They're adding weekly flights to Santo Domingo as well with the 737-800.

Looks like Lisbon is year round now from YUL as well, Flights on Thursday.

wow!! finally! year round YUL-LIS!!! I think 1 weekly winter but still!!

Should be a matter of time before TAP announces YUL.

Not before 2019 in all likelihood. (once enough A321neoLR's are delivered)

Speaking of neo's, Wow Air recently received their first A320neo (reg: TF-NEO). They have been utilizing it extensively to YUL on this side of the pond ! It rotates at CPH or LGW, depending on the day.

https://www.flightradar24.com/flight/ww251

https://www.flightradar24.com/reg/tf-neo

Think ROUGE will do YUL-LIS? 3 weekly?

Just noticed that there are now direct flights between Melbourne and Vancouver with Air Canada. Right on.

Just home from Buenos Aires. Now there's a place just begging for better airport infrastructure and capacity and routes. I used Jorge Newbery (AEP) and Ministro Pistarini (EZE). Just 20,000,000 between the two for a city of +12 million people. EZE (international flights) was modern more or less, but lacked a lot of amenities. The coolest thing at AEP (domestic)was the park sticking out into the River Plate. I don't know how, but they manage +11,000,000 passengers with a single runway.

I also was in Mendoza; MDZ was a small but nice little airport. Felt like Victoria (YYJ). Two cool things in Mendoza: Vancouver's old trollybuses in red livery, and at the airport, a squadron of old air-force fighters taking off in front of us (I was told they were recently upgraded Lockheed Martin A-4s).

Oh, and I almost forgot the 1st world complaining: Mexico City to BA was another torture-fest for this guy, doubly so with a window seat but clouds the whole way, both ways. You more frequent fliers will be happy to know, I kept smiling anyway - the whole way through.

That's not really that amazing, considering that last year, LGW served over 43M passengers with a single runway.

Wouldn't shock me. If demand picks up, why not.

Like i've said numerous times, just goes to show that a city's population has no correlation to the number of passengers that pass through it's airports.

Good point unless you talk about China!:cheers:

Cool shot of the YVR transborder hammerhead's new LED apron lighting:

http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51...ODM4MA%3D%3D.2
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUfGUYdh...rairport&hl=en

Pretty good mix of tails too, I see a Westjet, 2 American Airlines, 3 United, Cathay to JFK and a Rouge 767.

Way too bright if you ask me.

Wonder how the tower controllers feel about that new lighting. During nightime, the bright lights can block essential parts of the airport that need to be seen from the control tower. Here at YUL, they also put strong white lights such as those in the new international jetty extension. Those lights were blocking the control tower's view of the threshold of runway 06L at night. Kind of an SMS issue when you can't see the planes lining up at the threshold ! We asked the airport authority to replace them with the standard soft white lights instead.

Not really. China is not exempt. The same can be seen over there.

Take Tianjin, metro area 15 million, airport handles less than 17 million passengers.

Looked great when I landed the other night, planes really popped.

No idea how it effects the tower, but as a user of the airport it's definitely a better experience.

Looks great. I see no issues with the lighting. I wouldn't worry about the YUL issues too much, either. Tough to see through $17B in equalization payments and a sea of AC/Jazz(mostly CRJ2) tails....

----for the record, I'm just busting your balls, AK. :D
That's just how bored we are here (until things pick up, in 20 years or so)

That was my first thought too. I imagine it's great for the apron workers, but I do wonder how much glare the bright lights affect the tower controllers.

It all depends on the line of sight from the tower. I know YVR tower is about 45 ft taller than YUL's, so the new lighting might affect it less than it did us.

Well, you could always bid to come back to YUL. After the two year freeze that is !

I'd be lying if I said it hadn't crossed my mind more than a few times. :tup:

I think you might have proved my point. China is so big that a place like Tianjin so close to Beijing. Is like having the Hamilton airport close to the Toronto airport?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ports_in_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...senger_traffic

Ok. Let's use Toronto and Hamilton as an example.

Both of them together, they have a metro area population of 6.6 million people. Both airports together handle about 45 million passengers. That's 7x the population.

Now Beijing and Tianjin. Both of them together have a metro area population over 40 million people, yet both airports (PEK and TSN) combined handle 111 million passengers a year. That's not even 3x the population. So on a per capita basis, even the Chinese airports don't rival the large hubs of North America and Europe.

China is no different than Argentina or airports in Africa in that context. (Overly populous cities, little activity at their airports vs the city population.)

http://avolon.aero/wp/wp-content/upl...oney-Final.pdf

http://avolon.aero/wp/wp-content/upl..._Money_Pt2.pdf

http://www.anna.aero/2016/07/26/chin...nally-in-2016/

I do not agree with your argument with China being no different than Argentina or African airports.

A quote from the part two pdf