Canadian airline has planes older than the oldest CalMac ferry and an average age 22% higher

April 15, 2024 johnrobertson834

Thanks to one of our Anonymous readers for suggesting this. CalMac’s oldest large ferry, the MV Isle of Arran is 41 this year. The average age of a CalMac ferry is 24 years. From Airline Ratings in December 2023: Boasting one of the oldest passenger aircraft is Canadian Air Inuit with four 737-200’s averaging an age of 44 years. The airline also has a 737-300 aged 32 years and 15 Dash-8’s at an average age of 29 years. Three 737-800s aged just 11 years held bring the average fleet age for the airline down to 29.4 years. https://www.airlineratings.com/news/passenger-news/oldest-commercial-aircraft-still-flying/#:~:text=Inuit%20Air%2C%20Iran%20Air%20and,well%20over%2040%20years%20old.&text=Boasting%20one%20of%20the%20oldest,an%20age%20of%2044%20years I don’t … Continue reading Canadian airline has planes older than the oldest CalMac ferry and an average age 22% higher

Only in Scotland would a service performing so well relative to its peers be the target of headline negativity

April 1, 2024 johnrobertson834

By stewartb ‘STV is becoming as anti-Scottish as BBC Scotland’ – as evidenced by its practice of context and perspective-free reporting. It would be so easy and quick for STV better to inform its audience – and voters – but that would require different journalistic/editorial objectives. To further fill the void in STV’s reporting, what follows is from the Office of Road and Rail (7 March 2023) ‘Passenger rail performance, 1 October to 31 December 2023’. (https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/jkfh21zr/performance-stats-release-oct-dec-2023.pdf ) Scotrail – 11.8 percentage point increase on same period in 2022. Just seven out of 24 operators had a larger increase. Scotrail – … Continue reading Only in Scotland would a service performing so well relative to its peers be the target of headline negativity