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First Flight Departs August 15th, schedule out till October 31st.

YYZ-YWG - 5x Weekly (M,T,W,T,F) Fares from $185 One Way
YYZ-YQM - 5x Weekly (M,T,W,T,F) Fares from $136 One Way

The cheaper fares were found in September/October. Summer time fares are $200+. I can't tell if carry-ons are permitted.

Wow, six airlines on the YYZ-YWG route.

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Porter Airlines Inc.
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What’s better than 80 new aircraft

Porter is excited to bring even more passengers to new destinations across North America with the confirmation of 20 firm orders of Embraer E195-E2 jets. This is in addition to the existing 30 firm orders we made in 2021, bringing the total number up to 100 aircraft: 50 firm commitments and 50 purchase rights.

The first delivery and entry into service out of Toronto Pearson is scheduled for later this year. More details to come.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/por...td0TJGvw%3D%3D

Pearson? What? The airport that can't manage with the aircrafts it has now.

I prefer flying into Billy Bishop. :(

That $210 million in Covid aid going to Brazil, nice.

But if we a real airline with solid customer service, and interline agreements in place with all the Oneworld members it is worth it.

We just need them to make codeshare deals with BA and Alaska and we have the making of a solid third option. Maybe round the offering with American deal.

Indeed.

I have shared my opinion on this matter numerous times on this forum. Alas, Porter is a private company and they can do as they please.

At the end of the day, $$$$ is always the most important factor, and the E195-E2 is cheaper than the A220-100 or 300. Safe to say that's the main reason why they went with the jungle jet.

They clearly mention YHZ. Well, one destination from YHZ they won't be able to operate - due to their choice of aircraft - is YVR. The E195-E2 range is about 2,600nm, that's not enough for YHZ-YVR, especially in winter.

One of the downsides of going the cheap route. That route is a piece of cake for either A220 version.

But, for 99.9% of their planned routes, the E2 is more than sufficient. Transcontinental out of YYZ, YOW or YUL are doable with that range.

You can hardly call yourself a national airline when you can’t even serve Quebec’s second largest city year-round.

“Significant sun and leisure flying for Eastern Canada” - Translation: for Toronto.

^on that note, why is YQB served by Rouge and not mainline from YYZ?

And everyone else gets SWOOPED

I feel like it's a blood bath with so much extra capacity coming on. There's going to be a casualty, we are basically in a situation of way more carriers than we need and high fuel costs/inflation. Isn't a good recipe. I could see us retrenching into a duopoly+one or two others at some point again

Not too surprising. WestJet winter schedules -in East will benefit Toronto YYZ with more flights consolidating through there and in the West Calgary YYC/Vancouver YVR will benefit from it too!!

"Even though we're cutting convenient and regular flights to your city, get excited for the two new weekly flights to Cancun you can use in December!!"
:uhh: But I guess in today's climate this strategy change was necessary.

Low J demand in YQB vs other eastern cities. Isn't that ideal for a WS product? So I guess they'll be back next summer in YQB, YFC, YYG and YQY with at least a few weekly 737s in those markets seasonally plus maybe the return of YQB-YYC.

In other WestJet news...

More than 700 YVR and YYC WestJet employees could go on strike as early as a week from today. 98% voted in favour of a strike if a deal can't be reached with the company.

Trying to pay your own staff 3rd party vendor wages doesn't cut it. The teal Kool-aid has long since been diluted.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...864257597.html

You can tell WG are aligning themselves for marriage with WS when:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...827101060.html

Speaking of WG, Sunwing are adding a new destination this winter: Cayo Largo, Cuba / CYO, which is on one of Cuba's outer islands. Looking on wikipedia and the airport until now has only had two airlines and two destination, including TS to YUL.

WG will have YOW, YHZ, YQB, YUL and YYZ service this winter for CYO.


https://canadianaviationnews.wordpre...rough-sunwing/

They're resuming CYO, at least from YUL and YYZ.

If you go on wikipedia, hit "history" and go back to a date just before the pandemic, you'll see a longer airline/destination list, which includes Sunwing and a few other European airlines.

My parents go there often. It's a tiny island, with only 7 or 8 small hotels. So not many flights are needed to pack the hotels. The airport can't handle many flights anyways.

I never knew you could do that with Wikipedia. So it looks like YOW, YQB and YHZ are all new destinations.

I have a trip scheduled at the beginning of August. I'm flying with another carrier to Ontario, but I'm supposed to fly from Ontario back to BC (with a layover in Calgary) on WestJet. If this strike goes ahead, I may need to cancel the trip. Even if the pilots aren't striking, customer service and baggage staff on strike will be very problematic.