Canadian Regional Airline To Remove Life Vests

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 6:15pm

A regional airline in Canada, (Jazz) will remove life vests to save room & fuel.

At least the passengers would not have to listen to the obligatory speech before takeoff. Of course, if you really need it tough luck.

From cnn.com

[heathurrr]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 6:32pm

Ah, yet another reason to add to my list of reasons not to fly Air Canada!

[Tag]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 9:02pm

First of all, it's not Air Canada.
Second, the seat cushions are to be used as floatation devices.
Third, the airline rarely travels over water. When it does, the airplane stays within a certain regulated distance from shore.

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 9:05pm

Fourth, if your plane's going down, you don't need any vest or device.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 9:27pm

sheesh Roxy do you research before you post? It's like screaming as you fall out of a boat 'I CAN'T SWIM" and the boat is in your backyard.......

ya don't need lifevests if they aren't flying over water

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 10:10pm

A thousand pardons

I offer my humble apologies.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 12:12am

That is the closest I have ever seen Roxy ever come to admitting he was wrong. Good job, Rox! History was made twice tonight!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 2:27am

In all honesty if my plane is going down I'd rather have an ejection seat and a parachute. Not a life vest.

[winston89]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 10:11am

"Second, the seat cushions are to be used as floatation devices."


To quote George Carlin. "imagine that, my seat cushion can be used as a flotation device. That's what I need, to float around the North Atlantic for several days clinging to a pillow full of beer farts."

[heathurrr]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 10:59am

"First of all, it's not Air Canada."
Jazz is affiliated with Air Canada.

http://www.flyjazz.ca/english/aboutUs/presMessage.asp

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 11:03am

I vaguely remember one crash that these were able to be used.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 11:04am

If the plane is going down, and you're over a body of water, that flotation device isn't going to help you much. Based on what I've read, those jets aren't equipped to land in water, and you'd all be dead by the time the plane hit the water anyway.

Sorry to be a negative nancy. lol

[jenna2]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 12:00pm

I didn't know they had life vests on Jazz flights. Anytime I've ever flown them all I've heard is that, as Tag said, the seat cushions can be used as flotation devices.

Perhaps I'm usually too frightened by the fact that I'm seated on a rickety, old bush plane to pay 100% attention to the monotone safety recording though.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 8/29/08 at 2:34pm

A good friend is a flight attendant w AC and he says it has to do w the range between the water and nearest land ( 50K I believe) so TAG is right. He also thinks that this will be reevaluated as it is being done simply to save wt = fuel= $$