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Should Hawaiian Airlines Replace Their Boeing 717's With Airbus A220's?
byNicholas Cummins
Hawaiian Airlines is currently battling against several issues. Southwest has recently launched flights to the island state, and if that wasn't bad enough, is rumored to also be about to offer inter-island travel. In addition to that news, Hawaiian Airlines' fleet of Boeing 717 aircraft (now at 18 years old, with the first delivered back in 2001) are starting to show their age. Will customers prefer to fly in the old 717s or the Southwest 737?
Should Hawaiian Airlines choose to replace their fleet of aging Boeing 717s? Photo: Simple Flying.
Or, is there a third option, Hawaiian Airlines replacing their fleet of 717s with something new like the A220?
Why does the Boeing 717 suit Hawaiian so well?
The Boeing 717 is light, fast and cheap. It's lightness suits the aircraft, which will spend most of the day taking off from various small landing strips. It can be turned around on a dime and has the ability to land at smaller airports (many of the routes Hawaiian flies them on are 20-60 minutes long).
The engines are durable and withstand up to 16 takeoff and landing cycles per day, year in and year out, which Hawaiian uses to run up to 202 flights a day across their network.
But despite being light and dynamic, the aircraft can still carry 128 passengers in a two-class configuration (120 economy and 8 in recliner first class).
A Hawaiian Airlines B717. Photo: Hawaiian Airlines
But the aircraft is now starting to get old, so it's time Hawaiian looked at investing in a new 'domestic' fleet.
What about the Airbus A220?
In steps the A220-100. With a capacity of 135 passengers in a 3 – 2 configuration and the ability to land at short runways, the Canadian built aircraft by way of Alabama would be a perfect replacement for the Hawaiian Boeing 717 fleet. The plane is modern, featuring a better passenger environment, generous seats and a window in the lavatory.
The range on this aircraft is so good that it could actually double as a link to the US west coast, as well as distant regional islands. Whether or not passengers will want to fly on such a small plane over the vast Pacific remains to be seen, but they are doing a similar journey with Southwest, so anything is possible.
There is a concern that the aircraft is a bit heavy and would burn more fuel than the Boeing 717, but thanks to modern engine technologies, most of this can be averted.
What about the Embraer E2 series?
Some other commentators, like Jeff Setter at Boarding Area have suggested that the E2 would be a better fit than the A220.
The Embraer E195-E2. Image Source: Embraer
Namely, with a bigger cargo carrying capacity, the E195-E2 would allow Hawaiian to operate more profitable routes (cargo is a huge profit driver for airlines). Whilst this is true, as we have shown before, the A220-100 ends up being the slightly better of the two.
Will this step of replacing their aging fleet be enough to beat off Southwest? Some industry experts seem to think so.
"Hawaiian is used to having people come in and out of their market all the time," says Helane Becker, Managing Director, Industrials/Consumer-Airlines with Cowen. "They do a good job of responding. They have a strong balance sheet and they're continuing to grow their operations, build out what they do, replace older aircraft with new, and deliver a really good product to their customers."
What do you think, should Hawaiian order the A220 for inter-island flights?
Nicholas Cummins
Nicholas Cummins is a travel writer who flies once a week all over the world. He has been to all seven continents, 64 countries and counting. His favourite airline is Porter Airways in Toronto and always sits window seat.
Definitely! Out with old and in with the new.
Do you have any links to support this statement? The A220's are the most fuel efficient aircraft out there, here is a link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
How a design from the 60's can be more fuel efficient then a modern design is beyond me, but if you can provide a link to support this, I will check it out…
Jeffrey Beaumont says:
Anything but Boeing until they clean up their act!
Richard Kudrna says:
The B717 Is the final refinement of the Douglas DC-9.
In contrast to the 737 it has never suffered a hull loss.
The engines are quite modern "German" Rolls – Royce.
The aircraft is robust and easy to maintain. I think it's fair to say that even 5 years ago this aircraft was marketable.
If in fact the A220 can displace then that is high praise. However, at this time the power plant remains incompletely mature so in my personal opinion it is a bit soon to expect this.
Jack Abbott says:
The Boeing 717 was originally designed by McDonnell-Douglas as the MD-95. It has an extraordinary safety record with no fatalities to date. The CSeries CS100/A220-100 is a more fuel-efficient aircraft of that size and could replace the 717, but the 717 is still a very fuel-efficient plane (BMW/Rolls-Royce turbofans). Both are reliable, extremely durable aircraft, the big difference is that the A220 is a medium-haul aircraft certified to cross the ocean from Hawaii to Los Angeles and serve other thinner routes to west-coast US cities. Hawaiian should refurbish and keep the 717 for inter-island flights and complement it with the A220-100 or A220-300, which can do both inter-island and medium-range flights to mainland USA.
Hunt says:
It's a great idea what you suggest but I think the main issue with refurbishing the 717s is the cycles. Being Island hoppers, they rack up the cycles faster than usual and hence get "old" quickly. As far as I know, cycles can't be refurbished. It's a finite thing on the frame.
Island Miler says:
Aloha! Island Miler here from Jeffsetter. Thanks for the shoutout! While I'd love to see the A220 in service for Hawaiian, it's efficiency isn't as important as people think. Intra-Hawaii flights are so short, cruising fuel efficiency doesn't matter a whole lot. That's not to say the efficiency isn't important, but what is more important is weight. Because Hawaiian's interisland aircraft spend so much of their time doing climb pits, the less the aircraft weigh, the less fuel you burn. And the A220 weighs 4,000lbs more than the E2; 14,000lbs more than the original E195. Plus, the importance of cargo to Hawaiian cannot be understated. It's a HUGE profit maker for the airline. Plus they need to be able to carry plenty of large and odd sized baggage like surfboards and gold clubs. So I still think the E195 in either version is still the best choice.
Size and comfort similarities between the A220-100 and the 717 can be attractive to passengers. Both have 5-across seating, with the A220 offering very wide economy seats (18.6 in). The E195-E2 is narrower and might influence the desirability of the aircraft among passengers. However, the E195-E2 is lighter and shares almost identical engines as the A220 and has certain advantages for maintenance, as it can do more cycles between A-checks and C-checks, while the A220 is likely much more expensive to buy but has an incredible lifespan (tested to a theoretical 180,000 cycles, I do not know the actual certification limit). Would Hawaiian consider a (less comfortable) Q400 or Q400CC (cargo combi) to replace the 717? Otherwise, the E195-E2 is ready to enter the market and needs a serious look.
Having flown an E175 on Eagle, I'd be happy with it on short island hops. Plus the 2+2 seating could be a selling point to passengers too because the lack of a middle seat. As far as the Q400 goes, I don't see that happening. For whatever reason, Hawaii residents tend to reject turboprop aircraft. Hence the failure of Mahalo Air, Island Air (though that one is more complicated), lack of real grow at Mokulele, etc. In fact, Island Air brought in Q400s at one point but returned them because they couldn't fill them. They make a ton of sense for our market, but no one wants to fly them.
I know the B717 well as Qantas flies them to many parts of Australia branded Qantaslink including the Sydney – Hobart service three time a day. Actually I think the origins of the 717 go back to the McDonnell Douglas DC9 in the early seventies.
I have experienced the B717 on the HBA-SYD flight many times a year. They are fast, have a very high AoA, and because of the clean wing configuration they handle very nimbly. There are two 'don't sit here' rules, one is in the last couple of rows where the engines are right beside your ears, and the other is the front few rows where the airflow noise can be deafening.
Mister P says:
I wouldn't think south west will do well inter Island at all and think Hawaiian have this stitched up very well. As said operators come and go and this is their market
Alii says:
You said it perfectly. Hawaiian is a well oiled machine for inter-island service. Other airlines have come, and well, don't exist here anymore. Hawaiian has been operating in the islands for 90 years!! That says a lot!
Pacific Traveller says:
One of the main drivers for Hawaiian will be the engines. How will they hold up on such short flights with very little cool down. The engines powering the 717 are made for such an operating environment where there is very little cruising time. The A220 is gear towards flights with longer stage lengths that allow more time for the engines to cool a bit from take off. Unless Airbus can show Hawaiian that the A220's engines can handle their interisland route system just as well as the 717, without excessive engine maintenance costs, the 717s will not be getting replaced anytime soon. If anything, Hawaiian may end up picking up used frames on the cheap from other airlines such as Delta as they take on A220s and start to shed 717s of their own.
Exactly. But there will come a time when the 717s are no longer viable because of cycles. That time is creeping up quick for some of the oldest frames in the fleet too. So, we'll see what happens. I don't expect Hawaiian to really look into it until after the 787 is integrated into the fleet, though.
stephen voss says:
Delta is not going to be shedding 717's anytime soon. It still trying to phase out the MD-88 and MD-90s.
I would suspect Delta might lease Hawaiians 717's as stop gap to get the the 88's and 90s out of its fleet faster. Of 156 Boeing 717's in service Delta owns 90 of them.
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Mr.Sunil Mehta, Business Head, Director
Mr. Faiz Khan, Promoter & Director
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Kalyar Win Accounting, Auditing and Consultancy Service has established in 2017.
Kalyar Win has experience in accounting, auditing, taxation and finance field for 15 years across all industry sectors.
Daw Kalyar Win was a practicing member of the Myanmar Institute of Certified Accountants (MICPA)
Daw Kalyar Win was hold a degree of-Bachelor of Commerce (B.com)
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
ACCA (Professional Stage) UK
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Formatting account to get proper accounting system
Setting up Computerized Accounting System
Payroll outsourcing services
Business Planning and Budgeting services
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Anupama Basu (Training & Organisational Development Specialist)
Summary of Business Experience and Qualifications:
Anupama Basu is widely experienced training professional with an experience of over 20 years. She has had the privilege to train across various Industries such as IT, Telecom, Banking and Insurance. She started her career in 1991 as an English Trainer and then in 1993 moved to Sales and finally into Training once again in 1997. In these years as a Corporate Trainer she has conducted a variety of business impacting training interventions across various levels.
Her qualifications include BA (Hons.) in English, Certification in the Psychometric Tool DISC, Coaching, SPIN (Sales Training Program), Other Leadership Programs. Organizational Development related Certification in Competency Mapping and Assessment and Development Centres.
Her strong consultative abilities to plan and deliver exceptional people development initiatives have been appreciated in her previous organizations. This comes from the ability to analyse and understand business needs and deliver customized interventions to maximize the impact.
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Her training career started just as She was fresh out of College when she started training Professionals in English Language. During her stint in Sales, she continued to train in personality development. She finally moved fully into training with the Telecom Industry where she was responsible for the Employee Development function. The activities ranged from the Training and Development Needs Analysis, Designing the Training Calendar, Designing and conducting programs in-house as well as outsourcing programs as and when required. In the Financial Services Sector, she initially started by managing the Sales Training Function regionally and then was given charge of managing the HR Employee training function for the organization.
Some areas of Specialization in Training:
Creating and implementing the Organizational Training Strategy based on company goals
Ensuring business impact of training through customized interventions – conducting Training Needs Identification (TNI) and then use a blended delivery approach (both online and classroom delivery) for maximum coverage and impact
Measuring Business Impact of Training – establishing a connect between training and business impact through pre identified measurement criteria
Conducting a variety of Skill/ Behavioral and Leadership Programs. I specialize in conducting Selling and Communication Skills, Train the Trainer, Behavioral, Service Etiquette and Leadership programs.
Other Organisation Development Areas of Expertise:
Conducting Assessment and Development Centres
Designing Reward & Recognition Programs
Her core competence lies in the ability to align the training and development function to business functions and thereby establish its value.
Daw Me Me Soe (Accounting, Auditing, & Consultancy Services)
We do have auditing and non-auditing experience in Trading, Manufacturing, Export & Import business, Construction & Infrastructure, Service Organizations & Non Profit Organizations etc. over 6 years highlighted in Timber trading, Fisheries export, Automobile manufacturing, Machinery Equipment importation, Telecommunication Services and Non-Government Organizations.
Service Background:
Limited Assurance
Cost Structure Analyzing
Budgetary Control & Analysis
Business Plan Proposal
Taxation Guidance
Company Incorporation
Our affiliated CPA firm, we provide auditing services and assurance service for a wide range of industries for small and medium-size enterprise, multinational corporations and subsidiaries of local and overseas listed companies including:
Myanmar statutory audit
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Amitava Ghosh
Amitava Ghosh, an industry veteran in the education and training sectors, is a CEO – Consulting & Training at Eduspark International, which is planning to create a benchmark in training and education industry, globally. Previously he was Director in GEMS Skills (part of GEMS Education, which runs international schools and is the largest K-12 school education chain).
Prior to that, Amitava was with the Reliance Group where he spent over a decade with Reliance HR Services (RHRS) and NIS Sparta Ltd. as Chief Operating Officer. While founding and conceptualizing RHRS, he provided vision and thrust, creating a world-class talent enterprise of immense scale. NIS Sparta, on the other hand is a leader and a pioneer in corporate training & consulting in India and has a list of enviable clients, such as Coke, Pepsi, P&G, HUL, ITC, PWC, Tata Communications, Titan, Maruti, Exide, ICICI, IBM, Xerox and Microsoft on the private sector side and, SBI, Indian Railways, SAIL, ONGC, NTPC, on the government side. In his earlier roles with Reliance Group, he also led the Mumbai power distribution business of Reliance Energy, driving change management with Mckinsey. He was a key member in orchestrating the company's transformation from BSES, the erstwhile avatar to Reliance Energy.
Before his association with the Reliance Group, Amitava was the Managing Director of Aptech Worldwide, in South East Asia, where under his leadership Aptech became an IT partner to various governments and evolved far beyond being a training company.
Amitava is a Bachelor of Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and a postgraduate from IIM Calcutta. He regularly contributes to print and electronic media and is an engaging speaker in various forums. As a connoisseur of culture, he was a correspondent for All India Radio and a trained Rabindrasangeet vocalist. He loves soccer too and supports his wife, who is a professional Odissi dancer in her cultural pursuit.
Passed rank No. 4
Yangon Institute of Economics
Diploma in Accounting
Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Management Accounting, Statistics
From London Chambers of Commerce & Industry (LCCI)
Debtors & Creditors control
Construct Final Accounts (Trial balance, Profit and loss, Balance Sheet)
Monitoring of Budget
Monitor over cash and bank balance in timely
Payment inspection by financial rules
Prepared financial payments
Prepare Financial Statements and Reports
Peachtree software, Kerridge software, Point of sales system.
Motivation to work and Learning Fast
Good at communication and coordination
Proposed position in the team
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Years of professional experience
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text:
Titus Lucretius Carus
LUCRETIUS | Aphra BEHN | Thomas CREECH
Item#: 118834 price:$7,500.00
"A DEFINING TEXT FOR RENAISSANCE HUMANISM, INFLUENCING BOTTICELLI, DA VINCI, GALILEO, MACHIAVELLI, MONTAIGNE AND SHAKESPEARE": VERY RARE 1683 FIRST CORRECTED AND ENLARGED EDITION, ISSUED ONE YEAR AFTER THE VIRTUALLY UNOBTAINABLE FIRST EDITION, OF THOMAS CREECH'S PIONEERING TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH OF LUCRETIUS' ON THE NATURE OF THINGS, THE WORK THAT INSPIRED JEFFERSON TO PROCLAIM, IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AMERICANS' VITAL RIGHT TO "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"
(CREECH, Thomas) LUCRETIUS. Titus Lucretius Carus. The Epicurean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum Done into English VERSE, with NOTES. Oxford: L. Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Anthony Stephens, 1683. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 7-1/4 inches), period-style full brown calf gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label; pp.(44), 223, (1), 59, (1). $7500.
Exceedingly rare second edition in English, first "corrected and enlarged" edition of the previous year's elusive first edition, of Roman poet Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, a seminal work in Western history offering "key principles of a modern understanding of the world," as well as a "crucial guide" to Thomas Jefferson, who proclaimed himself "an Epicurean" like Lucretius, owned an edition of Creech's translation, and gave the Declaration of Independence "a distinctly Lucretian turn" by naming "the pursuit of happiness" to be a pivotal American right, with copper-engraved frontispiece, handsomely bound.
On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura), the only work by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, "is that rarest of accomplishments: a great work of philosophy that is also a great poem… at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world" (Greenblatt, Swerve, 200, 5). Written before the birth of Christ but lost to the world until its discovery nearly five centuries later, it offers an extraordinary "vision of atoms randomly moving in an infinite universe… Divided into six untitled books, the poem yokes together moments of intense lyrical beauty; philosophical meditations on religion, pleasure, and death; and scientific theories of the physical world, the evolution of human societies, the perils and joys of sex, and the nature of disease." Virtually nothing is known of Lucretius. "It is possible, however, to know something about his intellectual biography… Epicurus was Lucretius' philosophical messiah, and his vision may be traced to a single incandescent idea: that everything that has ever existed and everything that will ever exist is put together out of what the Roman poet called 'the seeds of things,' indestructible building blocks, irreducibly small in size, unimaginably vast in number" (Greenblatt in New Yorker).
Noted scholar Stephen Greenblatt "posits Lucretius' On the Nature of Things as a defining text for Renaissance Humanism, influencing Botticelli, da Vinci, Galileo, Machiavelli, Montaigne and Shakespeare" (Owen, Lucretius and the Radical Imagination). At one point in the work's early history, when "the Church was attempting to suppress the text, a young Florentine was copying out for himself the whole of On the Nature of Things… the handwriting was conclusively identified in 1961: the copy was made by Niccolo Machiavelli. Thomas More engaged with Epicureanism more openly in his most famous work, Utopia… [and] Moliere undertook to produce a verse translation of De rerum natura (which does not, unfortunately, survive). In England, the wealthy diarist John Evelyn translated the first book of Lucretius' poem, and Isaac Newton declared himself an atomist" (New Yorker). By the mid-1600s another translation into English by Puritan Lucy Hutchinson was known but it remained unpublished until the 20th century. It was only in 1682 that the first edition in English was published "by the young Oxford-educated scholar Thomas Creech. His Lucretius was greeted as an astonishing achievement" (Swerve, 257).
The work ultimately proved to be of vital importance to Americans when Thomas Jefferson found Lucretius to be "a crucial guide… He owned at least five Latin editions of On the Nature of Things, along with translations of the poem into English, Italian and French. It was one of his favorite books." Jefferson gave the Declaration of Independence "a distinctly Lucretian turn. The turn was toward a government whose end was not only to secure the lives and liberties of its citizens but also to serve 'the pursuit of happiness.'" When a correspondent asked Jefferson his philosophy of life, America's third president and Founding Father simply answered: "I am an Epicurean" (Swerve, 262-63). Included with Jefferson's numerous Latin, Italian and French editions was a 1714 edition of Creech's translation: "entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue" (Sowerby 4460). First "corrected and enlarged" edition, stated "Second Edition": with over 30 pages of supplemental text not present in the 1682 first edition. Including "Life of Lucretius"; separately paginated "Notes." With select poems honoring Creech and his translation by Aphra Behn, Thomas Otway; Nahum Tate, Richard Duke, Edmund Waller, John Evelyn, Joshua Barnes and others. Copper-engraved frontispiece signed in print: "TC.invent. MBurghers delin. et sculp." Dedicatory signed and dated in print: "Feb, 1, 1682, Sir Your most Obliged Humble Servant Tho. Creech." ESTC R23065. Wing L3448. Gordon 331A.
Interior very fresh with minimal edge-toning to scattered leaves, faint toning to spine. An excellent copy.
T. Lucretius Carus
LUCRETIUS >
BEHN, Aphra >
CREECH, Thomas >


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Q: Direct Streaming Method CopyTo does not find the end I am reading a SSE by using this method
    Public Shared Sub ReadStreamForever(ByVal stream As Stream)
    Dim encoder = New UTF8Encoding()
    Dim buffer = New Byte(2047) {}
    Dim counter As Integer = 0
    While True
        If stream.CanRead Then
            Dim len As Integer = stream.Read(buffer, 0, 2048)
            counter = counter + 1
            If len > 0 Then
                Dim text = encoder.GetString(buffer, 0, len)
                SSEApplication.Push(text) 'Here I collect the text slices to a List(of string) object
            Else
                Exit While
            End If
        Else
            Exit While
        End If
    End While
    SSEApplication.writer() 'Here I write the content to a .txt file
End Sub

With my example data it takes about 2 seconds. I would prefer not to read the stream into memory though and tried this method
Public Shared Sub ReadStreamForever1(ByVal stream As Stream)

    Dim output As FileStream = File.OpenWrite("C:\Users\mini_dataset.txt")
    While True
        If stream.CanRead Then
            stream.CopyTo(output)
        Else
            Exit While
        End If
    End While
End Sub

But the process ends up in an endless loop (I guess) at least to me it looks like the end of the stream can not be found. I can break the process after a few seconds and all the data are in the .txt file. Any idea what I can do to get the direct stream to file method working?

A: Stream.CanRead tells you whether a stream supports reading. Since it's apparently readable, While True will go on forever.
Let's verify whether the output Stream.CanWrite instead.
Public Shared Sub ReadStreamForever1(ByVal stream As Stream)
    Using output As FileStream = File.OpenWrite("[Output file path]")
        If output.CanWrite Then
            stream.CopyTo(output)
        End If
    End Using
End Sub

If the process takes some time and you need to report its progress, you could read the stream using a buffer (I didn't add any error checking but of course a try/catch block should be used):
(Here, with 100 parts division commonly used by a ProgressBar)
Public Sub ReadStreamForever1(ByVal stream As Stream)
    Dim BufferLength As Integer = 81920 'As the default stream buffer
    Dim Buffer(BufferLength) As Byte
    Dim BytesRead As Long = 0L

    Using output As FileStream = File.OpenWrite("[Output file path]")
        If output.CanWrite Then
            Dim Part As Long = stream.Length \ 100
            Dim PartCount As Integer = 0
            Dim read As Integer = 0
            Do
                read = stream.Read(Buffer, 0, BufferLength)
                If read = 0 Then Exit Do
                If (BytesRead / Part > PartCount) Then
                    PartCount += 1
                    'ReportWriteProgress(PartCount)
                End If
                output.Write(Buffer, 0, read)
                BytesRead += read
            Loop
        End If
    End Using
End Sub

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