With crickets making more noise than the economy in the west, WS has to ply their Q's somewhere. Nice additions for YUL, now we'll see how the Québécois respond to the 'anglo' airline in their backyard. Get ready, AK, that's another 500+ movements every month.:tup:

Indeed. AC has a stranglehold on the Moncton/Montreal route, and are adding another flight this year for 6X daily, but WJ would be a great addition. There's a lot of traffic on the Montreal service out of Moncton (a natural given the Acadian connection).

WJ is increasing their Moncton/Toronto service to 3X daily this year. I'm sure that Moncton/Montreal must be on their radar for future expansion.

Bring it on. More movements are welcome. About time we pass YYC on that front as well :cheers:

Will the new train have a stop at this new terminal? That would be great .. I also wonder if the new terminal will be domestic or transborder only?

Probably have already. It's deadsville here...:tumbleweed:

One would've expected so before now, no?

We know about the route announcements,but I'm hoping for something larger to attract the Transport Minister. Perhaps this will be a commitment fromWS to abide by the same customer facing language provisions as AC public participation act requirements.

Back one year ago, WS signed a long term commercial agreement with GTAA that was on similar terms to the AC LTA. The AC LTA gave rebates for exceptional pax growth at YYZ and gave fixed cost fee environment so long as reasonable growth targets were met.

Fast forward to today and WS is rapidly expanding in YUL and not deploying new aircraft to YYZ. Why the change in focus?

I find it hard to believe that WS has run out of profitable flying from YYZ. My thinking is that WS has run out of room at YYZ. With AB economy in the tank and YYZ out of room at commercially profitable times, WS has no where else to go but to YUL.

Came across this today while walking around Downtown. I miss those free chocolate bars and real silverware.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4gRXYwUkAAelkS.jpg
https://twitter.com/IanOyeg

Interesting idea. A flight attendant base for both Encore and mainline would make sense when it comes to hiring French speaking flight attendants.

Do they base any inflight staff out of Montreal currently or is it all Calgary and Toronto?

Max 7 is only 76 inches longer then the 737-700 adding 12 seats in 2 rows. Still smaller then the Max 8.

And that's a pretty big hole from the Q400 to there.

No. YUL sees a lot of heavies. Much more so than YYC. Meaning that even with 1 million more passengers, YUL has less movements than YYC. This past summer, I've counted over 26 heavies on the ground at YUL at once. See below for aircraft movement numbers...

No yet. Next year. 2016 numbers as follows.

226,402 for YUL (+3%)
234,426 for YYC (-6%)

These are NavCan numbers.


Don't know for flight attendants, but for pilots, according to this, nothing in YUL. Domiciles only in YYZ, YYC and YVR. Although I remember seeing on the very same page, more choices for pilots, including "home bases" such as YOW. But never YUL.

I don't know. I would hope so. But if we go by the timelines suggested, the LRT should be operational before any new terminal gets built.

Good question. Maybe with all the AC expansion at YUL, this is WS trying to start something, to not block themselves out of the market completely later? Gate space is already an issue at peak departure times. Maybe it was a "now or never" thing. The situation in AB and the YYZ congestion certainly play in our favor, but I would think YUL on a stand alone basis deserves some credit for these routes!

You can only neglect a market of 4 million ppl for so long!

Top Canadian airports by aircraft movements for 2016 (100,000 movements or more)

Source: NavCan

YYZ - 459,144
YVR - 325,975
YYC - 234,426
YUL - 226,402
YDT - 171,741 (Boudary Bay airport)
YBW - 158,018
YOW - 153,347
YHU - 143,974
YEG - 139,088
YYJ - 136,301
YTZ - 125,809
YXX - 124,915
YWG - 116,410
YQB - 116,233
YKF - 110,284
CYPK - 109,333
YFC - 104,130

Interesting breakdown of the big 4.

CYYZ

IFR - 450,828
VFR - 1,144
Local - 1,694
Jet - 372,306
Turboprop - 78,713
Piston - 283

CYVR

IFR - 266,688
VFR - 52,519
Local - 3,014
Jet - 146,097 (less than YYC and YUL)
Turboprop - 143,049 (turboprop capital of Canada !)
Piston - 29,993 (That`s a lot of pistons. Overall, crazy mix of traffic, adding complexity to ATC)

YYC

IFR - 229,213
VFR - 9,960
Local - 944
Jet - 146,346 (more than YVR, less than YUL)
Turboprop - 88,730 (more than YYZ and YUL)
Piston - 4,072

YUL

IFR - 218,827
VFR - 4,597
Local - 1,396
Jet - 149,498 (more than YVR and YYC)
Turboprop - 70,905 (less than YYC)
Piston - 2,998

New Montreal - Tel Aviv flight

http://aircanada.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1110

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That didn't take long. Pretty obvious AC was not going to let TS have all the glory to TLV ! With this flight, it's now a 28% increase for AC this summer over the Atlantic compared to last ! Another "potential 2018 network opportunity" route that comes to fruition. Exciting times for YUL and Montrealers ! :tup:

Interesting they chose the A333 for the route (4764 nm), which are only 230t MTOW. Westbound flights might be payload restricted out of TLV. Early afternoon departure doesn't help. High temps and all.

This is a route where the newer built A333 (240t or 242t frame) would have an advantage.

WestJet new YUL "Hub" annoucement

http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases...613590633.html

Do you have a link for that document? I can't seem to find it.

page 37.

https://www.aircanada.com/content/da...r_day_2015.pdf

Much appreciated!