windhoek - Johannesburg.
My friends Japanese grandpa used to fly Mitsubishis.
6:47 Mirabel - YMX
Funny thing. Embraer killed Bombardier, but it has been tragic for itself.
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It's not a Mitubishi. Production had stopped by the time they purchased the CRJ line. And there was no official name change. Just check the ICAO type code website and no mention of Mitsubishi. As for airlines calling it mitsubishi...which airlines...only people i know you call it mitsubishi are avgeeks. Aviation enthusiasts call it what it is bombardier, as does the aviation industry. This is yet more mis-information by people that do not know how to check the facts.
I wonder if my type rating still works with the new name 😁
I was the last person on a flight from LaGuardia to Minneapolis due to a COVID test fiasco back in September. I feel for you Alex.
This aircraft is insufficient for flights to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. With a headwind, it can not carry a full itinerary with luggage and enough fuel. Most of the luggage was left behind on my flight in order to carry fuel for headwind and alternate airport.
I just booked 19 A&B. Based on ur review. Seat guru is not that great on this aircraft. It shows the seat behind as a better option. They look the same ?
shitty little planes with really small seats. Work horses for many airlines and make cash
Name doesn't make any sense, the aircraft is no longer built, so how can a maintenance agreement by Mitsubishi make it anything other than a Bombardier built aircraft????
Embraer 190 much more comfortable and convenient 😀
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After billions of Canadians handouts we dump another industry
I’m used to calling the CRJ the Bombardier CRJ
I've flown on this one too
Great views ! Thanks
Mistsibishi hardly did anything to the CRJ, therefore it should remain the "Bombardier CRJ." Sucks that other aircraft companies are now claiming Canadian aircraft after buying them from Bombardier.
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at 7:22 you can see a thomas cook 757 i thought they ceased operations no?
Replace the r in Regina with a v