According to this article, SQ will have 5th freedom rights: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc...-route-yvr-sin

However, as of now, you cannot book a YVR-SEA flight on SQ’s website.

SQ confirmed on Instagram they will not sell seats on YVR-SEA-YVR.

Dailyhive is far from a credible source for such things.

More likely.SQ has the rights they have just decided it’s not worth the effort.

If you look at most of the agreements Canada has signed fifth freedom is fairly common.

https://aircanada.mediaroom.com/2021...-South-America

AC's going to serve EZE via GRU instead of SCL. Also YUL-GRU return is similarly timed to YYZ instead of a daytime return.

https://aircanada.mediaroom.com/2021...East-and-India

Do my eyes deceive me or did they actually refer to YYC as a hub in a international service presser. I don't remember the last time they used 'Calgary' and 'hub' in the same sentence. :haha:

That daytime return was awful for connections. The long layover in GRU is needed to pick up as many passengers as they can, and to optimize connections in YYZ/YUL.

Great to see YUL-GRU restarting, year round no less. Seems the EZE tag will originate with the flight number and frame from YUL as well.

YUL-DEL will be year round as well.

Me neither. Probably a few years ago now.

Looks like YUL-ALG didn't make the cut.

On the heels of Flair, YKF are planning to double the size of their terminal (which means it will still be small, but now a more reasonable size to handle multiple 737s a day): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...ghts-1.6211146

That would mean Flair will triple in size at YKF and/or they attract another airline. That would make them bigger than YHM. Seems lofty.

British Airways (BA) on November 12, 2021 will begin using the Airbus A350-1000 between Vancouver YVR & London Heathrow (LHR) 1 daily & it’s the 1st A350-1000 direct flights✈️for Western Canada.

YHM was almost at a million in 2019 IIRC and more than likely would have been well above it in 2020 if not for the pandemic. I imagine it’ll continue to outpace YKF, if even only slightly.

They also had at some point WestJet service to Calgary and Sunwing to sun destinations. Flair is not the only game in town at YKF.

On and off over the years they have had smaller regional aircraft doing runs to Ottawa mostly supporting the tech sector. That has usually been a point to point service from one of the independent regionals.

2019's 70k pax = WS & WG

Yeah when biz traffic returns, a YOW-YKF route would make a lot of sense. I know the reincarnation of Air Georgian have stipulated they want to do so on CRJs and or DH8s. It could also be a target for a daily Flair flight to connect two bases.

YOW's September pax stats:

Sector / Sep-20 / Sep-21 / % Change
Dom: 44,068 / 172,778 / +292.1%
TB: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
Int'l: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
TTL: 44,068 / 172,778 / +292.1%

Sector / YTD 2020 / YTD 2021 / % Change
Dom: 917,080 / 658,957 / -28.1%
TB: 163,093 / 0 / -100.0%
Int'l: 168,382 / 0 / -100.0%
TTL: 1,248,555 / 658,957 / -47.2% - Will need to average 113,681 pax/month in Q4 to hit 1 million in 2021 - will almost certainly happen. Will need to average 234,852 pax/month in Q4 to surpass 2020's total - not likely even with the vaccine passport.

The meaningful indicator these days
Month-Over-Month Change
Sector Aug-21 / Sep-21 / % Change
Dom: 207,745 / 172,778 / -16.8%
TB: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
Int'l: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
TTL: 207,745 / 172,778 / -16.8%
Avg/Day: 6,701 / 5,759 / -14.1%

12 Months Rolling / % Change vs Year End 2019
Dom: 773,914 / -80.6%
TB: 0 / -100.0%
Int'l: 0 / -100.0%
TTL: 773,914 / -84.8%

WS YKF-YYC still operates :)

In the 90s there was a division of Pem-Air that did the route with a King Air.

Pem-Air bread and butter route was YTA-YYZ in partnership with Canadian and CP. A route that has yet to come return. I did in many times in 90s. That one is long gone never to return.

Not really sure what AC's long term plan is...

For the two weeks for Dec-Jan 2022
Then for the rest of Jan 2022 till March:
Then the summer 2022 schedule:
So EZE is winter seasonal from YUL and summer seasonal from YYZ? They weren't quite sure what to do with South America yet?

[EDIT] Checked the booking site, so only 4 of the 7 weekly flight from YYZ during the summer will continue to EZE. The other ones, along with the 3 flights from YUL, will remain at GRU.

Maybe the S22 plans aren't finalized yet. Either way, it doesn't really matter where the EZE tag originates.

The goal is the same. Use both YYZ and YUL flights coming into GRU to feed your onward tag to EZE.

AC has always struggled with EZE. They tried going non stop a few years ago, it didn't work, so they reverted back to a one stop via SCL. This seems like another attempt at making the route work. Leveraging feed from both your east coast hubs might do the trick. Similar to what they are doing with MXP. That's something they couldn't do via a single flight from YYZ to SCL.

Pem-Air's YOW-YKF route was branded as Trillium Air and operated with a J31. 2x on weekdays and 1x on Sundays. After they shut down, Alberta-based QuikAir replicated the same schedule also with J31s...until they shut down. The route was routinely 'full' but was usually weight restricted to only 15 pax. QuikAir's bread & butter was YXD to YYC when YXD was still permitted to handle flights with up to 10 pax seats. As I recall, the huge oil price pike in 2008 did them in.

WestJet possibly might add direct flights✈️ between Calgary & Thunder Bay again at some point? Previously it was operated during the Summer.

In the CBC article mention,the airline is looking into it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thund...tjet-1.6170207

Westjet has been starting to neglect YHM again with the main carrier and through Swoop.

Here is an example of the YYC route with fares in November:

YHM-YYC: 3x weekly | Cheapest fare: $275
YKF-YYC: 5x weekly | Cheapest fare: $95
YYZ-YYC: Several Daily | Cheapest fare: $115

Westjet has such a monopoly at YHM that they can essentially charge whatever they want on the YYC route. I've been a victim of travelling to YKF instead because of the cheaper fares (I used flair instead).

In regards to Swoop, they have been more focused on providing YYZ with more routes and frequencies with YHM only getting what's leftover. I mean fair enough, it's a busier airport. But YHM does have demand for these routes.

Maybe Swoop will make a comeback next summer at YHM; they were going to offer flights to St. Johns, Moncton, Charlottetown before the pandemic. They were also going to offer Sun routes year-round such as Las Vegas, Cancun, Montego Bay, and Florida. But assuming the luck of YHM, they'll all go to YYZ instead.

It's interesting. WS originally had YHM as their eastern base and all but abandoned it for YYZ (except the YYC route). Now again for WO YHM was supposed to be the eastern base but now they're moving towards YYZ once again.