Makes perfect sense. The US has a COIVD test before departure and it looks like they will be adopting a quarantine requirement of their own. Would not be surprised if it ends up being nearly identical to the Canadian one.

For example, someone from Vancouver wanting to Vacation in Canada would need to get a COVID test before their departing flight. Spend a week or two in quarantine in California. Do the vacation thing then get a COVID test and return to Canada and then Quarantine.

That does not sound like a viable vacation.

Sounds like in Toronto it is Four Points Sheraton and the Radison Suites next to the congress center. I have stayed at the Radisson more times than I care to remember. The hotel rooms are fine.

However it sounds like the meals are being catered by the Red Cross and likely on par with hospital food.

I in no way support anything Rebel Media puts out. Ok I strongly disagree with nearly everything Rebel Media puts out and the weird conspiracy theories they cling to. However in a very rare case they did better than the general media they went searching for and found the quarantine hotels and have a few videos on youtube showing the setup.

"someone from Vancouver wanting to Vacation in Canada" . . . sounds like an excellent way to stop the spread!

Not many Vancouverites want to vacation east of the Rockies. :P

Was intending to say someone from Vancouver wanting to vacation in the US.

The US requires a clean COVID test before departure (similar to Canada), and quarantine on arrival in the US. Then to come back it is another COVID test before departure and quarantine on arrival in Canada.

True.

Transat ceasing all ops (again) until April 30th, except for repatriation flights over the next two weeks: https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...814392949.html.

I was mostly referring to connections. The government requested Canadian airlines stop flying to sun destinations but foreign carriers still can. AeroMexico is still going to fly between Canada and Mexico and those sun destinations can still be reached via connections on UA and AA, which puts Canadian airlines at a disadvantage against those foreign carriers.

The one aspect about their new restrictions I see actually deterring leisure travel is having to spend $2000 for three nights in a airport hotel.

Case in point:
https://www.traveloffpath.com/canadi..._W3Ycq1GP1xeO4

Also it sounds like AM is actually suspending its Canadian ops from mid-February to late April as well.

Not in winter anyway.

Just heard the WAA (YWG) CEO state that YWG-MSP will soon be suspended. It’s amazing it lasted this long considering earlier in the pandemic it survived yet was doing worse than other DL transborder routes that were cut.

This is one of the routes that seemed targeted by Ottawa's recent announcement requiring non-domestic flights to go through the big 4 airports, the other being that one that goes from Iqaluit to somewhere in Greenland.

There's a lot of history behind that YWG-MSP route... DL's predecessor NW started running it sometime in the late 20s/early 30s (online sources vary), so closing in on a century. It's been running for pretty well as long as YWG has existed. And more to the point, it is an important safety valve in an otherwise Star Alliance-dominated market.

I'm sure Delta will be back in Winnipeg. It's such a short hop to Delta's hub at MSP.

Yes....and no different than Halifax on the short hop into the US Northeast on AC, UA, DL and AA to BOS, EWR, LGA and PHL. They'll all be back when this thing is over! AA has already said that YHZ-PHL will be mainline when it comes back.

Transport Canada are working on improving snow/ice/slush runway condition phraseology to improve safety: https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada-...ppery-runways/

The UK has extended the slot waiver - with conditions through Summer 2021. Newly allocated slots are exempt and the 80/20 rule still applies. I don't believe any Canadian obtained new slots for LON airports, but I think both AC / WS both received additional slots for DUB.

https://londonairtravel.com/2021/01/...t-slot-waiver/

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...tion-V15.0.pdf

The EU proposed lowering the usage requirement from 80/20 to 40/60 back in December but there hasn't been any update since. So far, only the UK has extended the slot waiver.

This AC (advisory circular) published by Transport Canada last week is interesting, to say the least.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/ref...-302-032#toc55

Currently, only 13 airports in Canada are officially designated as "international". And yet, many more use the term "intl", such as YYJ, YLW, YHM, YXX.

Those airports will have until June 30, 2021 to officially submit a request to TC for the designation, and prove they meet the requirements, or else they will have to remove the "intl" name from their aeronautical products. (Aeronautical products are those that pilots use to navigate in/out of airports)

No requirements - that i can see- for airports to remove the name "intl" from their signs/posters/website and other commercial publications, however they might eventually end up doing it anyways.

Definition of an international airport:

Very true.

Perhaps Toronto or Montreal once, but most go south, Europe or Far East from my experience.

Why is TC meddling in something like that? What difference does it make to them if Hamilton's airport calls itself "international" or not? And why aren't transborder flights considered international? I mean, they are literally to another country that isn't ours... if that isn't international, then what is?[QUOTE=thenoflyzone;9177752]This AC (advisory circular) published by Transport Canada last week is interesting, to say the least.

TC regulates aeronautical publications. They are totally within their right to meddle into and enforce something like this.

Again, this doesn't mean that come July 1, the signs at airports will change. This only affects publications pilots use (airport charts, approach charts in the CAP, airport information in the CFS, etc), at least for now.