Good to see them increasing to Canada, too bad it's on destinations already served though, would be nice to add some new destinations :)

Anyone know the delay in Montreal posting their September stats? All the others have posted already.

http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases...660735553.html

Ukraine International Airlines have officially opened reservations for their new Kiev-Toronto service, effective June 6, 2018.... :)

PS241 KBP1110 – 1435YYZ 767 136
PS242 YYZ2315 – 1605+1KBP 767 136

Three times weekly with 767-300ER.

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...-in-june-2018/

Excellent.

Edmonton-San Francisco
Daily
May 1, 2018
Year-round
Air Canada Express 76
seat CRJ-705/900

What? AC launching a US route out of YEG? That must be a mistake......;)

Hopefully the first of many.

Just about fell out of my chair...

You guys are a riot.

Ive flown through Newark numerous times. Terminal A is a dump. U have to take a bus to move between terminals. If you have to fly during peak hours you're going to be delayed guaranteed!

Lol assumptions much? It has nothing to do with any of that. Simply my opinion based on my experiences.

Montreal East: a new oil terminal could emerge

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/gr...ir-le-jour.php

Big day for Canadian Airports, YVR, YYC, YYZ, YUL and even YEG getting in on the action with new route announcements.

Can't remember a day with so many different airports getting a new route announcement.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrhFJBRCQAIOVp3.jpg
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j...12083094698328

I'd be curious to know how long it's been since YEG had a US destination on AC. Anyone know?

They served YEG-LAS and YEG-LAX until 2009.

Nav Can stats on aircraft movements so far this year. (until October)

YYZ - 390,262
YVR - 283,248
YUL - 197,852
YYC - 195,199
YDT (Boundary Bay) - 156,070
YOW - 126,538
YBW (Springbank) -123,991
YEG - 116,448
YXX (Abbotsford) - 116,421
YTZ - 112,026
YYJ - 107,365
YWG - 102,574
YQB - 101,827
YHU - 100,829

In terms of airports without a control tower, besides Red Deer, Mirabel is now the busiest FSS in the country. So far 48,000 movements this year til October.

Considering the complexity of the mix of traffic (CSeries, helicopters, CRJs, VFR's, F18s, cargo planes), there is a real possibility that a tower could open again in YMX in the near future.

Interesting stats, I hadn't realised that Springbank was as busy as they are. I thought they were more on a par with CYKF.

Just realized Ottawa doesn't have a direct flight to Las Vegas, I am somewhat surprised by that.

I have to go to Vegas for a conference, (not from Ottawa, but will be there for work), and just tried booking and nothing at all in January. Did they ever have it or just lose it?

I think a Las Vegas did exist at some point.

YOW has no direct flights at all to anywhere in the western US. Largely because of Ottawa's role as a mostly government town, YOW has extensive domestic connections (especally Northern--it's actually the primary gateway to reach Nunavut) but weak transborder and international.

The most likely addition to transborder in the coming years, IMO, is not Ottawa-Las Vegas, but probably Ottawa-San Francisco. With the recent resurgence of Ottawa's tech industry it's a likely target, plus there's hard data that the number of people flying YOW-SFO through connecting points is more than sufficient for a direct route. The main issue from what I gather is such a route is very much not in the interests of any of the major airlines because of the changes it would create in connection patterns. That's why some have hypothesized that when Porter gets its C-Series jets, YOW-SFO could be one of the first routes they choose to launch with them.

AC used to operate twice weekly service on YOW-LAS with A319. Service started back in 2007. Westjet did the same around 2010, adding winter seasonal non stop service.

Both services didnt last long, if I remember correctly.

As for YOW-SFO, technically, LAS had a larger O&D in 2016, but not by much. 48,521 vs 46,287.

Wonder how many of the people doing the packages are just driving to Montreal, since it may be easier than connecting.

I am coming for a meetings in the tech space, so was fairly surprised they didn't have anything heading to vegas. A group of 30 of us in our industry are heading out from Ottawa, now just connecting back in Toronto.

I always wondered why Toronto didn't have a flight to Omaha. :rolleyes: