Full list for YVR:

Asia: Air China, ANA, Beijing Capital, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, EVA, HK Airlines, JAL, Korean, PAL, Sichuan, Xiamen

Europe: Air France, British, Condor, Edelweiss, Icelandair, KLM, Lufthansa

Oceania: Air NZ, Qantas

Right...missed Condor, Icelandair, and Edelweiss

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/...h-in-may-2017/

Nice !

Montreal 2015 (link)

Domestic: 5.874 million.
"International": 5.933 million.
"Transborder": 3.709 million.
("Real" international: 9.642 million).

Melbourne 2015 (link)

Domestic: 24.217 million
International: 8.772 million.

Toronto & Montreal: 508km (as the crow flies), 544km / 5h19m (google maps/directions). Reasonable train travel time of circa 5 hours.
Melbourne & Sydney: 706km (as the crow flies), 878km / 9h 29m (google maps/directions). Abysmal train travel time of 11h and 22m.

Toronto & Montreal have relatively few physical obstacles between them thus land routes are fairly direct & quick (regardless of the lack of high speed rail). I'm betting Toronto & Montreal were linked with the high-quality limited-access road between the two decades before Melbourne & Sydney were (it was only a few years ago that it became possible to drive from near the centres of each city and not meet a single traffic light in between).

Melbourne & Sydney have the great dividing range (including the highest part) between them and therefore land routes avoid the range and travel inland (shortest route "Hume Hwy" - figures above) or around the coast (longest "Princes Hwy" ~1038km / 12h39m).

Here's the annual report for 2015 from BITRE on domestic aviation in AU and a breakdown of city-pair traffic: http://bitre.gov.au/publications/ong...ivity_2015.pdf Is there an equivalent for Canada somewhere readily readable? It'd be interesting to compare Montreal & Toronto to Vancouver versus Melbourne & Sydney to Perth.

I think this analysis is pretty good.

I live in the middle of the Montreal-Toronto corridor and air passengers between the two cities tend to be overwhelmingly business travellers. People visiting friends or family, students, people going to weddings, and leisure travellers don't tend to fly between Toronto and Montreal.

When you start pushing 1000 km or 10 hours for a drive (especially if the road links are not optimal), then that's when more of your average people travelling for personal reasons start taking the plane.

Tweet put out by airlineroute.net that TAP is starting YYZ, June 10, 2017, 5x weekly on a 330.

YUL likely to follow with seasonal...

:frog:Interesting ...Rouge, Transat, air Azores (Sata) Now TAP... quite a lot of airlines serving Portugal from YYZ ...none of them are daily or I think rouge is? Damn .....hope TAP comes to YUL

Woohoo so that's confirmed. Timetables loaded onto reservation systems as per airliners.net

When I first came to Canada on vacation (that would've been summer 1994) I remember seeing a TAP L1011 and an Iberia DC10. That was after arriving on a Swissair MD11 Those were the golden days of flags at YYZ - it's only going to get better from here!

Tomorrow, CZ starts their YYZ route. Can't wait to see that colourful tail at T3.

Rouge is going daily, but seasonal.

Air Transat is year round, but I believe 1pw.

SATA is year round, but it's 1pw via Ponta Delgada.

It'll be a bloodbath in the summer.

How long is the summer season for travel? I need to go somewhere in early fall, lol.

End of October IIRC.

Anyone with a bit of know how on YYZ please chime in. The complaints about lack of gate space and customs capacity at Pearson have really hit a crescendo lately. Planes waiting up to 30 mins on the Tarmac for a gate, planes unable to disembark passengers due to the customs hall being at capacity... these things are terribly embarrassing for an airport vying to be a mega hub. Why not open the infield terminal? Renovate it and send some non-AC flights over. Beats sitting on the Tarmac. Customs is a federal problem so be it.

Around that time I traveled on the TAP L1011 from Toronto to Lisbon. Only a few days per week. The flight was had a stop in Maribel both going and coming back. I remember back then, typical Portuguese hospitality, in economy when they handed out the meal tray, the default was to just put two of those little bottles of wine on every tray. Port afterwards.

Long before TAP operated the route it was an old Canadian Pacific Airlines route. Toronto-Maribel-Lisbon and return.

The in-field terminal would need to be connected by shuttle bus from either Terminal 1 or Terminal 3. (Not certain how well it would work with shuttles from both). They need to decided who is running out of space more quickly, Air Canada/Star or everyone else.

I agree it needs to be addressed.

I can confirm that often aircraft are sat on some taxiway waiting for a gate to open. Usually it's around 10minutes or so, but 30mins is not rare either. One of the biggest problem with Pearson is the location of the terminals and the access in/out for aircraft. A toaster rack layout like at Atlanta for example is much more efficient, but sadly it would never get built that way here in Pearson.

I've heard various rumours as to why the Infield terminal isn't utilised more, but they are just rumours. They boil done to money and lack of interest from airlines to use it. Whether that's true officially, I do not know. From an aircraft perspective it would make sense to use it, although it's not as straightforward as it is getting passengers there.

Air Canada Spices up its U.S. Schedule with Six New Transborder Routes for 2017

http://aircanada.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1086

Air Canada is growing at an incredible rate.

Looks like Canada Jetlines are one step closer to becoming operational. Still a long way to go before we see them flying, but this is a step in the right direction.

Canada Jetlines Approval For Foreign Ownership Exemption

One waits to see whether they choose YKF or YHM for their planned Southern Ontario hub. I've also heard YXU mentioned, but that seems less likely to me.

Guess this links up with the 5 CRJ900s AC is taking delivery of in 2017.

AC playing it pretty safe out of YVR and YUL taking existing or strong routes, but really making a splash at YYZ with some 'unique' choices.

The really interesting routes will be once they start taking CS300s. Should open up some long/thin continental routes, hopefully including more central american flying.

I always thought YHM was their plan, YKF would be an interesting choice.