Politicians and senior management need to stay the hell back from this RTS effort and let the regulators and engineers get it right. If they botch RTS and another catastrophe occurs with this design, irrespective of the cause but especially if it's even remotely MCAS related, not only will this type be done, but I predict BCA as we know it will be done as well.

The future of Boeing Commercial Aircraft hinges on a successful RTS. My opinion.

what do you do when your flight has been cancelled? it leaves sunday at 6:45 pm and I just got notice at 1:15 am. ffs I need to get home. Should I find an alternative flight? air canada is on one hour call waiting If I need to leave early I need to know now

after nearly 2 hours on hold they rebooked me on an earlier flight and cancelled a flight I booked just in case. I am lucky I am a night owl, I only got the notice after 1 am. I imagine the rest of the people booked on the flight will only find out when they wake up or show up at the airport missing the earlier flight option.

This was the reason the original flight was cancelled.
what does that mean? no crew available?

Indeed. Just here in Canada, Boeing directly employs around 1,600 people. Most of them in Winnipeg.

Indirectly, they also have around 560 suppliers scattered around the country who will be impacted by the shutdown.

I know at least 4 Quebec companies that provide Max parts to Boeing and will
be impacted by the shutdown.

Alphacasting, Avior, Meloche and the GE plant in Bromont.

I would imagine Rainbow Lake/High Level only has a 1 daily CMA - 6 seater King/day to YEG. Not a lot of options for you there boss......

I fly out of ft st john. I drive down 7 hours, there are no flights out of rainbow lake anymore they cancelled them a while ago. when there were it would cost over $1200.

I can either fly out of fsj direct or grande prairie via calgary or edmonton.

7 hrs to John....why not just do 7 hours to GP instead? Or are you in Ft.Nelson rather than Rainbow?

cause it's cheaper to fly out Ft St john and its a 90 minute flight direct to Vancouver. From GP I have to fly via Calgary or Edmonton and depending on the connection can be stuck in one of those airports for up to 3 hours. Plus FSJ is my hometown so I know my way around and the parking is cheaper.

Anyway, Air Canada didn't send me any messages until 2 pm today that the flight was cancelled. I only found out because of my google assistant. Had I not had that I would have been driving there only to find out there was no flight to get to and I would have been stuck trying to find a hotel and losing a day at home. Not too impressed with Air Canada today. Also there was no acknowledgement on the flight board that the flight was cancelled either.

Swoop will fly to Charlottetown, Moncton and St. John's starting June 2020

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...ork-expansion/

1x weekly for Charlottetown.. nice to have, but that’s not a very useful frequency. Maybe by 2021 they will increase it to a more useful 3x a week or something.

This is fantastic for Hamilton, YHM!

Awesome to bring back Moncton to YHM. One side of my family lives in Nova Scotia, and Moncton is closer than Halifax. Plus I like smaller airports, less hustle and bustle.

It sounds like I'll plan a summer vacation in St. John's.

Probably delays caused the crew scheduled to time out, and they couldn't find replacements. That's the problem with regional flying a delay in one of the aircraft's first legs cascades through the whole day.

It is 3 weekly.

I think that figure for the Boeing head count is now closer to 2,000 when you include the subsidiary in Vancouver that does aerospace software and analytics. There is a number of companies in Vancouver and Victoria that also support that operation.

Passenger trafffic down at St. John's International Airport in 2019

Loss of Dublin direct flight, Boeing 737 Max groundings cited as contributing factors

https://www.thetelegram.com/news/loc...n-2019-392352/

This is the first year I've ever heard of so many people (relatives, family friends, neighbours, and relatives of people we know) literally not making it home for Christmas. Lots stuck in Toronto, Halifax, and Deer Lake.

If I hear about Dublin direct from St. John's again, I swear....

St. John's (YYT) passenger numbers (not including December for comparison) are not looking good compared to 2016. It's too bad the airport expansion has not translated into more passenger traffic.

https://i.postimg.cc/CxNH5B2W/yyt.png

Even I'm sick of it at this point. Just fly somewhere else (maybe not Fort Lauderdale or Edmonton though).

The airport has spent too much money expanding the terminal and transforming the airport into something more usable to be losing passengers. All levels of government involved with the airport need to put together a solid plan moving forward (airport authority, city of St. John's, provincial government). Right now the plan just seems to tread water and try not to drown.

When expanding routes there needs to be some greater vision. Why do we need direct flights to Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, and Orlando? Wouldn't we be better off with a direct to NYC over 3 locations in Florida?

Newfoundlanders fly a lot to Florida. I remember back in my CanJet days, for Florida flights out of YHZ, YOW, YUL and YYZ, sometimes 1/3 of those were filled with YYT connections. It's not really a question of either or, but how to get a YYT-US hub connction while maintaining/expanding YYT-Florida.

Here's two realistic things YYT should focus on: getting YOW nonstops and service on Porter back up to year-round service.

YYT was hurt a bit by the MAX grounding a bit in 2019. For example YOW-YYT didn't operate all of July and when it was operating, it was on a CRA instead of the usual E90...future A220 route. I'm pretty sure YYT-YUL saw reduced capacity too.