Vancouver (like Toronto) is spread over a wide area. YXX has crappy connections relative to YVR for anyone in the City of Vancouver. YXX is actually a fairly good option for many people living in Surrey, the municipality that in the coming decades will have a population greater than the City of Vancouver.

Today the problem with YXX is it is dominated by all of these ultra low cost carriers that lack any reasonable network connection beyond a handful of destinations. At some point AC and WS will re-enter YXX with frequent connections to major hubs and it will live up to its potential. Until then it will have flair and the odd flight swooping in but not real substance.

Partially they were. KF have still always had a small cargo airline op with the Convairs in BC. Exciting to see them get back in the charter game.

I remember them back stopping First Air in Nunavut with some aircraft and crews for a time.

I actually don't remember that...and I used to work for 7F. Must have been after my time there. Summit supplied 7F with a 146 though for about 3 years.

Also 7F/5T pretty much operate YWG-YYQ-YRT as a joint venture with MQ.

I think YXX will still remain a bit player. It is not closer for many people in Surrey, YVR is still closer. It is however a big plus for the growing areas in the central and eastern Fraser Valley (ie. Chilliwack). And YXX is good for point to point, and heavily for to and from Alberta. I don't think Air Canada has major plans for YXX, just like how they don't for YHM, these airports will stay the way they are for some time. Just look at the multitude of Los Angeles area airports, none of them have taken away from LAX. Having YXX and YHM are not harming YVR and YYZ, it makes the whole region more connected

Alaska Airlines resumes Edmonton YEG- Seattle SEA 1x daily flights✈️ today & operated by the Q400 plane. It’s the 1st US airline to resume nonstop flights at YEG ,since 2020.

That is good news. It need connections by major airlines into their hubs to have reasonable service.

It was looking like Edmonton was heading to being one of those airport that was dominated by ultra low cost carriers. Not good for a major Canadian citiy.

This is great news...

https://media.aircanada.com/2022-04-...,000-Customers

So passenger loads seem to be back to about 60-70% of normal? That's higher than I expected it to be.

https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/scr...passenger-data

April 17, 2022, CATSA screened 101,854 departing passengers at our 8 busiest airports.

Same day in 2019, it was 146,436.

So yeah, that's around 70%. Very encouraging.

I'm doing my main medical conference virtually again this year. It works pretty well, but I expect to attend next year in person, so, yes, I intend to start flying again in about one year.

The CAQ has announced that it will be capping round trip airfares at 500 dollars for flights within Quebec in a move to cut the cost of flying to and from far-flung regions of the province.

That sounds like a policy that could backfire.

YUL posted Jan and Feb numbers. (Increases are based on the same month last year.)

Jan 606,677 +182%
Feb 621,708 +460%

https://www.admtl.com/sites/default/...et_2022_EN.pdf

YYC has Jan, Feb and March posted.

Jan 653,700 +155%
Feb 698,846 +264%
March 950,174 +327%

https://www.yyc.com/en-us/media/fact...tatistics.aspx

YVR has Jan numbers up.

Jan 776,045 +208%

https://www.yvr.ca/-/media/yvr/docum...fic-update.pdf

YUL seems to be gaining ground on YYC. Wonder if they'll retake 3rd spot this year. March/April numbers should start telling the story.

Reminder of 2021 numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...in_Canada#2021

I wonder if there’ll be an exemption for Nunavik? You can’t fly YUL-YVO or anywhere else to the north profitably at sub-$500 round trip airfares.

I'll be curious to see how a US judge's ruling that the US federal government can't require masks on flight impacts Canadian transborder flights. You can bet on a substantial amount of belligerent, ill-informed American flyers insisting they don't need to wear a mask on their flight to Toronto etc. :rolleyes:

Sunwing meltdown continues into today.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/techni...gers-1.5867187

Who are they using for there system? This is bad when it goes on from day to day.

They'll probably be reminded when they announce boarding for the flight, and several times throughout the flight as well.

The Transport minister announced today that they are keeping the mask mandate on planes and trains for now.

I think Nunavik will be exempt, based on the following map of admissible routes. And there is no reason why a Dash 8 flight from Montreal to Val D'or should be more than $500 RT. Nunavik is much further, so there I agree.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...bais-bonnardel

https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_aut...gions-vols.JPG

That's precisely what I was wondering. Cheap airfares don't do a lot of good if there are no airlines flying to your airport.

Interesting Sungwing is using Airline Choice as their software supplier and it looks like what continues to require them to manually check in passengers was a cyber threat.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/sunwin...each-1.5868952