Yup I'd jump on that plane no problem. Especially to Kelowna or even Calgary since AC hasn't reinstated that flight yet.

Looks like Air Canada is reinstating its flight from Castlegar to Calgary mid September some time so great news!

And Central Mountain Air to Vancouver bumps up to daily June 28th the same day Air Canada brings back its flight to Vancouver.

AC paid $10 million in senior executive bonuses while simultaneously begging the federal government for bailout $: https://queenscitizen.ca/2021/06/02/...to-air-canada/

Thoughts on the optics?

Bad. Awful.

1. They laid off thousands of front line employees
2. Asked (begged) for government aid
3. Withheld refunds for customers

There is no way they can spin this positively.

WS was apparently granted approval to operate cargo flights to China last year, and did attempt to gain access to pax flights. I think their issue was the quarantine rules for crew. AC gets around this with a stop in ICN, but WS doesn't have that luxury without adding a second Asian destination making it less desirable.

It's not quite Dr. Dao's removal from United bad, but it's classic Air Canada tone-deaf from the bad days of the AC/Canadian merger.

Of course they'll get away with it because it's not like there's tons of choice in this country right now.

Bombardier land a 1/2 billion contract with the US Air Force: https://queenscitizen.ca/2021/06/03/...llion-dollars/

The also sold 20 Challenger 350s 3 weeks ago to US company Airshare (in French): https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/05/...challenger-350

That's one segment of BBD aerospace - well, the only segment left now - that is doing good.

I wonder what bonuses they gave their front line employees who were constantly exposed to Covid and/or passengers irate over Covid rules?

It will be forgotten about in but a few news cycles if not already.

What's with that Queens Citizen website? From that article. Some kind of translation?

Definitely not “the Queen’s English”. :D

I’ll drop this here. Interesting read.

https://www.eurocontrol.int/publicat...-balance-right

1000km by rail, over flying? Yeah right.

Not in North America, not even in 2050.

If we invest in good trains I don't see why not.

Likely not even in Europe.

Seems like AC will have the last 2 weekly.

AC wanted to fly to PEK, but the Chinese authority does not allow them (hence both direct flight into PEK from CA and HU were cancelled as a result). Then AC is trying to add YUL-ICN-PVG, but slot at PVG is currently very hard to get and AC (along with UA) already have the most out of any other airlines. AC is currently allowed to fly into any other city that's not PEK and PVG.

Given ICN is a skyteam hub you would expect WS would find that attractive being able to have some onward codeshare connections. Also given the competition (AC) is also flying via ICN a one-stop operation is competitive in the market.

I think they were also offered undesirable slots at PVG, and possibly only short-term slots similar to the LHR ones they obtained? I mean if WS really wanted to serve China of course they could have launched something like YYC-ICN-PVG.

1000 km? No. ≤600 km? Sure. A lot of the TOM triangle flights, Corridor feeders into Pearson and CalEd corridor flights could and should be eliminated.