Yes. 100 million if we take into account the top 5 airports. Not bad at all.

According to this site.... Air China wants to begin service Shanghai to Montreal in September 2016 7x a week ! With a Boeing 773 here is the link
http://www.chinaaviationdaily.com/news/49/49789.html

YUL 20 million by 2020? Hummmmmm would love to see that

Would loved to have seen a YUL-YEG-PVG.

Talking about 20M passengers... ;)

Also, that YVR-BNE route has already gone daily. Didn't take long at all.

The flight hasn't even started yet and it's already been bumped up in starting date and expanded from 3x weekly to daily. Talk about an overdue bilateral.

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/12/b...ouver-flights/

I am finding interesting about all of this is YVR is growing across airline and alliance boundaries. The Air Canada increases (combined with their joint venture partners) is really good. However it is not just Star Alliance, there are Skyteam and Oneworld members adding flights to new destinations, including secondary cities in China.

From an airline perspective, I'm curious about why St. John's isn't used more as an intermediate stop to and from Europe. Somewhat like how Vancouver is the hub that so many flights from Eastern Canada (and sometimes the US) stop at before continuing to Asia. Obviously the population is a lot lower, but is Europe's comparative proximity also part of the rationale - that there's no need to stop midway? Simply from a geographic perspective it would seem logical. Sure this is a dumb question, but I'd be interested in the reason!

It isn't far enough north, and it is less of an anchor for flights through origin and destination traffic. If it was 3 million people, it would be different I think.

There isn't a need any longer to stop for fuel before crossing the Atlantic, plus the route north over(-ish) the pole is more direct for the major population centres of Canada than travelling east for hundreds of kilometres, if not more, and operationally there isn't a compelling reason for stopping in a small market like St. John's before heading on to Europe.

YYT should consider itself lucky to have scheduled service to LHR, DUB and soon LGW. Plenty of cities in the States with a population 5 to 10 times larger with no service to Europe.

Adding to the list of Heavies at CYYZ, we had a Hi Fly A343 from Lisbon come in today. First time I've seen it, haven't looked to see if it's a regular schedule or refugee flight.

It was a refugee flight.

5K 671 Amman-Lisbon-Toronto

They most likely stopped in LIS for a crew change.

On a different note, Air China started HAV-YUL-PEK yesterday...and interestingly enough the flight from YUL back to PEK cruised at 32,000 the entire way to China. Cargo hold must have been full of rum and cigars, and also maybe one or two of those antique American cars... ;)

Hahahaha !! Funny

I Have a question.... Thenoflyzone u seem to know ur stuff .. I know Aeroflot has service to Havana from Moscow and now Air China PEK-YUL-HAV ...are those the only Asian airlines serving Havana.?

Aeroflot? Moscow? Asian Airline? :shrug:

Even if some of Aeroflot's home territory is in Asia, it is a stretch to call it an Asian airline and it's service to Moscow from Havana certainly doesn't count as an Asian flight.

As an aside, I looked at the Havana Airport's wikipedia page and noticed that it had direct service to Angola (one of very few airports in North America to have direct service to that part of Africa). It seems kind of peculiar, but apparently Cuba has quite a long history in Angola.

YUL November 2015 stats

1,056,235 +4.4%

Domestic: 450,501 +4.9%
International: 330,124 +3.3%
US: 275,610 +4.7%

YTD 14,303,963

Well considering most of Russia is in Asia ....anyway so Air China is the Only Asian airline serving Havana?

Don't be stupid ...it was a question...i thought it was considered an Asian airline ...most people think when we say Asian we automatically think only Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese etc...MOST of Russia is in ASIA.