Flying on Air Canada's... Mitsubishi? 

Uhh... Am I the only one noticing this guy at 8:47 ? He sure is working hard xD

8:30 The Casual Air Creebec lol

I was on a CRJ-900 recently from Munich to Wroclaw. I had the emergency exit seat. The leg space was unbelievable! More than on any other plane that I could remember.

The exit rows have no window shade so that they can be looked out and checked for danger ASAP during an evacuation

5:30 lol. I think one of the reasons behind the no window shades is in case of an emergency during the day, the window shades will not slam shut and block the light from coming through. The light coming through can help survivors find the exit row more swiftly

Bombardier sounds so good tho. welp

This plane will always be a Bombardier to me.

“Dragged my head along the ceiling to my exit row seat”

Pretty cool that you flew over the factory that built your plane at 6:48.

During Bombarider's first brush with Bankruptcy after 9-11, it was bailed out by the Beaudoin family (descendants of Armand Bombardier) who bought the recreational prducts division (the original Bombardier) from Bombardier Inc. The family that created the company were not allowed to use the "Bombardier" branding, so what used to be Bombardier is now BRP. When Longview/Viking Air bought (progressively) all the ex deHavilland products from Bombardier, there was no branding problem because Bombardeir had bad reputation of abandonning these products (sucy as Twin Otter which Viking restarted), and the Dash-8 which Bombardier saw no future anymore since it was so focus on C-Series only. The water bombers had remained well known aroudn the wrld as "Canadairs" (like Q-Tips). so when Viking got them, there was no need to use "Bombardier". I have to assume that the name change for the CRJs is also due to legal requirement to stop using the Bombardier brand. Also, MHI wants to establish its name in the industry (which is why it bought the CRJ to get contacts within aviation industry) so would explain push to get airlines to use the Mitsubishi brand for CRJs. Nitpick: MHI did get "sales" but that refers mostly to parts and used/leased aircraft. They did not get anyt production capacity. Prior to transaction closing Bombardier delivered the last new CRJ and closed production line. The hangars at Mirabel were set to be sold to IArbus so it could increase C-Series production. Not sure if this happened. But MHI did not buy any capacity to build new ones. The one remaining question is what happens to the "Bombardier" name when what is left of Bombardier sells its remaining 2 private jets (Challenger and Global 7500) to anothetr company and folds. Will the name go back to the Beaudoin family and they can rename BRP back to Bombardier focused only on recrational products?

Thanks for the video! Great Job! First time flyer here for upcoming trip. Love watching your video to calm my nerves. Will be flying on one of these.

I never get tired of your videos well done well prepared. Keep up the great work.

It is always a treat to watch your videos....thanks!

I was training at Regina during the summer! Cool to see in RU-vid. Also I love those T-tails

Great views ! Thanks

Oh my...I've been on this route (YYC-YQR) many times (in-law's in Yorkton). Gotta appreciate the "bustling" Regina airport. Thanks for sharing. This plane quickly became my favorite. Although I love the Dash-8's, the CRJs are always quiet and comfortable. I'm 6'5" and I've got plenty of legroom in any row. I do find the seat bottoms a bit flat, if not sloped downward which feels like I'm sliding down toward the floor.

Air Canada has probably one of the best CRJ-900 economy cabins out there. Yes the IFE screens are old, but they still function, and the seats are quite comfortable and well padded. I have done the YYC - IAH route on one of these and found them to be nicer than the United 737 aircraft.

i just love my "free drinks available for purchase"

Awesome flight onboard CRJ900 C-FBJZ I do love the CRJ900s

Great review, thank you!

My aunt flew from Toronto to Regina in one of these aircraft on December 17, it was weird, when the aircraft she travelled on was called a Mitsubishi I was like wth 😂

6:00 Row 27 also doesn't have windows. I know this from personal experience on a flight from Winnipeg to Calgary. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day ruined lol.

1:14 I am Canadian and I approve this message

Sorry not sorry! Me like most americans, we always laugh at the way Canadians pronounce Regina. It makes me laugh every time LOL

Talking about old names, I remember flying on those many times when they were Bombardier CRJ-705s

I have enjoyed your videos this year Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and your family 🇳🇿🎄🎁🎄🎁🇳🇿

i've been one these ones a few times. i was going home from KORD to CYVR and crossed the border and was home.

Thanks for this. I will be on one in a few months and although I would have preferred a turboprop for the experience, at least I know what to expect and that I didn't pick the wrong seats.

The newer cabins on these crjs actually make these planes preferable to ac’s a321s

I thought this was a *Canadair* Regional Jet. Does no one remember Canadair??

I laughed so hard at Dave Chappelle's meme. I even read it in his voice!

Another great one! 👍 BTW, I would have added a comment about the name change but you beat me to it 🤣 although I would’ve gone as far as the one you showed! 😇

I will be flying Air Canada's CRJ-200 from IND to YVR in July in the exit row. Rather looking forward to it as I will then be on my way to Manchester, UK.

I fly on this plane 2x a week for work. Pretty decent plane

I was the last person on a flight from LaGuardia to Minneapolis due to a COVID test fiasco back in September. I feel for you Alex.

I like the CRJ 900 between Vancouver and Regina

On till Mitsubishi produces them it will be a Bombardier. Just like the deHavilland Beaver, Viking has had the type certificate for years and it’s still know as the deHavilland Beaver.

Flew the type for 2years and a half for the express carrier. Amazing plane

I like the CR-J’s! Flew them on United regional flights years ago.

I love the CRJ, Whenever I can fly it I choose it, seats feel so much more comfy and spaced out.

Couldn't believe it when I saw that the flight number is actually the same as my home address🤣🤣

For me it's a Mitsubishi. At least until Quebec allows the Energy East pipeline to be built.

I flew an Air Canada CRJ200 between Regina and Vancouver once. While the legroom was fine, I found the abreast room to be extremely tight. (FWIW, not sure why, but I also find Westjet's 737 configuration tightly awkward) Since then I've avoided any itinerary with a CRJ - I'll take a a Dash 8-300 (or guess now Q400) if need to be.

One flew over my area once, and I was like wtf when I saw the name change

Hey Alex! Finally! was waiting to see the 2nd part of ur trip from YYC! great video (as always!!!) and I learnt something new --- i didnt know that Bombardier had sold off the CRJ fleet to Mitsubishi!!! go figure!!! after ur review, ill try to book a trip on one m'self! question for u ---- on approach into YUL, was that Mirabel airport that u flew over ????? and as always, thanks much for another awesome trip review!!! PLEASE keep 'em coming! All the very best to u and yours for 2022! cheers bro,

I vote call it by who made it not by who carries the parts catalog.

Visited Calgary at some point with my family so we guys flew on westjet directly from Toronto to Calgary and it was a 737 max as well. New livery.

My favorite is the A seats in the business class. There is no B seat next to them, so they are like business jet seats.

As an American, I still call it a Bombardier CRJ- they built the aircraft. Now if I come back to Canada sometime soon with a chance to fly on one, I would want to take AC Express with the IFE onboard.

This deal must have been a busy (and lucrative) time for French-Japanese translators!

2:13 that's me fueling that Q-400!

If that wing camera was on the other side you would have seen me haha

My friends Japanese grandpa used to fly Mitsubishis.

I always wondered why you called them Mitsubishi CRJ900's in the spotting videos because I always knew they were from Bombardier, well now I know why, thanks for explaining

I refuses to call it a Mitsubishi... It will always be the CRJ. I do miss the Jazz CRJ9 Flight from Calgary to Houston. I was hoping to get on it. But then COVID happened, now I have to wait. Lol

Great video! I wonder if AC plans to phase out the PTV's on their CRJ's.. Your aircraft was one of the earlier examples Jazz received in the mid-2000's... back then they were known as CRJ-705's and flew fairly long distance flights like KIAH-CYYZ and KORD-CYVR... recently though, all the older models have been re-identified as CRJ-900's. Through Jazz Aviation has since been taking deliveries of new examples of the -900 since about 2016, only a handful of their "NextGen" models have the IFE system... all of the ones delivered in the last couple of years have the same seats and layout, but lack the IFE.. I'm hoping they either install IFE on the newest models they have or try and assign the shorter flights to those jets. for right now it really is inconsistent and it seems like you lucked out my friend! Cheers!

Flew one of these from Calgary to Chicago. Awesome plane. Boooombardier….

At least the safety card remembers it's real name.

Flying J on the Mitsubishi 900LR with AC is actually pretty comfortable!

last time i was the last one on the plane was because westjets porter pushing me in a wheelchair stopped to talk to every westjet employee allong the way. however it kind of worked out as we still had to circle while they plowed the landing runway anyways so being the last flight of the day spend a bit more time on the ground or circle more wither way they would have had to wait

Ah, Regina. The Canadian city that gave its name to a Swedish electric train, despite Regina itself not having electrified rail. Bombardier built six sligthly different variants for Swedish regional transit agencies and trans-regional train partnerships. I think the CRJ was going to be rebranded as SpaceJet, but it didn't quite sell under Mitsubishi ownership, only exasterbated by the pandemic. So MHI quietly discontinued the program during or after the pandemic.

3hrs on a CRJ is np, it does .70 and is above the bumps. better than 1hr in a 1900c

I've flown on this one too

Re-gina like Va-gina? Or is it Re-Jeena? lol I chuckled everytime you said it like Jy-na.

Oh what engines eh, oh wow.

Always enjoy your videos. Miss flying due to Covid. Incidentally, I worked in that AC hangar for a while a number of years ago. I commuted between YYZ and YUL. Good times.

In Germany CRJ's are called "Angströhre", which translates to "Terror Tube" or "Fear Tube" due to their cramped space.

Well done. Any freebies from AC for this video?

Re: last to board: happened to me twice. Once in 1990: person with mega problems at check-in made me very very last minute. I had lots of film so needed manual inspection with each roll of film extracted. Had no time to repack. Was still dressed as cyclist. Plane was on the remote wing at Dorval (still there nut much smaller. Running like mad across tunnel. Get to plane dressed as cyclist, hugffing and puffing, and as I walked the aisles film dropped here and there so had to stop, bend down to pick them up and walk till next films and other stuff dropped :-) This happened to me in 2019 as well, at DCA: Arrived at airport plenty of time, even accompanied boxed bike down to baggage room. BUT, a whole Southwest charger flight arrives in buses, pre-checked, and they all queue at Security at same time, I am behind them. Not only this, but security agent sees my boxes of salt water taffy from the beach that are taped together and insist to pen and check every candy. Air Canada agent (who had checked me in) walks from gate area, sees me being scrutinized by guy, guy sees here and magically all my baggage is fine. Had to pickup everyhing as loose baggage, including cycling shoes and run to plane wearing socks and cycling closes (no time to change), so same rigamorole of being last on board with loose luggage falling down and I was at last row of the CRJ700 so EVERYONE got to see me do this :-(. I just dumped all the loose stuff in overhead and repackagaged stuff once we landed.

You know the view at YQR never changes when the 1st 3mins of this video looks like 1/2 the videos on my channel over the course of 9 years 😂

The walk of shame lol

5:47 You can just bring your kids for the tight lavatory in the CRJ's

I be flying on crj 900 to Toronto next month july 10

I love these RJs -- quick boarding/unboarding, comfy and whether it's a CRJ or MRJ or whatever it's going to be called, it's a peach!

Sorry I still stand by that it should still be referred to as a Bombardier CRJ since it was built under Bombardier and not Mitsubishi the same way you would not call a DC-10, MD-11, MD-88 (ok all mostly retired but you can get the point) a Boeing ____ . Last Christmas we ended up flying 4 hours on a American Airlines CRJ700 operated by Skywest which was originally supposed to be a A319. Even in first class 4 hours is too long in a CRJ especially with not IFE and no working wi-fi.

Whatever they were built as....Bombardier.

I’m used to calling the CRJ the Bombardier CRJ

Flew on a westjet encore dash 8400 bombardier one day from Calgary to Edmonton the flight was. It was westjet ws 3143 flight #. The aircraft is good. Service is good. As well a 1 hour flight so they never serve anything except water so that's how.

Awesome report on the CRJ, bro. One of my favorite aircraft to fly on

I had no idea the CRJs had IFEs lol

I wonder if my type rating still works with the new name 😁

Mitsubishi jumped on this due to the MRJ Mitsubishi Regional Jet never really got a publicity it needed

"...So despite it being 3 hours on the CRJ..." It seems to me that 3 hours from Regina to Montreal is the going rate for any commercial Airliner

To me this beautiful aircraft will always remain a Bombardier. Not a damn car name.

Avro Arrow-gone. C Series is now a Airbus 220. CRJ now a Mitsubishi. Not a very good track record for our Canadian aviation industry.

I just booked 19 A&B. Based on ur review. Seat guru is not that great on this aircraft. It shows the seat behind as a better option. They look the same ?

So what’s left of Bombarder? Trains are sold to Alstom, commercial planes went to Airbus, De Havilland and Mitsubishi. All that’s left is a few private jets. Are they restructuring debt so they can bounce back or are the executives liquidating everything and running away?

Dude. These are 90 seat airplanes that have been configured to carry 76. They have more legroom than any other Air Canada plane. You could have been seated in any row. Also, compared to the smaller 50 seat CRJ, the 900 has a lower floor which gives more headroom (and better views out the windows). This is also a very fast regional jet, 3 hours for that trip is pretty respectable.

I have flown the AC CRJ 900 6 times in the last 40 days and again next month. It’s fascinating that the newer ones have no IFE but have slightly better overhead storage. I would prefer if they installed a tablet holder instead of IFE. 3 hours on a CRJ is a long flight. Good call on the exit row. Thanks for putting together this trip report. Great quality work as always.

I think some people call it crj cuz it sounds good

6:47 Mirabel - YMX

Wait, what? DE Haviland is back?

at 7:22 you can see a thomas cook 757 i thought they ceased operations no?

I'll have to try the exit row sometime! Being about as tall as you - after 3 hours in a CRJ, I feel very Mitsubishi'd out...

How do you get informed as to what runway you are landing on?

Was that a belstaff bag under the seat in front of you?

Another great video! From one RU-vidr to another well done! Cheers

The only "900" suitable for long distance travel... 😅

Also flew on air canada. The aircraft was different flew on a embraer 175. The flight was from New York JFK to Toronto YYZ. Air Canada AC 8555. Flight #.

Looks like a replacement for the DC-9.