QR flights at YUL this summer:

YUL-DOH 4x weekly B77W
YUL-CDG daily A332 (begins June 15, wet lease by AC)
YUL-BCN daily A332 (begins June 15, wet lease by AC)
YUL-CMN daily B77W (begins June 21, operating on behalf of Royal Air Maroc)

Going to look like mini Doha at YUL!

Big day for WS. First TATL 787 flight goes out tonight YYC-LGW.

Also WS posted an update on its MAX8 schedule updates:
https://blog.westjet.com/guest-advis...update:twitter

-YHZ-CDG is suspended from June 3-August 2. (Poor YHZ first LHR now CDG)
-YEG-YOW suspended from June 3-July 3.
-YEG-YUL suspended from June 3-July 3.
-YYZ-YLW suspended from June 3-June 27.
-YVR-YQR suspended from June 3-July 3.

Air Canada drops Abbotsford-Toronto flight amid Boeing trouble
The daily non-stop flight will be suspended for the summer season, to return in 2020 summer season

ABBOTSFORD NEWS STAFF Apr. 27, 2019

https://www.abbynews.com/news/air-ca...oeing-trouble/

TATL from Halifax had been shaping up to be a great summer…but now besides the previously cancelled MAX8s to LHR on Air Canada and KEF on Icelandair…..CDG flight is gone

WestJet will still serve DUB, LGW and GLA from Halifax this summer on ‘737-700s and Condor is here with ‘767s to Frankfort.

Guess there’s summer ’20 to look forward to or if the MAX8 issues get straightened out…..late summer or fall ’19!

On Facebook a post is making the rounds of someone trying to get from St. John's to Paris at the end of May. WestJet routed them from St. John's to Halifax to Calgary with a 24-hour layover. That's about 9,250 km out of the way.

They could not possibly charge enough to cover that cost. They're losing money. Just put one fucking plane down in St. John's on its way across, Jesus. An hour of mainlander time for the landing isn't worth more than two days of ours no matter who they are.

They actually are.

~2,061$ round trip. May 23-30

AC is charging you half that for YYT-YUL-CDG-YUL-YYT on the same dates.

nice

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I came here to post this lol. I watched most of his clips. He's one of the few who does train rides which I like.

How well do you know your airport trivia?

Take the Canadian airport trivia quiz to find out!

https://questioningthedata.survey.fm/canadian-airports

Not well at all. I scored 36%, and it was almost all rank guesswork.

Damn that was a hard quiz! Definitely not for the average airport buff, it needed industry knowledge. 45% for me and I thought I was pretty well versed!

91%... using the logic of "picking the least likely answer" when guessing :D

Why are all the measurements in feet?

Airports are measured in feet. Aviation in general is that way.

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westjet had a go around at yvr. I wonder why

starts at 2:56
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March YVR stats are out, pretty poor overall.

http://www.yvr.ca/-/media/yvr/docume...date.pdf?la=en

Feeling the effects of the MAX grounding in a big way.

Overall up 2.1% to 2,132,950
Domestic up 1.4% to 1,001,618
International up 2.7% to 1,131,332

International breakdown
Transborder up 3.2%
Asia Pacific up 2.6%
Europe down 1.7%
Misc intl up 3.5%

YTD overall up 3.0% to 6.0 million
YTD Domestic up 2.6% to 2.8 million
YTD Intl up 3.3% to 3.2 million

So all in all pretty poor numbers, but with a big asterisk in the max groundings. It will be interesting to see if other Canadian airports feel a similar slowdown or if this is just more slow growth from YVR.

Seems like TS will be starting YUL-New Orleans next winter. 2x weekly B738 service.

MSY was one of the largest unserved US markets from YUL.

153rd destination for YUL, if my count is correct.

8th international destination for MSY.

it's A380 season

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