Thanks for that. I wonder if YOW-MCO & TPA will follow or if those will stay mainline?

On a similar note, F8 have made the following changes:
SFB cut to winter seasonal with service resuming 31OCT22
YOW-FLL cut to winter seasonal - last flight 10JUN22, resumes 02NOV22
YOW-YLW cut completely. Last flight 18JUN22 - was Saturday-only service - probably was the problem of not enough frequency. 2x would have seemed more like it.

WS extended its schedule into S23 over the weekend. It's basically a carbon copy of the S22 schedule.

YYC-LHR is currently scheduled from May 2, but I'd imagine will get moved up at least to late March once the winter schedules get updated.

Still no changes to winter other than the removal of YYZ-MIA and YYC-LIH.

The electrification of helicopters is now underway: https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...816384789.html

:previous:

Seems to me the first electric helicopter has been flying on Mars for about a year now. :D

YVR now averaging over 50000 pax per day.

TS announced in their Q2 2022 press release that they are going to start hedging fuel.

https://canadianaviationnews.wordpre...arter-of-2022/

Canadian airport betting big on hydrogen

Edmonton International Airport expects to see hydrogen aircraft by 2025 at the latest
Photo of Alyssa Sporrer Alyssa Sporrer

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ca...ig-on-hydrogen

The first test flight of a human-operated electric helicopter was in 2015, but this is now a modified Robinson that is close to entering production. I think the Mars craft would fall in the UAS category.

Th USA is dropping it requirement for international passengers to be Covid-tested when inbound to the USA. it is high time Canada looked at its Covid policies re: travel.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...ir-travellers/

LOL, guess I was sort of psychic:

Feds expected to announce an end to random arrival testing at Canada's airports
Random arrival testing for fully vaccinated travellers will end soon, source says

John Paul Tasker, Chris Hall · CBC News · Posted: Jun 10, 2022 2:27 PM ET | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

Travellers pass through Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Dec. 3, 2021. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)

The federal government is expected to announce today it will soon end the mandatory randomized arrival testing for incoming travellers at Canada's airports, CBC News has learned.

As a result, starting as soon as Saturday, June 11, only unvaccinated travellers will be required to take a test upon entry into Canada, said a source with knowledge of the policy who was not authorized to speak publicly....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fed...ting-1.6484759

^

Hopefully all remaining restrictions will be lifted for July 1.

AC to become first carrier to fly the A220 on a scheduled service to South America.

https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220610-acnw22ctg

Moved to Rouge.

Every sun route from YQB, YOW and YHZ are now Rouge.

Toronto Downsview Airport (CYZD) hosted a series of interesting departures on Saturday, June 11 as its manufacturing lines are wound down. This is the best list I've been able to compile based on photos posted online:

• DH 82 - CF-CKF - Private
• DHC-1 - C-????
• DHC-2 - C-FPSM - Viking Air
• DHC-2 - C-GDWP - Private
• DHC-2 - C-GODH - Pacific Sky Aviation
• DHC-3 - C-FMAU - Private
• DHC-4 - N302PT - Pen Turbo Aviation
• DHC-6 - C-FMJO - Pacific Sky Aviation
• DHC-7 - C-GCEV - Air Tindi
• Dash 8-400 - C-GGTR - De Havilland Aircraft of Canada

De Havilland's own Dash 8-400s have been ferried to Calgary via Winnipeg.

The new de Havilland takes shape.

I do hope they restart the Q-400 assembly line. However that is still a decision they need to make. As for where, that is obvious, it will be Calgary. Victoria is already constrained both in space at the airport to accommodate the facility as well as space for workers in the area. That only leaves Calgary as an option.

Flair coming to YXU
 

So London is finally going to get Flair Airlines.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/flair-airl...-ont-1.5943695

From what it sounds like, they will start off with a weekly flight to “a sun destination in the southwestern United States”.

I’m going to take a guess that it might be Burbank, CA which Flair flies to from Vancouver.

I think Vegas is more likely.

Burbank doesn’t have customs, and YXU doesn’t have US preclearance. So its not Burbank.

Phoenix-Mesa and Palm Springs are in the same boat as Burbank I think. No customs for commercial flights, only GA.

You sure it's not Tucson, AZ? :D

Flair still have 1x weekly spot on Monday morning to run a run-trip from TUS before returning to YEG by 6pm. So if YXU is going to fill the slot, it would run every Monday starting Dec 5, which fits the timeline in the article. So this is my guess:
TUS-YXU every Monday departing at around 7am
YXU-TUS every Monday departing at around 2pm

Tucson would work as well. They appear to have customs, as Flair has already announced several Canadian cities to Tucson, some of which don’t have preclearance.

I posted my guess on the London forum for Palm Springs or Phoenix area. I didn't investigate customs options though. Vegas would have made sense except for the single flight a week, which no one goes to Vegas for a week. Also I believe the news story said it was to a location not previously served from London, which did have Vegas flights years ago. Seems odd they would set up shop here for one flight a week, so I'd be interested in seeing if they have any other flights being announced for winter start up.