I just received the following email from YFC for PAL Airlines:

Looks like PAL are taking advantage of AC's big intra-Atlantic retrenchment. First time ever that YFC will be connected to Newfoundland.

PAL is doing well. It has a good base here with MHAs and MPs that need to fly to St. John’s or connect to Ottawa from all the far-flung corners of the province. It’s been a bit too expensive for regular commercial passengers but hopefully that’ll change with scale. I went to college on the West Coast of the island and only flew home once. 45 minutes. Sure beat the hell out of the 12-hour bus ride (including meal stops).

PAL will now have a good presence in New Brunswick.

Moncton to Deer Lake, St. John's, Wabush & Ottawa.
Fredericton to Deer Lake, St. John's, Halifax and Ottawa.

https://www.cohor.org/wp-content/upl...S-WebCohor.pdf

CDG S21 SOS Report:

Air Canada - 988 slots
Air Transat - 540 slots
WestJet - 92 slots

The WS slots match their limited ops last Summer, so maybe they'll only serve YYC-CDG 2x weekly in July & August?

PAL Airlines Expansion
 

More on PAL Airlines. It seems they are picking up most of the regional routes dropped by AC.

In addition to the YFC announcement, YSJ, YQY and YYG have announced flights with PAL Airlines to YHZ. The PAL Airlines schedules also show a YUL-ZBF flight starting in August.

No public announcement highlighting everything from PAL Airlines yet, as the individual airports seem to be breaking the news. The article below also mentions more scheduled flights in Quebec.

https://www.flightglobal.com/network...143211.article

Wow that's quite the expansion. Safe to say that flights to/from YHZ will be timed for connections I would imagine.

I wonder whether PAL will seek out an interline (or even codeshare) agreement with AC? PAL already interline with WS.

What is the difference between an interline versus a codeshare?

PAL is an impressive company for a province as small as ours. It's not up there with Verafin or Hey Orca or Mysa or any of our tech giants, but it's basically global. It, for example, does the security flights for the Dutch Carribean islands, and develops all sorts of aerospace stuff.

They're also one of the many companies helping promote immigration:

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https://onemileatatime.com/interline...oint-ventures/

Here's a detailed breakdown.

I usually equal them to:

Interline = Friends (They can book on each other flights, check baggage through and rebook, a fairly basic relationship)
Codeshare = Dating (They have a stronger relationship, putting their own flight numbers on each others flights, can print boarding passes, may offer FF benefits, they still act as two different airlines etc)
Joint Venture = Marriage (They share money, coordinate scheduling, acts as one unit rather than two)

.......and then there are mergers, which are forced marriages ! ;)

PAL has finally announced it themselves. :haha:

https://i.postimg.cc/qq8HfHrW/170606...35669230-n.jpg

Also, in anticipation that Ottawa and Paris will allow St. Pierre et Miquelon into the Atlantic Bubble, they've launched a Canadian-focussed tourism campaign:

https://www.closerthanyouthink.ca

(They're right under the EL in Madeleine on PAL's map)

It will be high on my bucket list this summer!! Not flying.....but an easy drive for me from Nova Scotia with the Argentia Ferry operating this year. Also an opportunity to spend some time on the Burin and Avalon and in St. John's!

Turkish Airlines is running a radio ad in Vancouver announcing service from YVR "to the rest of the world" starting May 2nd.

In an interline the two airlines have procedures in place to transfer passengers and baggage when a ticket is sold that has flights connections between the two airlines. That includes procedures in place to accommodate passengers on a missed connection. However both airlines set the price for each segment. The airline issuing the ticket then pays each operating airline after the flight based on the breakdown shown on your ticket. One airline is acting as an agent for the other.

In a code share the PAL flight is sold with a WS flight number or vice versa. How much the airlines pay each other is hidden from the consumer. One is acting as a sub-contractor/reseller to the other. This in principle this allows for more complex cost sharing between the two airlines and potentially lower prices as well as bundling of other things such as points for frequently flyer programs etc.

Yes also listed here:

Turkish Airlines to launch non-stop Istanbul-Vancouver flights May 2

British Columbians' long wait for scheduled, non-stop, commercial flights between Vancouver and Turkey is almost over.

Turkish Airlines plans to launch thrice-weekly, direct flights between Istanbul and Vancouver starting May 2, Turkish consul general Taylan Tokmak confirmed to BIV on April 8.

But with the way things are right now, it is still no guarantee. I need to see them here to believe it

Unless they have a pile of cargo contracts lined up, I can’t see why they’d start flying this with less than a month before the first flight. In good times that would produce abysmal initial loads let alone at the height of wave 3. Raise your hand if you’re eager to visit Turkey where there were a record 55,000 cases yesterday?

I think the flight will start. They delayed it close to a year now. In the meantime, they've resumed YUL and YYZ long ago.

YVR-DEL seems bookable on TK website. Might be what they were waiting for to open up the flight.

Very little O&D from Canada to Turkey, the majority of which is from Toronto and Montreal anyways. Even there, that's not their target market. Specifically in the case of YVR, connecting traffic to the Indian sub-continent and Iran will be the main draws. TK draws a significant amount of Tehran traffic out of YYZ as well. (around 20,000 two way per year in 2019). In fact, it's one of their largest intl-intl market pair.

They are pretty big on North America-Tel Aviv as well.

Thank you! That’s a very clear answer! :tup:

Neat video of what flying on Air Canada use to be like back in the 1960s.

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