Looks like Jetlines is no longer aiming to be a LCC or ULCC.

From their website, they say they are "value-focused leisure airline"... so it's probably more like Sunwing without the package option.

Actually even west of Manitoba Westjet is gutting service. They no longer fly daily from Saskatoon or Regina to Toronto.

Moncton to Toronto and St. John's, NL to Toronto are no longer daily on Westjet either.

Meanwhile AC has maintained these daily flights to Canada's largest airport and city.

Interesting. YHZ-DUB & YHZ-GLA nonstop were still bookable a week ago. All that's left is full Y fares via YYZ (or YYC!). In other words, YYZ-Europe is probably toast too.

Yup good analogy for YOW...and it's been like that for decades and at one time was even deliberately done to the airport/city by the federal government. Back in the days of regulation, the government would deny routes operating to YOW (e.g., AA wanted to serve YOW-ORD in the 80s and the gov't said no because of AC crying about it) or they'd make ridiculous rules for operating to YOW such as when US was granted authority to launch YOW-PIT it was on the condition that the aircraft had no more than 60 seats. As such, they flew their 65 seat F28s on the route and had to block a row of seats to somehow protect the almighty AC...even though the first non-Florida transborder route from YOW on AC wasn't until the CRJ arrived at around the time of Open Skies. Ah good times. AC's first ever CRJ route was YOW-EWR.

Weren't the YHZ nonstops taken out of the schedule a couple months ago?

YYJ getting a new air traffic control tower by 2026.

The current tower dates back to 1958, and I believe has line of sight issues with a new taxiway they built.

https://www.navcanada.ca/en/news/new...oria-b.c..aspx

Concept drawing of the new tower.

https://www.saanichnews.com/news/new...ional-airport/

https://bpsne.wpenginepowered.com/wp..._1-640x433.jpg

^ "The Great Canadian Control Tower Thread" would actually be kind of interesting :)

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrI...=ReportSection

WS applied and obtained 3x weekly slots to serve YYC-DXB in S23. This marks the first time an actual destination was listed in the report, so wonder if this means it may actually happen.

If they do go ahead it would be a great way to capture some of that leisure and VFR traffic to South Asia. It seems like a route that would also work year round.

3x weekly would be a good way of testing the waters. It would require 1 787 frame (I think?) and could see what demand is from YYC. It'll probably be heavy on VFR traffic, so daily frequency isn't a huge concern. It will be frequent enough that one would shift their vacation time by a day or two on each side for the more direct route.

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Yep & looks like Canada Jetlines plans to add a 2nd US flight ✈️ route from Toronto YYZ- US also in early 2023.

CANADA JETLINES SCHEDULES MELBOURNE FL LAUNCH IN JAN 2023

Canada Jetlines yesterday (10NOV22) announced its second US route launch, where it’ll be offering Toronto – Melbourne FL route. The airline’s Airbus A320 aircraft will operate this route once weekly, starting 19JAN23.

AU200 YYZ0900 – 1143MLB 320 4
AU201 MLB1512 – 1755YYZ 320 4

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221111-aujan23mlb

Interesting, hopefully it does happen. As it will be good for Calgary YYC & Western Canada.

Do they have a partner in Dubai they could use to connect to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Could it be EK with their partnership with Air Canada?

Westjet still codeshares with Emirates. That gives passengers a pretty extensive choice of connecting routes for much of the Middle East/South Asia.

It's partly why AC conveniently 'forgot' about its tiff with the Middle East 3 (Emirates/Qatar/Etihad) airlines a few years back and got into a partnership with Emirates. The advantage of a connecting partner there is increasing by the day.

Ah makes sense! Well this hopefully goes forward, Western Canada should definitely have a ME connection.

I had last looked just over a week ago and they were still there then. Only YHZ-LGW had been pulled a while back. Now DUB, GLA & CDG are gone too.

This past summer YHZ had a ridiculous amount of transatlantic capacity, even more than pre-pandemic, so it's hardly surprising that something had to give.

YHZ are still in pretty damn good shape for Europe service with DE to FRA, LH flanker brand Eurowings to FRA and AC to LHR.

Transatlantic is a labour intensive operation relative to intra-continent. You burn up lots of crew time and then have to place them at a hotel for crew rest, not having them back at their own home. The shortest flights are 6 hour affairs, minimum.

Unless one is cleaning up on fares and it doesn’t sound like Westjet was, being short staffed and using limited crew time on a handful of summer Europe flights are probably the less profitable option versus cashing in on domestic summer peak time.

That's a good point. Based on the slot allocation at EDI it indicated WS wants to increase YYZ-EDI service. Maybe they'll concentrate the 2-3 daily flights at YYZ then, if they keep those flights at all.

The Pivot Airlines crew are finally being set free. It’s all over the news. At long last!

Jet stays behind?

Thank goodness! It makes me think twice about working a flight or taking a vacation into the DR ever again!