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Looks like YQL and YXH are going to be losing air service on 24JUN26: https://medicinehatnews.com/advert/public-notice/
Those cities begged for WS service, which triggered AC's departure and now... I wonder if a tier III carrier like CMA will step in? CMA do have interline agreements with both AC and WS and have better suited aircraft sizes to allow for 2-3x daily service. |
YLW's January pax stats:
Month / 2025 / 2026 / % Change vs Prior Year Jan. 197,630 / 212,604 / +7.6% |
YXE's January pax stats:
Month / 2025 / 2026 / % Change Jan. / 124,350 / 117,956 / -5.1% |
it's not often I'd credit Trump with any sensible action but in this case approval was long overdue. I wonder who was behind playing silly-buggers with the whole process?
Transport Canada approves remaining Gulfstream models at centre of Trump’s threats Nicolas Van Praet Published 4 hours ago Updated 8 minutes ago For Subscribers Transport Canada has certified the two remaining Gulfstream jet models at the heart of recent threats by U.S. President Donald Trump against Canada’s aerospace industry. The federal department awarded “type certification” to Gulfstream’s G700 and G800 planes on Monday, according to a document from Transport Canada’s National Aeronautical Product Approval database. Two other Gulfstream models, the G500 and G600, were approved earlier this month. Federal officials had been working behind the scenes to assuage U.S. anger over jet safety approvals after Mr. Trump blasted Canada in a social media post in late January for having “wrongfully, illegally and steadfastly refused” to certify the four Gulfstream jet models... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...lfstream-jets/ |
Is Boeing going to get Trump to go after FAA to get B777X’s & B737MAX-7 & 10 approved early too. Seems like the same situations. Except Trump may not have been paid off by Boeing yet
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There’s still Ebus bus service that connects Calgary YYC - Lethbridge YQL - YYC daily 7 days a week both directions ✅. Also Flixbus bus service connects YYC -Medicine Hat YXH - YYC up to 4x weekly both directions✅. Bus service is a better fit between Calgary -Lethbridge -Medicine Hat, as it seats up to 40 - 50+ passengers depending on the type of bus they use for it! The Ebus/ Flixbus trips start up at Edmonton YEG area 1st - Red Deer - Calgary & then to either Lethbridge or Medicine Hat as final stops. |
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Bus Service is not better for people who need the airport. The flight did not exist to connect Lethbridge/Medicine Hat to Calgary. It exists to connect Lethbridge/Medicine Hat to rest of Canada and other markets. Smaller urban centers are losing flights or losing frequencies post covid. This is a national trend that is getting worse. Smaller cities are less connected now than 2020. That is a problem. It is a problem that is getting worse, nationally. Sarnia, North Bay and Kingston all lost service on Air Canada to Toronto. Lloydminster, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge all lost or losing service. Red Deer used to have a flight to Calgary on Air Canada. Kenora had flights to Winnipeg. Other cities have massive cuts to frequencies (Fort Mac, Sault Saint Marie, Regina, Thunder Bay, Rouyn, Gander etc) which has led to flying going up dramatically price wise in those regions. This is a tale of 2 Canada's big cities are doing fine flight wise, and prices are coming down. If you are in a city of under 200,000 its the opposite - and all signs are it will get worse. |
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This summer AC for the Ontario feeder routes are starting to rebuild frequencies to YQG, YXU, YSB, YAM & YTS. YYB lost out because unlike YTS, it's an easy drive to Toronto, which kept O&D low and it was a traditional DH1 market. It's the first sign of a rebound for those markets, along with WS coming back to YAM and into YYB for the first time. Seeing AC restore YXU-YOW (can't understand why PD hasn't jumped on this one, especially as they move YQG over to YOW) would be a further sign. YXU's still a long ways off their peak pax counts even with the YYZ frequency additions. |
I really hate to see it. Lethbridge, Red Deer, & Medecine Hat have all struggled to maintain air service. I think people just prefer to drive and save the flight connection, heck there are a ton of people from Edmonton even that drive down to Calgary to avoid a connection but in smaller communities you need everyone taking the flight from your airport to sustain.
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YQF (Red Deer) was an experiment for a short while for AC. It didn’t have any longstanding service. And with YYC being on the north side of Calgary and YEG on the south side of Edmonton it isn’t surprising YQF regional service basically disappeared decades ago. Not to say a YVR nonstop couldn’t carve out a niche, but a feeder to YYC is tougher.
YQL isn’t too far from YYC, but on the other end of the city, and did have longstanding service and a much higher level of service always. Far more potential in resumption or in another route there. |
For those that use AF/KL and collect Flying Blue points a hugely positive change is coming in May as both flying and non-flying points earned will be treated equally with the same two year reset period. This will finally bring AF/KL into alignment with other FF programs.
https://onemileatatime.com/news/air-...ration-policy/ |
AC has further cancelled Cuba until November 1.
I suspect WS may also follow suit and suspend Cuba until next winter too. |
Cuba is going to be like Tel Aviv these last couple of years. They’re gonna keep kicking the - relaunch - ball down the road as long as conditions don’t improve.
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Didn’t Air Canada purchase or will purchase those Heart ES30 battery planes…
I always imagined they would return to the small cities into ON, QC, AB and BC with them since the Qs are just too big for the routes like Medicine Hat to Calgary |
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https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...0Aerospace.%22 |
Well first Cuba now DXB/AUH/DOH won't be resuming anytime soon I think? Several injured at DXB, one dead at AUH in the attacks.
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Iran can only launch so many missiles. It won’t last long. EK, QR and EY will be flying soon enough.
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On a separate note, yesterday and on Sunday interestingly AC are using a 788 on one of the YOW-YUL rotations. Last time that happened was probably 2002 when post-9/11 AC temporarily combined the YOW & YUL to LHR flights for a few months. Maybe there’s been the odd other one-offs since line these two roundtrips. |
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Look forward to Vancouver-Tehran direct flights when this is all over… |
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And this is assuming regime change happens. I’m of the opinion it won’t, and I’m not the only one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/khamen...iran-9.7110285 |
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Who knows how long airports in the Middle East will be closed. |
I think we often forget that Iran has almost 100 000 000 population. So maybe 20M are super angry and ready for regime change but there is a core of middle age and older folks who do not want to see this happen. They supported the revolution in the 70s and prefer modern (I use that term loosely) Iran to the alternatives. Either way, I won't hold my breath with regards to middle east flights and tourism anytime in the next 5-10 years. This is way too chaotic.
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PD and AA have further expanded their codeshare relationship to now include 14 US domestic routes out of LAX: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/260302-pdaacodeshare
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So Air Canada is tossing in the towel until March 23nd on Israel and Dubai operations.
https://x.com/AirCanada/status/2028530798480003249 |
The first of Air Canada's refitted to Rouge 7M8s enters service today: https://www.aircanada.com/media/air-...rouge-service/
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On a more serious note, happy to see it new aircraft replacing the old. Sounds tight but not as tight as the failed experience WestJet wanted for us. Was on one of the CRJ-900 for the first time in a long time. Noticed the displays are gone and have a filer panel in their place. |
Hello guys, in the coming years, I would like to visit Victoria. I’ll probably take a flight to get there. Is it possible to find direct flights to Victoria, from eastern Canada WITHOUT stopping in Vancouver? Thanks in advance.
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Porter has non-stop from Ottawa and Toronto. WestJet has non-stop from Calgary and Edmonton. (Depending on time of year they also have a Toronto and Winnipeg flight). |
I use Wikipedia and look at the airports to see what airlines are flying to what cities. It doesn’t show how many flights or what times but it gives an idea of what airlines fly to what cities. pretty accurate but sometimes saves the big big search.
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https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/260305-acmar26del Guess the waiting list is long enough that opening a new flight with just 2 days notice is better than leaving the plane on the ground? |
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route from Calgary YYC & Edmonton YEG too. Or you can also fly nonstop to Vancouver YVR & then take BC Ferries trip over to Victoria as well. |
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Keeping it to aviation, oil is up 25% this week. Flying is about to get much more expensive and whenever oil spokes airlines get more conservatives with routes and what they are willing to try. |
GTAA have announced YYZ's full-year 2025 results (in their typical lousy format): https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...818250810.html
Twelve months ended December 31 (in millions) Sector / 2025 / 2024 / Chg: # pax / % Chg / vs 2023 DOM: / 17.2 / 16.4 / 0.8 / +4.6% / 16.5 INT'L: / 30.1 / 30.4 / -0.3 / -0.8% / 28.3 Total: / 47.3 / 46.8 / +0.5 / +1.1% / 44.8 Since they annoyingly don't publish transborder numbers, it's safe to assume the -0.8% for international represents a substantial transborder decline and solid international growth. |
Nice photos, sucks about the backtracking. Holy lol.
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The American airlines are crappy at it. They usually don't even have a recorded French message for flights to Canada. Air Canada serves Portugal and Brazil. So they would try to staff those flights with at least one person who speaks Portuguese. |
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