The Galileo Airline Reservation System (competitor of Sabre) that travel agents use. This system is not available to the public. I have connection where I can access it. This is a part of the system called Galileo Vacations. You put in the city that you wish to depart from and then where and the date and it will tell you everything that is available, packages and charter flights. You can then access the tour operator you choose directly from the system to do the booking. They include 16 of Canada’s largest tour operators.
· AIR CANADA VACATIONS (VAC)
· ALBATOURS (ALB)
· CONQUEST VACATIONS (CON)
· FUN SUN VACATIONS (FUN)
· NOLITOURS (NOL)
· RED SEAL / SUNWING (SWG)
· SIGNATURE / ROYAL (SGN)
· SIGNATURE / SUNFLIGHT (SGN)
· SUNQUEST VACATIONS (SQV)
· SUNQUEST WEST (SQV)
· THE HOLIDAY NETWORK (THN)
· TOURS MONT ROYAL (TMR)
· TRANSAT HOLIDAYS (VAT)
· VACANCES SUNQUEST (TMA)
· VACANCES TRANSAT (VAT)
· VARAPLAYA (VAR)

Globespan is having some issues--some are apparently related to Customs clearance at some of the small facilities they use in the U.K. and others are related to them being stretched fairly thin on the aircraft side of the operation. Some of this may be the result of the fact that Globespan is basically a low-fare/low-cost operator in Continental Europe--and they have aircraft utilization that is fairly high as a result--trying to utilize aircraft long haul, with tight turns can be tricky, as has been seen with them since they started. I check IFIDS daily, they had a few disastrous days, but also some days where they are at least in the ballpark in terms of OTP...today for instance looks fairly good--off by 20 minutes on a trans-Atlantic flight isnt all that bad...hopefully they keep improving.

Beleive it or not The Globespan Flight from Manchester is actually early today. They have been improving greatly the past week or so with OTP. This is great news.

Looks like flyglobespan is staying the winter in Hamilton. They now have in their system and I have received an email notice for weekly service to Hamilton to Manchester on Mondays / Manchester to Hamilton on Sundays and to Hamilton to Hamilton to Glasgow on Mondays / Glasgow to Hamilton on Sundays. I am sure there will be more destinations to come.

And their on time performance has been doing better. They have some fights early in the last week and the late flights have been less than an hour late. Air Canada Jazz from Montreal and Ottawa is later than that on some days.
:D

Hey likehamilton are you RickYHM on airliners.net?

Anyway good news on the GSM flights for the winter.

Found the Duty Free logo

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Plane makes emergency landing at Hamilton airport

The afflicted jet sits safely on the ground this morning at Hamilton's airport.

Passengers reported seeing flames shooting out the engine of their plane moments before it made an emergency landing at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.

A flyglobespan plane from Britain declared an emergency shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday just after taking off from the airport with more than 170 passengers aboard bound.

Staff Sergeant Bernie Mueller said the crew reported the Boeing 757 had mechanical problems and ``they had some concerns about how safe it was going to be to land.''

Hamilton police and firefighters sprang into action. Police officers set up perimeters at the intersections around the airport in the event the plane crashed and firefighters stood by. Fortunately, the plane landed at about five minutes after 11 p.m. and it did not have any problems. ``We're clearing off and it's all over,'' said Mueller.

He said the crew was talking about dumping the plane's fuel, but he said the emergency only lasted 10 minutes and that did not appear to give the crew enough time. flyglobespan, an Edinburgh-based carrier, began flying between the British Isles and Hamilton May 4.

Anyone else think the GTAA is trying to sabotage HI!? Or is it just riddled with the worst luck in the history of the word "luck"???

and here's a shocker, the news was all over CH -- the emergency landing couldn't have come at a worst time for the struggling airline which celebrates it's 1 month anniversery in Hamilton...

Do not worry. Flyglobespan is announcing more winter destinations for Hamilton and will be announcing flights and putting on sale next summer from Hamilton soon.
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Is Globespan now running at full summer schedule? During May Globespan had 2 arrivals and 2 departures now it looks like 4 out and 4 in, doubled.

I don't think its going to increase until July 1st and only to 3 . It may have been showing 4 because of the incident last week with the Engine problem caused a back log.

FlyGlobespan Status (Item 4.2)

Richard Koroscil reported that FlyGlobespan started operating out of the Airport on May 1, and has been operating at 90%+ load factors. The operations is at a point where Globespan has indicated that it will run year round, with a reduced schedule during the off season, and building back up in the marketplace next summer. Mr. Koroscil acknowledged that there have been some operational issues in terms of on-time performance, and they are working through those issues.

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Minutes from what meeting?

Airport Implementation Task Force Report 07-003

Thanks!

I saw nothing in that article to indicate that Pickering is a for sure thing other than the headlines. The quote was "'Make the appropriate decision when the time comes." Pickering Airport might be built but at least for the first stages (I believe 2020 or so is when they start) it will be general aviation in order that Toronto Island, Buttonville, Markham (located on part of the airport grounds) and Oshawa Airports, which are overcrowded, can be closed. Maybe 10 15 year s after that there Might be cargo and in another 10 15 years passengers. By then Hamilton will be a much bigger hub, Pearson overfull and Pickering will be welcome relief.


This all of course relies that the cost of flying won't skyrocket.

Hey Globespan is doing great out of YHM. and things are possibly going to get better I saw on anothere web fourm that they are going to have Zoom Airlines doing some flights from YHM starting wednesday.

There was some rumour of Zoom taking over some of the overses flights that flyglobespan operates, but those have turned out to be incorrect. Zoom will not be operating out of YHM and flyglobespan continues as per its operating schedule.

Winter charter destinations to the south out of Hamilton in the reservations system now stands at 5.
They are:

Cancun
Mayan Riviera
Jamaica (new for 2007/08)
Punta Cana
St Martin (new for 2007/08)

Hotelier sets sights on Iranian tourists
By Eric McGuinness

Hotelier Oscar Kichi is hiring a full-time staffer to bring Iranian tourists to southern Ontario through John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.

Kichi says there are an estimated 200,000 Iranian emigrès in Toronto and a growing number in Hamilton, but no direct flights from Iran to Canada. Visitors have to make connections in European airports to reach Toronto.

While a few companies offer package tours to Toronto, the Hamilton businessman sees a “huge, huge market” that is underserved and says, “We’re hoping to capture some of that market.”

Kichi said Iranian demand is so high that “you can’t get a flight out of Tehran (to Canada) until September or so.”

His company, Sahar’s Hospitality, operates the downtown Plaza Hotel and developed the Marriott Courtyard on the Mountain.

Kichi envisions biweekly direct flights with Hamilton-based tours to Toronto, Niagara Falls and other attractions.

“We’ve tested the market already. We ran an ad on an Iranian satellite TV broadcast out of Los Angeles and “we were just bombarded with telephone calls (from Iran). We had 10,000 calls in two days or so.”

Although the Islamic Iranian government is accused of supporting terrorist bombers who are killing and injuring Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, Kichi believes average citizens would feel welcome here, more so than in the U.S.

“The Iranian people have never been terrorists, they never would be. There are one of the most educated people in the Middle East and they love to travel. They love Canada, with its diverse weather and geography.

David Adames, executive director of Tourism Hamilton, who learned of Kichi’s initiative from The Spectator today, called it “an absolutely intriguing” idea and said he would get in touch immediately “to see how we can support it.”

He said, “When Oscar was on the tourism board, he talked about the importance of new multicultural markets, especially for a city situated so close to Toronto.”