New Airline

[Disco Stu]

Service between Lethbridge and Red Deer to Kelowna, Vancouver, using 3 Dash 8s.

Regional 1

The Board of Directors and Senior Management

Mr. John Binder is the Chairman of the Board and one of Regional 1's founders. Currently John is the President and CEO of Avmax Group Inc., a Calgary based heavy aircraft maintenance and servicing facility. Prior to founding Avmax John was President and owner of Western Avionics of Calgary, Canada's largest aircraft avionics company, now a division of the Avmax Group. John is a licenced aircraft engineer and has an extensive aviation management background.

Mr. Don Parkin is a member of Regional 1's Board of Directors. Don is also a Vice President with the Avmax Group and has an extensive background in aviation and avionics management.

Mr. Peter Scheiwiller is also a Director of Regional 1. Peter is co-founder of North Cariboo Air, a successful charter carrier headquarterd in Fort St. John, B.C. Peter is a commercial pilot and currently holds the position of Vice President, Operations, for Canadian North.

Ms. Tracy Medve is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Regional 1. She comes to the airline with an aviation career which started in 1985. She graduated with a degree in law from the University of Saskatchewan in 1981 and was in-house counsel for Norcanair, a regional air carrier based in Saskatchewan. Tracy also held various management positions at Time Air, Canadian Partner and Canadian Regional Airlines, prior to co-founding C.T. AeroProjects Inc. in 1982. C.T. is an air transport resource management and consulting company located in Calgary which has provided services to a variety of air carriers and other with aviation investments and interest, both in Canada and abroad. Tracy is also currently a member of the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada.

Mr. Bhaskar Dave is Regional 1's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dave is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an MBA from Cranfield University in the UK. Prior to joining Regional 1 Mr. Dave was a Management Consultant and prior to that Chief Financial Officer of Alberta Aerospace Corp, an aircraft development company.

Captain Tom Matiushyk is the Operations Manager and brings to Regional 1 over 10,000 hours flying experience with more than 2,500 hours on the Dash 8. Tom's experience includes more than 7 years with Canadian Regional Airlines and Air Canada Jazz where he piloted both the Dash 8 and the Fokker F-28 aircraft. Prior to his career with Canadian Regional Tom spent 9 years in the commercial aircraft charter industry.

Captain Dan Holm is the company's Chief Pilot. Formerly with Air Canada Jazz he came to Regional 1 in January 2003. He has more than 11,000 flying hours, including over 4,000 hours on the Dash 8.

Ms. Rebecca Gutsell is the Flight Attendant Manager and has 18 years experience in the airline industry. She started her career at Time Air as a flight attendant and has since worked for other commercial carriers, including Westjet, Zip and Corporate Express. Her experience includes cabin safety, occupational health and safety, training and development, recruitment and human resources.

Mr. Ed Jackson is the Director of Maintenance. For the seven year period prior to coming to Regional 1, Ed held the position of Program Manager at Avmax Group Inc. Mr. Jackson has been in the aviation industry for the past 19 years in heavy overhaul and also as base engineer for flight operations. During these years he obtained several licences, including M1/M2, CL65, DA21, BA146 and Dash 8. His aircraft experience includes the ATR-42, BA146, CRJ, DHC-5, DHC-6, DHC-7 and DHC-8.

Regional 1 is staffed by a dedicated team of professionals

[flyboeing]

Any word on them adding any other destinations and perhaps giving Central Mountain Air, Peace Air. etc so more competition?

[Kosiw]

I really wonder if there are enough bums to fill a 37 seat aircraft from cities with 50-60k population? And why those citiy pairs? Are these guys operating as an LCC?

[TenForTwelve]

I haven't lived in Alberta for a while, but as a comparison, Hawkair in BC has four DHC-8 100s now, and they do well out of place like Prince Rupert and Terrace. Maybe this new one will have the same success.

[oldtimer]

I used to live in Lethbridge and have friends and relatives living in the Red Deer area. Stubb Ross (founder of Time Air,which became the backbone of Canadian Regional before Jazz) made a go of it out of Lethbridge but could not do anything out of Red Deer. The reason Hawkair does so well in their small cities is because alternate forms of transportation (the private automobile) is relatively slow. Prince Rupert and Terrace is an all day drive to anywhere. Lethbridge to anywhere important is a pleasent 1.5 to 2 hours over excellent highways. Red Deer is just closer. 1 hour to 1.5 hrs to Calgary or Edmonton. You can get into a car and beat airline time to the city any day of the week. I is strange that they would start out of there except the city councellors are probally supportive and they must have a game plan. Lethbridge used to be retirement city. Everybody stayed home for the holidays. Maybe something big is happening. Quality of life is really big in both Lethbridge and Red Deer. Not too many people leave there.

[bb lint]

Perhaps they are going for the points beyond traveller. Those who live in Red Deer or Lethbridge who's final destination isn't Calgary or Edm but perhaps catching a connecting flight from the major centres to
points beyond eg: Calgary to Toronto, LA, Honolulu etc. That is smarter. By the time one drives from Red Deer to Calgary parks the car at Park N Jet, shuttles to/from terminal gets back to car, ( IF it starts in mid-January) drives back to Red Deer with blizzard /icy roads/crabby wife and kids, it makes better sense to fly all the way through. In this respect it just very well may be good business. But I agree with Oldtimer that the commuter going to a meeting downtown Cal./Edm from Leth/Red Deer... driving is faster, less hassle and likely cheaper.

[Juggs]

Well all things considered, I'm not sure how profitable a run that Regional One can make of things. I would like to see the airline succeed, however, there seem to be some problems with their initial route structure.

The city pairings seemed almost idealistic and the cities somewhat small for the type of aircraft. However, with the distances in the pairings something bigger than a PA31 would in all likelyhood be needed. I have worked with quite a few of the individuals at Regional One, and all seem like a pretty good bunch of characters.

While the markets that they have chosen as spokes in their system are rather curious, namely Red Deer. The lack of a success scheduled airservice into Red Deer in the last 25 or so years may hint at something, although Red Deer has seen growth in population, and also quite likely a demand for a scheduled airservice.

Initially there will be problems with the ground handling and other start up hassles of any new airline/routes in a 705 level or any other level for that matter. They did have a number of problems with ground handling out of Nassau and Haiti, although one does expect delays of the sort when dealing with countries in the Caribbean.

Depending on their crewing infastructure and schedule, duty time could also start to become an issue, although it seems as though duty time is always an issue in any type of flying.

I wish them the best of luck and the best of times to both the crews and the airline as a whole.

--Juggs

[dxpr]

Service between Lethbridge and Red Deer to Kelowna, Vancouver, using 3 Dash 8s.

Regional 1

The Board of Directors and Senior Management

Mr. Peter Scheiwiller is also a Director of Regional 1. Peter is co-founder of North Cariboo Air, a successful charter carrier headquarterd in Fort St. John, B.C. Peter is a commercial pilot and currently holds the position of Vice President, Operations, for Canadian North.

I've never met the man, but I know him by reputation....... If nothing else he is a shrewd businessman, who will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

I think every conversation I've ever heard about him has had the words "a$$ hole" involved.

Regardless, the more planes in the air, the fewer pilots on the gound!

It is nice to see some Canadian Regional people back at it again! Go blue team!

[avro_girl]

I am glad to see Regional 1 come alive and i wish them success! I just wonder if they have done there research before diving into the deep end.

As far as i know there is only 3,700 people that fly out of the red deer airprot yearly, im not sure??? but that works out to be about 10 people daily!

I heard from a little birdy that the advertising department for Regional 1 is an ex westjet managment

Good luck boys and girls!

[bb lint]

I just wonder if they have done there research before diving into the deep end.

Avro,
Okay you invest millions of dollars in a business and you don't do research. Do yourself a favor, stick to airplanes and stay out of the business world. People like you said the same thing about Max Ward and Stubb Ross. Not to mention the likes of Jim Pattison and Ron Southern. Sure there are bound to be business failures even in the best industries. Not a lot af us really know what is going on in the boardrooms behind the scenes, but to suggest they haven't done there (sic) research is totally naiive. What entrepreneurs need in this country is support not a condecending atitude...they are hardly "boys and girls" as you so nicely put it.

[avro_girl]

bb lint

awww muffin did i hit a sore spot

I am not a pilot

I guess you just missed the whole point!

Didn't mean to offend you, by calling you boys and girls....try not to read into it so much!

Cheers

[The Dude]

Okay you invest millions of dollars in a business and you don't do research. Do yourself a favor, stick to airplanes and stay out of the business world.

Yeah no one has ever done that before, specially in the airline business.
bb lint this is a public forum and I think avro_girl made a good point. If you don't agree with her why don't you give us some counter points to what she said?

[bb lint]

Come to think of it,you're right. This is a public forum.

Whateverrr (snaps my gum)

[bacata]

Yahh!
At last some bigger metal back in Lethbridge. Hope it works, I believe Integra Air did some bean counting for the run to YVR anyway (probably the other destinations also). Not sure if they are involved but if they are should help them with thier City Centre dilema (wont have all thier eggs in one basket). Either way, lets hope they can make a go of it and prosper. Since these things help benefit everyone, do they not? Has there bee a start up date yet, and if so where is the maintenance going to be performed, YYC?

[avro_girl]

bacata

****air has been approached to help out with the start up of Regional 1 but has not made any final decsions yet.

The start date for Regional i believe is Oct 6/04

[Beacon Final]

Iraqi Air is starting up this month too. No bull. Its has one bird a 737-200 with 158 seats. Normally a 200 seriers has max 125 seats. Figure that out!! Not only that but I think its armed with caff and flares.......

BF

[slowstream]

Good luck Regional 1 I wish you success.

[chief]

Hmmm let's see:
John Binder........CEO of Avmax and previous owner of canada's largest avionic's company.
Don Parkin..........vice president of Avmax
Peter Scheiwiller.........vice president of operatons for Canadian North and co-founder of North Cariboo
Tracy Medve and Bhaskar Dave each with extensive experience in the aviation field.

What makes you think they researched? YA THINK!

[F/L 250]

I've never met the man, but I know him by reputation....... If nothing else he is a shrewd businessman, who will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

I think every conversation I've ever heard about him has had the words "a$$ hole" involved.

Well if that isn't close to slandering someone. That's like me saying "I've never met you but I hear that you are a lousy pilot and shouldn't be in aviation." And then posting it for all to see. If you have never met the person (not just Peter) then these types of statements should not be in these types of forums.

[dxpr]

Well if that isn't close to slandering someone. That's like me saying "I've never met you but I hear that you are a lousy pilot and shouldn't be in aviation." And then posting it for all to see. If you have never met the person (not just Peter) then these types of statements should not be in these types of forums.

True enough it is pretty close to slander. If it was something I heard once, I would discount it. It was something I heard ALOT. If you were sending resume there, wouldn't you like to know a little something about the principals?

I did see Peter once, about 8 years ago. Way back in the my days of working the ramp. He was doing rides one day, and had to connect to a different flight. We were delaying a flight so he could hop on. Now, as we all know, on time performance is very important to a customer service oriented airline. Peter gets off F28 #1 and casually walks across the ramp to F28 #2. If he looked like he was in a hurry I wouldn't mention it, but his walk was so deliberately slow, it was painful. We had to justify every minute of a delay, while he had the audacity to stroll across the ramp while a plane full of people was waiting.

Not very cool if you ask me.

I can't comment on the rest of them, so I didn't.

"I've never met you but I hear that you are a lousy pilot and shouldn't be in aviation."

Bullshit, you can be mine!

[Guilden]

Hey peeps, anyone out there heard anything more about that Quest Airlines, or also possibly QuestJet? Do not think WestJet is gonna like that one if truth maybe....

[KKboy]

I understand the 37 pax aircraft Regional 1 use cost less than a twin otter so they have some overhead advantages against perhaps Air Canada who are going to compete with 25 million dollar 50 pax aircraft.

Watch for more scheduled charter wof going north from Regional 1.

[Beach 200]

Blast from the Past. But I just realized most of the people who originally headed up Regional One are all at Canadian North!

[FL020]

ill put an end to this......the original post is over 6 years old (The article) NONE of those top managers are even there anymore. That sched was cancelled YEARS ago!!!

OBVIOUSLY no one on this forum is from AB, other wise they would of posted this long ago......

[Beach 200]

It was posted over 6 years ago. Hence "Blast from the Past"..... Read the first post!