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Not so nice after all, eh?

Canadians are inconsiderate travelers — even more so than those boisterous, barefooted Americans, if you can believe it. The verdict comes from an Expedia airplane etiquette survey, which ranked each nationality in terms of their travel manners.

Don’t let that seemingly non-stop barrage of viral videos featuring ugly Americans fool you — because the US earns high marks across the board for friendly flying.

Nearly 50 percent of Americans are willing to change their seats, the most out of all the countries ranked by the travel company. Meanwhile, only a third of the Canucks surveyed would consider swapping seats so families can sit together.

Heavy bag? Find an American: About half the time, someone from the US will help another traveler lift their luggage into an overhead bin. Fussy baby? Look for that red, white and blue — 21 percent of US travelers have helped entertain someone else’s kiddo. Just 14 percent of Canadians said they’ve done the same.

And we’ll opt for that ginger ale over a vodka soda, thank you very much. Almost all the Americans surveyed said they’ve never gotten wasted on a flight. They wouldn’t want to be “that guy,” like one drunk Russian man was when he got into a fight with an Aeroflot flight attendant over a lit cigarette, breaking her leg. He was

Article source: https://nypost.com/2019/06/13/americans-are-nicer-than-canadians-airplane-etiquette-survey-reports/

While the FAA is “under a lot of pressure,” he said the Max will be returned to service “when we believe it will be safe,” following reviews of the design, flight testing and other checks. Bahrami was reluctant to provide a timeline, but when asked whether the plane would resume service this year or next, he said remarks by Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg projecting a return by the end of 2019 sounded correct.

Article source: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boeing-737-max-fly-again-december-20190612-story.html

While the first variant of Mitsubishi’s new regional jet is currently being flight tested at Moses Lake in Central Washington, the Japanese industrial giant announced Thursday a smaller, reconfigured and rebranded model designed to hit a sweet spot for U.S. airlines.

Goodbye to the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) and hello to the SpaceJet, a name intended to convey to passengers that its spacious cabin offers as much room and comfort as any mainline jet. A mock-up of the proposed new interior will be on display next week at the Paris Air Show.

More significant than the new name, Mitsubishi has stretched the fuselage of this second member of its regional jet (RJ) family to provide the maximum passenger capacity allowed within U.S. restrictions on RJs. That transforms a jet that wasn’t selling into one that’s the ideal size for U.S. airlines.

The global business of producing regional jets — those small, often uncomfortable, sub-100-seat airplanes that major airlines typically fly domestically on less popular routes — has rapidly consolidated as Bombardier of Canada is leaving the business and Boeing is buying the RJ business of Embraer of Brazil.

Mitsubishi is seizing the moment by developing this new model while simultaneously making a bid for Bombardier’s regional jet business to provide a ready-made sales and support infrastructure in North America.

That looks likely to produce an unexpected twist. In the coming years, Mitsubishi may find itself in a position it always said it would avoid: head-to-head competition with Boeing.

And there’s even a whispered chance that

Article source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/mitsubishi-revamps-its-regional-jet-as-it-aims-for-a-u-s-market-breakthrough/

These cancellations may include flights on planes that are not Boeing 737 Max aircraft, in order to use the planes on Max routes that require coverage, the airline said.

Article source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boeing-737-max-cancellations_n_5cfd46a7e4b02ee34778d327

Article source: https://torontosun.com/news/world/model-blasted-for-complaining-about-crying-baby-on-plane