Here's YOW's July pax stats.

Sector / Jul-20 / Jul-21 / % Change
Dom: 42,675 / 116,171 / +172.2% - for context Jan-May was 117,426
TB: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
Int'l: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
TTL: 42,675 / 116,171 / +172.2%

Sector / YTD 2020 / YTD 2021 / % Change
Dom: 815,802 / 278,434 / -65.9%
TB: 163,093 / 0 / -100.0%
Int'l: 168,382 / 0 / -100.0%
TTL: 1,147,277 / 278,434 / -75.7%

If July's upward trend holds, YOW might end 2020 over 1 million pax. Will need to avg ~144.3k pax monthly the rest of the year. That should be easily reached in August with an average of 30 departures/day now. Should continue to increase with Porter returning in September, transborder service in October and international sun routes in November/December.

12 Months Rolling / % Change vs Year End 2019
Dom: 494,669 / -87.6%
TB: 0 / -100.0%
Int'l: 0 / -100.0%
TTL: 494,669 / -90.3%

The meaningful indicator these days
Month-Over-Month Change
Sector / Jun-21 / Jul-21 / % Change
Dom: 44,837 / 116,171 / +159.1%
TB: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
Int'l: 0 / 0 / #DIV/0!
TTL: 44,837 / 116,171 / +159.1%
Avg/Day: 1,495 / 3,747 / +150.7%

Refugees are going into Pierson.

Apparently about a 1000 so far. This will be steady according to the Gov until NATO shuts down operations.

YXE July

https://www.cjwwradio.com/2021/08/17/127934/

The stat that matters the most to me this year is yearly PAX numbers being higher than 2020.

That would be very telling about how far along cities and regions are in their recovery.

I think most airports in Canada will end 2021 below 2020 as January, February and the first 1/2 of March 2020 were 'normal' months. Take YOW for example. It would have to average 244,000 pax per month in the final 5 months of the year to finish at the same pax count as 2020. That's probably not realistic given that YOW only surpassed 100,000 pax in a month for the first time since March 2020 in July. While I expect August at YOW could flirt with 200,000 pax, even with Porter coming back in September, UA in October and international sun flights in November, I just can't see 244,000/month happening. The same would be true for YUL and YYZ, just proportionally higher.

There was a small plane crash at YQT on Monday evening. The pilot, the lone occupant, perished.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thund...osed-1.6143338

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thund...rash-1.6145508

I also expect the next few months to be stronger with international passengers allowed next month.

While 2020 had 2 1/2 normal months, 2021 should finish with the strongest months post March 2020.

For S22, AC plan to change routing for MXP service, effective May 22

Current:
AC 894 YYZ-MXP, 4x weekly

New:
AC 894 YYZ-YUL-MXP, 5x weekly 330


I thought AC no longer do one-stop services?

WS appears to be planning to resume YYC-SNA this winter with up to 2-3x weekly service. Currently only filed in the OAG, and not bookable.

It currently looks like Air Canada plans to use the Boeing 777 between Calgary and Frankfurt Germany (again) starting end of March 2022 for next years Spring/Summer season.

It currently looks like WestJet planning to resume (seasonal) Winnipeg to Phoenix Sky Harbor, US flights 2x weekly Mondays and Fridays starting November 1.While Swoop Airlines (seasonal) Winnipeg - Phoenix Mesa is 1x weekly in November on Mondays and 2x weekly starting December 10 operating Mondays and Fridays too. It operates to end of April.

Winnipeg - Las Vegas,US flights on WestJet resumes November 4 operating 2x weekly Sundays and Thursdays.

*Although it’s subject to change*.

Yes,it’s becoming a trend for Airlines ✈️ to combine alot flight routes together more and more theses days! With the pandemic and travel demand still isn’t the greatest, not too surprising. Example:since Winter 2020 KLM 679 Amsterdam,Netherlands - Edmonton,Canada flights are combined (with a stopover in Calgary 1st).

AC didn't operate YUL-MXP pre-pandemic though. Maybe it's a way to get more passengers for the MXP flight, as they were already scaling it down two summers ago.

On the other hand, AC just recently got rid of the YYZ tags on YYZ-YVR-SYD, YYZ-YYC-NRT, and YYZ-YUL-GVA...

September 7 British Airways resumes London UK and Vancouver flights. From Sept 7-25 there will be 2 daily flights BA 84/85 and 86/87 using the Boeing 777 and it now looks like BA has pushed back the A350-1000 for Vancouver to March 2022.

It’s also the same day Air Canada resumes AC 850/851 3x weekly flights ✈️ between Calgary and London,UK from Western Canada too!

Looks like WestJet has extended Calgary-San Francisco,US to year round now? Originally it was Spring/Summer seasonal flights✈️.

This Winter they’re keeping it around operating Sundays and Thursdays only.

Interesting development.

MXP is a business destination. AC was banking on that when they started YYZ-MXP back in 2014. It was initially supposed to operate year round, but the route struggled during the winter (suggesting lack of support from the business community), and became summer seasonal only. Year round service was reinstated in 2018 i believe.

Now that business traffic has all but disappeared, maybe this is AC's way to try and draw on whatever leisure traffic there is from both YYZ and YUL to make the route work. If there is decent cargo demand on the route, helping make ends meet, it might be a good strategy. And, yes, AC was indeed moving away from one-stop services. That being said, if a route is struggling, I guess all options are on the table before canceling it outright. I'll try and find out more about this from my contacts.

^ So after further digging, it's basically what I said.

Milan struggles in winter. With the YYZ-YUL combo, this is AC's attempt at making the route work year round. YYZ-MXP wasn't capturing the business traffic that originated in YUL, because of the backtrack. This routing might help with that. If it doesn't work, they'll go back to summer seasonal YYZ-MXP.

Speaking of, remember when AC flew some sort of EZE-SCL or EZE-GRU fifth freedom route? I think they dropped EZE now. I guess another example.

That was done on purpose, as EZE is a lower yielding destination compared to SCL and GRU.

They tried the non stop to EZE a few years back but quickly brought back the tag-on service. Yields were garbage on the non stop.

Flair have re-added BUR to the route map and added YEG to the list of transborder gateways with service to BUR (in addition to YVR), LAS, AZA and PSP.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8128669/e...-flair-routes/

They have indeed, along with SNA-YYC coming back: https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...880156438.html

A York Region Police drone struck a Cessna (172?) on approach to Buttonville earlier this month damaging the Cessna.

https://www.cp24.com/news/plane-dama...nada-1.5554610

Even the police can't follow Transport Canada's drone operation regulations.

Disregard the politics in this article, but here's a peek at the Liberal and Conservative AC Jetz decal jobs:

https://www.cp24.com/polopoly_fs/1.5..._620/image.jpg

https://www.cp24.com/news/liberals-h...ests-1.5558077

Not surprising that AC hasn't yet painted any of the Jetz 319 fleet into the new livery.

Air Canada has basically given up in YYC extending the Transborder cuts through November. Are they really only going to serve PHX and Hawaii this winter?

Meanwhile at WS, they’ll have up to 60 weekly flights to the US by October, possibly going over 70 by November.

Ironically AC and WS will virtually the same amount of Europe service come September.

Looks like there's a very real possibility that WS at YYC goes back to normal by January.

Good news for Calgary,Canada as WestJet flights ✈️ helps Alberta tourism sector and economy alot usually!

Not too surprising, as Air Canada US/International flights ✈️ Passengers demand is mainly Vancouver,Toronto and Montreal. AC Calgary-Europe must be more profitable for them over the US,currently.

Also WestJet is adding more US flights from their Calgary Hub in Alberta is not too surprisingly either,as recently a Calgary Herald news article mention that they plan to resume more destinations from Calgary faster 1st compared to other cities in Canada.

https://calgaryherald.com/business/v...hin-six-months

Great! Also the Simpleflying news article mentions WestJet’s plans for California this upcoming winter too.

https://simpleflying.com/westjet-california-return/

Anything past mid October 2021 is likely to change for WestJet schedule wise.

Also a good example of it Air Canada has now pushed back the resume dates to most US nonstop flights out of Calgary Airport (YYC). The only 1 AC still operating currently for Alberta is between YYC and Phoenix.

United Airlines (UA) has now pushed back the Edmonton to Denver and Houston US,flights✈️ to February 2022.

Hawaii has now asked tourists to stay home (if)their trips are Non Essential - won’t be surprising if AC and WestJet will cut back on Hawaii,USflights ✈️this winter too!

https://globalnews.ca/news/8136003/c...-travel-risky/

YYZ has introduced an online shopping portal for anyone in Ontario called The Shops at Pearson: https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...835848515.html

For now, UA are now showing YOW-IAD as returning on 31OCT21. This is about 3 weeks later than earlier planned with 1x CRJ. YOW-ORD is now pushed back from late October to 16DEC21 showing 3x CRJ from the get-go...seems a little far-fetched to be starting at 3x. YOW-IAD also shows as suddenly jumping to 3x on 16DEC21 (and from 1x CRJ to 1x ERJ & 2x E70 no less), which seems to indicate the schedule is only non-dummy to 15DEC21.

This article has a pic of the damage to the Cessna: https://skiesmag.com/news/police-dro...trike-airport/

https://assets.skiesmag.com/wp-conte...one-aug-20.jpg

It looks like KLM 2x weekly flights ✈️between Edmonton and Amsterdam Netherlands circle routing with Calgary YYC ,has been extended to End of March 2022 for this upcoming Winter season too.1 of is reversed going AMS-YEG-YYC-AMS on KLM 673 operates Saturdays starting Dec.11. While the KLM 679 AMS-YYC-YEG-AMS remains the same operating Thursdays.

UA's schedule has only been modified until mid-December. For YYC it shows SFO / ORD and IAH resuming December 16th at 2-3x daily. I assuming they're holding off updating the Christmas break schedule until closer to, to see what demand is like.

Saskatchewan pax numbers: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...41#post9376241

Not too surprising that Saskatoon and Regina,Saskatchewan Canada airport’s passenger numbers dropped, due to the Pandemic. All Airport’s had a drop in passenger traffic too around the World in 2020!

From January- June 2021 in Western Canada, Calgary International Airport YYC handled a total of 1,387,968 passengers and were a little more busier than Vancouver. https://www.yyc.com/Portals/0/MEDIA/...r_paxtotal.pdf

While Vancouver International Airport handled a total of 1,339,069 from January-June https://www.yvr.ca/-/media/yvr/docum...passengers.pdf

Could you correct your source pls. I"ll use it on wiki. I had the -69% from the YXE 2020 annual report, but didn't have the exact pax count.

Does that make Calgary the second busiest airport in Canada for 2021 so far? Or is Montreal currently ahead of Calgary?

Lack of US, Asian - especially to China - and Australian flights are really hurting YVR's numbers.

As for YYC, their domestic hub strength is evident. Over 90% of their passenger count is domestic. Which means they are more shielded compared to YVR or YUL when international borders close. Hence explaining the easy overtake of both.

Will be interesting to see if YYC can hold this lead and take 2nd place at the end of 2021. I don't think it will. With international flights opening up, YVR should overtake fairly quickly. YUL as well, but might take more time.

2021 will likely finish with the same ranking as 2020 : YYZ in first, YVR second, YYC third and YUL fourth. 2022 should see YUL back in third, if we don’t get a 5th, 6th and 7th wave of this fucking virus that is.

Impressive stuff by YYC nevertheless ! :cheers:

Yes it does, for now.
YUL, with 911,817 passengers January to June, is well below YYC's and YVR's overall numbers, but well above both in terms of international passengers. Like I said above, with international borders opening up, YVR should be able to overtake YYC soon enough. YUL might take some time to catch up to YYC's overall numbers as well, but it should happen eventually, once all is right with the world.......;)

International passenger numbers January-June 2021:

YUL: 413,625
YVR: 271,025
YYC: 128,384

not sure how this will affect Canada, they do fly to Toronto, but surprising to see them shut down.

Alitalia Is Shutting Down With All Future Flights Canceled Starting October 15

https://www.afar.com/magazine/alital...-on-october-15

It's not that surprising. They were shopping for a buyer a couple years before the pandemic began, and had losses for most of the decade prior to that point. The Italian government taking ownership was meant to be a stop-gap to allow purchase negotiations to continue but Alitalia doesn't have much worth buying.

Lots of passengers but they weren't able to compete with discount airlines HQ'd in other parts of Europe. Lufthansa, Air France, and Easyjet can comfortably take-over Alitalia routes/traffic without needing to buy the airline itself.

Not surprising at all. They’ve been a mess for years.

Oops. Here you go: https://globalnews.ca/news/8140813/s...enger-traffic/

I think that means YYC is definitely 2nd busiest as here is to June for YYZ that I posted a couple of weeks ago:

Three months / Six months (in millions)

Sector/ 2021 Q2 / 2020 Q2 / # Change / % Change / 2021 YTD / 2020 YTD / # Change / % Change
Domestic / 0.6 / 0.3 / 0.3 / +93.8% / 1.2 / 3.5 / (2.3) / (65.3%)
International / 0.4 / 0.2 / 0.2 / +93.9% / 0.9 / 6.6 / (5.7) / (86.4%)
Total / 1.0 / 0.5 / 0.5 / +93.8% / 2.1 / 10.1 / (12.2) / (79.1%)

That's only about 800k behind YYZ.

Canada puts a ban on flights from Morocco, same way it did for flights from India back in April. Ban starts midnight tonight and runs until Sept 29, for now.

Needless to say, this will affect mostly YUL, as it has several daily flights to CMN everyday on AT and AC.

Is something happening in Morocco that I'm not aware of? We are starting a survey for a mining company there soon, and the equipment was detained by CBSA to review whether it required export permits (it didn't as it turns out). Now they're stopping flights from Morocco?

https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-c...r-29-2021.html

Due to COVID.