I happened across ASH1100 and ASH110. ASH1100 appears to have gone halfway to Honolulu and then turned around and headed back (shows that way on the “all flights” SFO-HON map, also). How long has Air Shuttle operated SFO-HON with the CJ2? I can barely stand an hour in the things (it’s my fault for constantly trying to look out the too-low window). -Jan nr CID
Could someone fix that title? Sorry about that.
It’s probably a ferry flight for their Hawaii service. Could be moving an airplane from the mainland to the islands for the winter, or something like that. I can’t imagine it has the range without some extra tanks installed.
It is 2,000 NM to Hawaii. The CJ2 has a range of 1,300 NM’s…
It’s reasonable that empty and flying at the most efficient speed possible and with favorable winds that a CRJ-200 could do California-Hawaii without any special retrofitting for extra fuel.
Has anyone done it on flight simulator? What do you think dadalope?
No, but I have done ANC-LAX in B738 and SYD-JFK in B744, oh and I did stay at a holiday inn express last night also. What do you think wazzu?
I’d agree with this being a ferry flight. Keep in mind that ASH owns Go!, and their fleet is currently all CRJ2s. They easily could be shifting this CRJ from the ASH fleet to the Go! fleet.
As for the flight, the CRJ2 could make it. The CRJ200-LR has a range of 2004nm, but would probably be completely empty. More than likely, an extra tank was added to increase the range; since weather would flow west to east, they would have caught some headwinds.
BL.
No, but a friend of mine…
Ballast tanks in the cabin…Republic Airlines moved their E-170s to HNL via Adak and Midway Island last year…Kinda of the back way in.
Not a CRJ-200, a CJ2… It is a Cessna…
No. I was just as confused, but its Mesa Airlines shuttle CRJ-2, just look up the flight #
Five hours on an RJ, can you say Iron ass?
IAH-BFL was bad enough…4 hours.
Im a wimp, i dont even like doing three hours in the citation. I prefer the shorter up and down legs.
Well the heading thing said a CJ2.
True, and there is the disconnect. For the aircraft type, the CRJ-200 would show up as a CRJ2. The CJ2 (Cessna Citation II) would show up as a C25A.
BL.
Yea, but we were not calling it what FA calls it. We were calling it a CJ2 which that is what it is called. But anyhoo, lets not go on any more, we know what it is called. 
I screwed up the airport designator AND the aircraft type (and I know better, too). Along the same lines, though, just now I heard KLM663 going overhead (on my scanner) so I looked it up and discovered that it was a flight from Amsterdam to Houston. This is not unusual. Usually they are 747-400’s. This one says that it is a 737-700! 11 hour flight. How much of a load could IT have? -Jan nr CID (eastern Iowa)
About 44 business seats IIRC.