Paul Stoddart Announces OzJet

[404 Titan]

California's "John Wayne Airport in the US is probably the world's most noise -sensitive airport and the whisper jet is the only aircraft that has been approved to operate in and out of that airport", he said.

Really, that's interesting because my wife only flew out of that airport two weeks ago for Northern California and it was in a B737.

While the whole idea of Ozjet sounds good on paper I believe the biggest hurdle they are going to have is residents around the airports. They, I believe will be the death nail to the Ozjet proposal.

[ground-run]

Good post Zero but I think you over-simplify the fume problem. If only it were a case of over servicing! I worked for 12 years maintaining 146's and the problems we had with fumes were usually caused by degraded oil seals within the APU and/or to problems keeping the APU bay adequately sealed off from the intake plenum. Having said that, it'll be good to see these a/c back in the air so good luck to them.

[fruitloop]

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Personally I think that once the apu bay was "vented" the probs diminished and if the bean-counters put the "cats"back it could have made it a better system.I hope it works out for stoddy for all concerned.

[farqueue]

If this does go ahead, ASA will have the pressure on them to put fire and rescue back. Good news for Trident I guess.

The other detail, is that no low cost airline that has started up with 146s has survived.

[spagiola]

California's "John Wayne Airport in the US is probably the world's most noise -sensitive airport and the whisper jet is the only aircraft that has been approved to operate in and out of that airport", he said.

As someone has already pointed out, this is wrong. Many other jet types can and do operate from SNA all the time. What is true is that, when the 146s were introduced at SNA, they were cleared to fly an un-limited number of movements. All other types available at the time has strict limits on the number of movements allowed on any given day and equally strict noise abatement rules, which often imposed severe payload penalties, particularly on hot days.

[*Lancer*]

Is the Australian public (and more importantly the Sydney public) smart enough to realise how quiet the 146 is? They're more likely to hear the word 'jet' and it will all fall in a heap. Without the government support to approve and upgrade (no small task) the airports to 'jet' RPT standards, the airline will be dead in the water.

[Dale Harris]

Unfortunately it seems that the sooks have already won one round. According to the Melbourne Herald Sun this morning, Essendon Airport management have put the stops to his efforts to operate out of there.........