Miami (MIA) is my home airport, and I like to keep a close eye on some of the unique ”visitors” the airport gets. While I’m not in Florida at the moment, it looks like the airport had a rare visitor yesterday, and I couldn’t help but do a bit of digging.
Continue reading: Why Is A SWISS Airbus A220 In Miami?!
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I saw it's tail over the wall by the private terminal on the north side of MIA this morning and there was a lot of people directing traffic holding signs that said "special event" pointing them towards the terminal
The A220-100 & 300 would be ideal aircraft for Avianca & LátAm to replace their aging A319s A320s. These aircraft would be especially beneficial for AV being in Northern South America & Central America allowing them to start longer thin international flights with these vert efficient planes & operate profitably where they can’t do this with the older Airbus fleet.
Flew the Swiss A220 when it first started operating. I remember it being a good experience, with it's huge windows and especially as the seats were comfortable for me as a tall person. Would love to see more A220's in America.
I love this aircraft, specially the whale like noise the engines make lol. I flew on it RDU-LGA so comfortable and smooth
I split my time living between San Francisco and Nice France and often route I take is via Zurich. Swiss has been flying this for a while on that route and I really like it!
Good evening,
As a swiss employee, I can confirm you that the flight is operated by Swiss Airlines pilots with cabin crew and additional Swiss engineers.
5 cabin crew based in Zurich and 1 from Geneva base.
If Swiss helps Airbus to with extra flights and time on the ground, Swiss incurs costs. What do they get from Airbus?
Hard to believe this jet was nearly in the grave. Now it's the hottest think out there! Glad Boeing was unable to squash it.
I’m standing behind the tail now. You can see it over the wall at the north end by Signature.
As far as I know, it will fly with stops in MEX and PTY to SCL in the next days, so no further stops in the US.
These aircraft are assembled in the US, not 50 miles from where I sit. Why fly one across for this promotional tour?
The airbus a220 was originally designed by Bombardier in Canada. After Boeing originated tariff wars against the plane and before tariffs were removed the possibility of selling the plane diminished greatly.
Airbus bought the rights to the technology for $1.00. What other benefits Bombardier or other investment partners got, I have no idea.
What I do know is that this plane was fantastic and it was unfortunate that Bombardier couldn't continue to merchandise and sell the "C" series plane.