Agreed. Excluding transborder traffic, YYZ is still the fourth largest port of entry into NA behind JFK, MIA, and LAX.

It is pathetic that our airports are named after politicians instead of pioneering Canadian pilots who have significantly contributed to Canada's aviation history and/or progress. For example: Regina's airport is named after Canada's first commercially-licenced pilot.

Agreed. When that garbage "name YYC Stephen Harper International" came around I was pretty vocal online about how YYC already had a name, McCall Field. Named after Fred McCall, WWI air ace.

If any name change was entertained it should only be to give the naming back to him.

In Kingston our airport is named after a politician; but said politician died in an airplane crash, so it's a little more relevant I guess :haha:

I didn't realize this was even an issue. It's an extremely common practice all over the world.


Edit: misread the story, so deleted the part of my post pertaining to that.

Well, hell. I think I love planes and airports as much as most of you, and maybe I will feel differently in a day or two, but man that was tough. No matter what you pay, your still just getting a chair, even if its a recliner. After all the flying and work in Europe, the 10+ MUC-YVR was hell. I don't know how you guys do these long multi-flight trips with any regularity. I fly a fair bit but almost never more than a two connection affair. If I had been in economy, I swear I would be dead. (I am not good at sleeping)

The Harport has a ring to it.

For me it was much easier when I was young. Now I also find it tough.

Yeah, I have a kid's fascination with airports. To kill time before my flight boards, I usually walk to the far ends of terminals that I've never been to before, even though there's nothing exciting to be found at the end of my walk. And I love watching planes. It's not just that they're some of the most sophisticated and complex machines that most of us will ever encounter in our regular lives, but, to paraphrase Alain de Boton, if you stare out onto the tarmac of a major airport you might be staring at tens of billions of dollars of equipment all idling away. That thought always blew me away.

On the other hand, flying repetitively sucks the life out of you. The jet lag and the weird eating hours throws off your internal clock. The food in airports is almost always awful. The stores are all the same, and they're almost always boring. The waiting for an hour here and there makes it very difficult to get real work done, yet even if you only take an hourlong flight, if it's in the middle of the day, half of your day is gone.

I've read stories about people who spend most of their waking life flying to game those frequent flyer points systems and that strikes me as a waste of a life.

Nname posted the following news in the YVR thread of the Vancouver section:

Another positive step for YVR and its ongoing goal of Chinese market route development.

It looks like Beijing Capital Airlines will operate the route with A332 hardware, or potentially in the longer term the A333 that it has on order.

https://www.planespotters.net/airlin...pital-Airlines

Looks like a colourful livery:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...al_Airport.jpg

YVR is on a roll.

Wonder what the China-YVR passenger numbers are. They surely must be close to the France-YUL numbers, if not more.

YFB getting closer.

8 time larger than the current terminal.

And for anyone wondering. those grey sticks out front of the terminal in one of the photos. those are Flat loop Thermosyphons. They keep the ground (Permafrost) under the building frozen.And allow the building to be placed at grade making it more energy efficient.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...inal-1.3724711

http://www.arcticfoundations.com/ind...-thermosyphons

This expansion is desperately needed. The last time I went through the Iqaluit Airport, it was stuffed to the gills.

^^^ Sweet! I would fly up there after the new terminal was built. What could a tourist do on a sunny summer weekend?

Hike. head out on the water. kayak down the bay.

Last time I was up I had to stand outside because there were so many people in. plus about 4 groups heading north for a run at the pole.

Cool. That's a part of Canada most of us never see.

about 3500 to get to YFB from YEG. That's why.

See attached.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/timtay...57622892049671

The funny thing is you can go for next to nothing if you use a relatively small amount of Aeroplan points... this source says it's 15,000 points to go from Toronto or Ottawa, so I doubt Edmonton would be higher.

So really, you throw down $120 for a credit card that comes with 25,000 bonus points and you've got almost enough for two people to fly up there.

Wife used that way when she came up with me one year. I wanted to get her to Pond inlet that trip but weather issues killed that plan. still it another 700-1000 to get to the north end of the island which I find is the best part.