50 seat RJ question
03-19-2020 | 04:55 PM
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50 seat RJ question
How do the CRJ 200 and ERJ 145 compare? I’m not interested in who is the best or worst airline, just the actual machines. How do they compare in fuel efficiency, maintenance reliability, load limited issues, age of the fleet, operating cost, etc?
03-19-2020 | 05:06 PM
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03-19-2020 | 05:38 PM
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Wow! I’ve never flown the 200 but I find I absolutely bake in the 145 cockpit in the summer. But that’s largely due to the fact the APU (which drives the packs soooo much better than the engines) are often MELd in the summer.
03-19-2020 | 05:41 PM
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03-19-2020 | 06:05 PM
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03-19-2020 | 06:36 PM
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Well, yeah, if the APU is working. But the APU seems to fail a lot in the summer... or maybe I’m thinking of APU bleed leaks. In any case, I think I have a working APU for packs about half the time in July and August. There are pilots at my airline that change the way they bid in the summer because of it. There are mechanics at my airline that change the way they bid to reduce their exposure to the 145 because of it. Nobody wants the 145 in the summer. That said, my airline doesn’t fly the 200 so not saying the 200 is worse. If it is, man, that sucks.
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