Exactly my point.

No one is denying Chinese tourism is on the rise. That's not the point i was making.

I understand your point as it is correct.

You were comparing Chinese with Argentina or African airports.

However, I do not think you comprehend the reality of the Chinese market. Even though you do not like the actual percentages of passengers to the market. It is not really relevant.

The fact that China is the world’s largest generator of outbound travel since 2012 and growing means more, than the percentage to population argument.

If you want percentages you should look at the growth of the Chinese airlines passenger traffic from the year 2000 to 2016.

Beijing Capital International Airport 2000 passenger traffic 21,691,077

Beijing Capital International Airport 2016 passenger traffic 94,393,414

The sheer volume with or without percentages is awesome

Tallest civilian ATC towers in the world - while YYC's ATC tower is the tallest in Canada it only rates 40th in this world wide list, link. There are some real beasts on that list. YYC rates 18th tallest in North America.

I've contributed to that website. Added or corrected a half dozen or so airports, including several Canadian ones.

That list doesn't include Vancouver Harbour tower, which at 446ft is technically the tallest in the world.

You should contact the owner if the list and let him know. Maybe the issue is that the rest of the building is not dedicated to airport activities but by all means, contact the owner of that list. Possibly it's not included because there are no hard surface runways, dunno.

I just read on flyertalk that come October 29th, YYZ-DUB is being returned to mainline service from Rouge. It is currently scheduled to use an A330-300.

YVR April 2017:

1,853,067 +12.7%

Year-To-Date:

7,204,862 +8.4%

http://www.yvr.ca/en/about-yvr/facts-and-stats

http://aviationweek.com/awincommerci...-beirut-flight

Flair Airlines buys NewLeaf travel company
B.C. based airline buys upstart discount travel company
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/newl...ines-1.4149722

Flair Airlines has bought NewLeaf Travel Company, a discount flight seller that made headlines last year for offering flights between Canadian centres at rock bottom prices.

Kelowna, B.C.-based Flair said in a release Wednesday that it has bought NewLeaf Travel Company's assets, including its "marketing, selling and distribution engine."

The two companies have been linked since NewLeaf launched last summer, offering flights for as little as $59 one way between Canadian cities such as Abbotsford, Halifax, Edmonton, Hamilton and Winnipeg.

The company has completed more than 2,200 such flights and moved more than a quarter of a million passengers in the process.

Although it marketed itself as an airline, NewLeaf was in fact just a ticket seller, while Flair Airlines owns the planes and operates the flights.

Flair says passengers shouldn't expect any disruption as a result of the transaction.

"Expansion is planned for new destinations beginning this year, plus the fall and winter domestic schedule will be released shortly," Flair said in a release.

BIG increase for YUL

April 2017

1 452 936 +17.3%

Domesitc 535 841 +13.2%
International 565 955 +25.7%
Transborder 351 140 +11.5%

YTD 5 542 466 +8.8%



wow! looking good for YUL and summer ain't here yet!

Guess that adding more direct flights really helps!

quite a few increases as well... curious to know how many connect through YUL. This is great news tho! if we continue like this we will definitely pass the 18 million mark by the end of this year

Yeah who knew investing in Montreal and its main international gateway would pay off?

I guess that ADM will need to build its second terminal faster... The current capacity of YUL is 20M pax.

It's certainly interesting that every airport managed to get huge growth in the month of April, especially in the domestic sector (so these are not international connecting passengers, but rather, Canada O&D)...

April Total:
YUL +17.3%
YVR +12.7%
YEG +12.4%
YYZ +12.1%
YYC +8.3%
YOW +6.2%

April Domestic:
YEG +14.8%
YUL +13.2%
YVR +10.3%
YOW +7.8%
YYZ +6.4%
YYC +5.7%


4 of the 6 busiest airport have over 12% growth for April? What's going on here...

Sounds like the laptop ban may be extended to 71 airports by the US including some domestic flights.

Weird. I would be surprised if Canada was not in the mix as well.

Without preclearance for sure.

Yet more reason to avoid transiting through the US if possible.

The whole laptop thing is beyond stupid.. instead of focusing on what passengers are carrying, we need to start examining the passengers themselves, like what the Israelis do. It's way more effective.

Of course they can be international connecting passengers !

Ex. YOW-YUL-LHR.

The passenger who does this is counted as 1 domestic passenger and 1 international passenger. It has nothing to do with the O&D between YOW and YUL.