My first thought was the BAC 1-11 too. Those were so loud. And then to throw into the list, Concorde. They could make a Motörhead concert sound quiet. I can remember hearing the distinctive roar of her engines as they flew over my house at 50,000ft.

^^^ Sounds like Vancouver is rumoured to be the first city in North America to have a direct flight to Shenzen. By next year YVR will be directly connected to 9 out of China's 10 largest cities! The YVR thread has all the details sorry I don't know how to post a thread from there to here.

^^^ Well copy/paste works:

YVR-Beijing "check" Air Canada, Air China
YVR-Shanghai "check" Air Canada, China Eastern
YVR-Guangzhou "check" China Southern
YVR-Chongqing MISSING [new T3 being built, set to open late 2016. look for announcement close to then]
YVR-Tianjin "H1 2016" Hainan Airlines
YVR-Shenyang "check" Sichuan Airlines
YVR-Chengdu "check" Sichuan Airlines
YVR-Kunming "check" China Eastern
YVR-Shenzhen "H2 2016" TBD
YVR-Xiamen "Approved" Xiamen Airlines

Credit to Hot Rod in the YVR thread

Oh to hear those Rolls Royce Tynes again spooling up on a Vanguard.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuzLS35IzVc

Jump to 4:30 of the video and that’s only 2 of 4 engines running. The Vanguard was a transcontinental workhorse for Trans Canada Airlines/Air Canada.

Oh yes we've got a mountain at each end of the runway so its quite a thrilling ride. And gorgeous!

Oh yeah, I'll bet the BAC 1-11s were wicked. (As far as I know, its engines has no bypass air.) -35/40C days would have enhanced the noise level at that! :tup:

Back in the day, Regina would have two/three AC DC-8-61s/day to YYZ. Anyhow, those DC-8s would shake the southern 1/3 of Regina on the threshold during throttle-up facing towards the northwest. (About a 3.8 on the Richter Scale, direct line-of-sight, 1.25 miles away from our house.) Moreover, one could EASILY hear F-27s start/taxi/ground ops when it was -35 across built-up areas 2-3 miles away! ( . . maybe even farther over open fields.)

Of course, during the summer, things weren't as loud.

The grandaddy was when an Air France Concorde came here in May '87; now, THAT was loud! :yes:

You guys don't know the definition of loud unless you've been near an old RCAF Argus anti submarine aircraft on approach or take-off. :frog:

They used to have a squadron stationed at CFB Summerside PEI when I was growing up. They would occasionally practice touch and go landings at the Charlottetown Airport, and on approach would fly over the downtown at several hundred feet in altitude. Those engines produced a deep mighty roar that shook windows in their frames and you could actually feel the vibration in your chest as they flew overhead. It's one of the unforgettable memories of my childhood.

http://www.415sqn.com/aircraft/Argus/argusS.jpg

Yeah, no doubt! In 2010, a Lancaster stopped in Regina for fuel. When it took-off and flew over my head, it sure was something! I can only imagine what 100-200 of them sounded like together during a sortie. :)

Tunisair will start flying to YUL starting Spring 2016, according to the airline's North American GM.

Will it be year round? Daily?

Maybe 3 weekly, year-round.

This is a list of essentially Heavies (and 757s) that regularly fly into Toronto Pearson. I've included a couple of Mediums as well just as an indication of the foreign carrier, whilst excluding anything from the US airlines. I've not attempted to match each aircraft to their destinations, or frequencies, as there are too many variables. I've included Transaero as they were flying in until very recently.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/...ps98iqrx3d.jpg

Regardless, that's very impressive.

Yes it would be very difficult to nail the frequencies because of, like you say, the variables of seasonal changes. Maybe just pick a week in peak summer, say early August, and see what you come up with! If you accept this mission..... I wouldn't know where to start. I reckon Air Canada and rouge would be hard enough... LOL

Resource based traffic
 

With the slowdown in the resources industry I've noticed a lot of pull back on flights to the North. I don't follow Central or Eastern Canada that much but in Western Canada clearly putting a damper on air traffic.

Examples are Canadian North flying fewer frequencies, First Air has transferred flights to the smaller Avro jets flown by Summit Air, Westjet reduced frequencies to both YZF and YXY and now the latest Air North cutting flights in some cases 50%. Even little CMA has reduced some flights to the North.

As we have seen YMM in particular is just getting smashed with huge declines in traffic. I'd be surprised if AC maintains three daily and WS maintains its daily flight to YMM from YVR next summer.

So is the same thing happening between Central Canada and the North?

Montreal has daily First Air 737 flights to Kuujjuaq, which continue 3 times per week to Iqualuit.

Ottawa has a daily flight to Iqualuit.

That's pretty much all we have in terms of flights to the North.

There is also an Air North Flight from Ottawa to Whitehorse, stopping in Yellowknife, two times per week.

Trans-Atlantic flight from Whitehorse seems to be doing fine :D

Yours is so much prettier than mine, I might have to steal the idea! :cheers:

That's amazing, I wonder if it will be the first non Asian city to have links to all 10?

Just flew back from Beijing Monday PEK-YVR-YYZ. Boeing 773 and the flight was packed, even if the service on Air China leaves a bit to be desired.

I've been wondering when they would be pushing ahead with their plans from years ago for the next phase of expansion.

I'm guessing this expansion is the one shown in Klazu's photo below.

YVR very well may be the first yes. Bit of a race with SYD and MEL down under perhaps as they both have a growing list of direct flights to the secondary Chinese cities. Seems like more being announced all the time.

Thanks for the heads up re Air China... We are doing the MEL-PEK-YVR-PEK-MEL route over Xmas with decent layovers in both directions. Been 5 years since I've been on CA but willing to give it another go! Only doing it because they have added MEL-PEK non stop. All flights to PEK used to stop in PVG and that added quite a few hours to the total journey. Given up flying AC since they have added the metal requirement and being downunder makes that almost impossible to obtain now so NZ is my preferred carrier and having recently flown UA nonstop MEL-LAX I would do that again over AC SYD-YVR. Let me just check my vital signs... Yup I'm normal! LOL

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Thanks for the feedback re: Central Canada - North. Are these routes growing, maintaining or shrinking.....like I was saying they are definitely shrinking out West.