Salvation army is great to deal with. I volunteer with a refugee group and we loop them in regularly, from helping to find cheap places to live, employment, food pantries, English classes. They are run very well.

They don't have a perfect history, they are run by the English church after all, but over past 6 years they have been phenomenal. They have helped find around 300 homes for people, very good at taking lead and getting things done. Never a cost to our group, and almost none of the people we have worked with are Christian.

Good to see AC adding YHZ-EWR, even if it is on a turboprop. UA used to operate EWR for years on an RJ, so this is just filling in for that. I believe Delta and AA used to operate flights to NYC before as well, but doesn't look like they are coming back yet. Odd it is only winter seasonal though, I would guess they are testing the waters to make sure it works. But traffic in the summer season would be way higher, so hopefully they don't judge it based on winter traffic, and will give it a shot for the summer.

Although technically, EWR will no longer be a part of the NYC system..

Newark Airport will no longer be considered part of NYC — which could mean higher fare prices

As of now, it is grouped under the IATA code NYC along with LGA and JFK. But starting Oct. 3, it won't be. So technically they will just have service to Newark, not NYC. UA and AC must be annoyed at this, since they have lots of ops from EWR.

^ I don't believe its a big deal, really. The change only affects fares. Passengers and travel agents will still be able to find flights to all three airports when searching for flights from New York.

Besides, anyone that flies with any kind of regularity (be it once a year, or once a week), usually knows the airport codes they want to fly in/out of.

Case in point, who uses YMQ or YTO if they want to fly into Montreal or Toronto? My guess is, no one. They'll use YUL or YYZ/YTZ, or just type Montreal or Toronto.

Very few people use multi-airport city codes.

I know, I wasn't saying it was catastrophic or anything, just pointing it out that it's a change to the status quo, as EWR has been lumped in forever. Other than the fiar change thing, makes no difference, which is why I wonder why they even took the time to change it.

YHZ's transborder service is definitely unique. AA operates both BOS and DCA once weekly only during the summer. Are there any other Canadian airports than only have once weekly service from a US airline?? I feel like this frequency level is very rare from US carriers. For Canadian carriers it isn't common either, but certainly does happen especially with leisure routes. But US carriers usually serve with a decent level of frequency, or not at all. The once weekly seems to be a YHZ phenomenon. Correct me if I'm wrong. It is good for YHZ and shows something at least that they are willing to operate a flight frequency like this instead of just scrapping the routes, like what airlines did it YEG and other cities. I know there's obviously different circumstances, but how these routes operate but AA couldn't do the same on YEG-DFW or YEG-ORD still seems weird

Sub daily frequencies on a US airline to Canada seems very rare, I was surprised to see AA thinks YHZ-BOS 1x weekly is even worth operating. Besides Alaska's temporary drawback in some of western Canada (which is mostly due to operational issues and staffing shortages) I haven't recently seen anything like YHZ-BOS.

Before the pandemic, there used to be 1x weekly IAD-YVR on UA, 2x weekly DTW-YVR on DL during summer, and 3-5x weekly ATL-YVR on DL during winter.

Ahh yes, the IAD-YVR route certianly was one, good call. But even DTW being twice weekly was more understandable, and the YVR-ATL service was frequent enough to not be in the same category. But single weekly flights to two different destinations, and on the same day to boot, is a rarity, and YHZ seems to be the only one. In YVR's case, the weird once or twice weekly flights were strictly because of cruise ships, that's it. Is that true in Halifax's case? I know they have a big cruise indsutry, but I thought much of it was them being a stop on various Atlantic cruise itineraries, as opposed to a home port. Home ports are when the flights really count, since people fly into and leave from the home port, but not typically cities along the cruise route. Just a thought that cruises were a factor, but maybe not and they are just very popular travel days and AA can justify operating both routes. God I wish I still worked for an airline lol

Both flights (WO) Swoop Airlines that I was on,were pretty full load of passengers.
WO 302 Edmonton YEG- Toronto YYZ on Friday September 23 2022 & yesterday afternoon returning back home to YEG from YYZ on WO 303 too on October 1.

I had good 1 week trip in Toronto YYZ, area in Eastern Canada.

Also my 1st time to experience to travel on a ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) Swoop. Was just alright service & not bad. Although Swoop Airlines changed the time of my return flight from evening to afternoon 1 out of YYZ. (As originally the return flight was a evening 1).

Quebec City is the more common home port on the Atlantic side. It is also an airport that has very limited flight options and many passengers end up getting bussed into Montreal.

^ Now we know both routes will be year round.

YHZ's mostly a leisure destination, so Saturday-only service on a leisure route isn't unusual when an airline has slack in their fleet, and in the case of DCA, slack in the slots. Not much different than routes to Florida in winter that are weekly.

^ both of these are just metals swaps with UA. The full effect of the JV is now at work.

The YHZ-EWR service is fully replacing UA, UA is not operating the route as far as next summer at least. The YVR-IAH service is only replacing UA for November to late March, at which point UA resumes service alongside AC. So it's a winter replacement, but long term additional.

FYI, neither YHZ-EWR or YVR-IAH are bookable past April 30th at the moment. So either the press release mistakingly called them year-round, or they just haven't been loaded yet (AC usually loads the flights prior to the press release...). But they have been slipping with their press, they still never formally announced YVR-MIA, so who knows!

Looks like they'll have to be repainting some jet bridges as the Horribly Sh!tty Bank Company (I used to be a customer) is pulling out of Canada:

HSBC looks to sell Canadian operations that could fetch upwards of $10-billion
JAMES BRADSHAWBANKING REPORTER
PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO

HSBC has put its Canadian business up for sale as part of a strategic review, exploring a possible deal that could fetch upwards of $10-billion as the British-based bank comes under pressure from its largest shareholder to boost its performance.

“We are currently reviewing our strategic options with respect to our wholly owned subsidiary in Canada,” an HSBC HSBC-N +5.36%increase
spokesperson said in an e-mail. “Amongst the options being explored is a potential sale of HSBC Group’s 100-per-cent equity stake in HSBC Bank Canada.”

The Canadian arm of HSBC is the seventh-largest bank in the country with $125-billion in assets and roughly $5-billion of common equity. Its strength in Canada is commercial lending, which accounted for nearly 40 per cent of operating income in the most recent quarter. But it is a full-service bank with wealth management and capital markets divisions, as well as retail branches from B.C. to Quebec.

HSBC has been reviewing its strategy for months as its largest shareholder, Chinese insurance company Ping An, has pushed the British-based bank to consider spinning off its Asian operations. Though HSBC is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has operations around the world, it makes the majority of its revenue in Asia.....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...dian-business/

When do the YVR MIA flights start?

Also this statement in the press release kind of isn't true:

Is AC flying YVR-DFW this winter? If not, nothing really changes. From Oct. 31-Jan. 3 there is a single daily flight from Western Canada to IAH, and after that its just two daily (One each AC / UA). Which is basically what is offered today.

All in all, this basically sounds like they won't be restarting YYC-IAH and solely leaving it to UA.

Dec 17, 3x weekly 737 Max 8.

Thank you and awesome may have to book a week down there this winter.

AC does not operate YVR-DFW or YVR-AUS in winter, so adding YVR-IAH is an increase from YVR (increase from zero flights to Texas to once daily mainline). Although it is taking over from UA for the deep winter period, AC's claim is true since they aren't counting UA operated flights.

From YYC I have lost track of what AC operates normally and what their plans are, so couldn't say if they are gaining, losing, or staying the same.

Calgary is losing a lot of AC.