SAX's CRJ 700's
Last (fairly recent) information was that lease agreement still not signed due to Horizon not happy with the financial side - and being a bit selfish about it. Also no ferry contract signed yet. 406 ELT's still being fitted to make the a/c legal outside the USA, etc., etc. Then, on arrival, have to be re-registered, re-sprayed (???), C-checked (???). Once that's done, then it's crew (flightdeck and cabin) to be trained. Some flightdeck crew have already completed the technical and simulator differences courses at CST in Berlin and CAE in Montreal and just need to do the 5 take-offs and landings (in the aircraft) to legalise the whole process and to make SACAA happy. All of this then makes it anybody's guess as to when the first scheduled flight will REALLY take place, despite SAX's scheduling department's optimism!!!