Canadian Airport Thread - Page 793

Coldrsx · #**15841** Posted **Jun 1, 2023, 5:19 PM**

^nice facility and even nicer equipment.

thenoflyzone · #**15842** Posted **Jun 1, 2023, 8:06 PM**

Not a good start in June for AC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-outage-1.6861923

JakeLRS · #**15843** Posted **Jun 1, 2023, 8:42 PM**

Waterloo International Airport opens new shuttle-service Parking lot!

I can't really see this being super busy in the off-season, but it will be useful this summer!

YKF Parking Prices:

$11/day...Value Parking (shuttle service)
$16/day...Premium Parking (existing lot beside terminal)
$3/30mins...Short-Term Parking

Let's quickly compare it to Hamilton which advertises themselves as a low-cost airport

YHM Parking Prices

$30/day
$150/week
$9/30mins

YKF_Parking2 by freerealms454, on Flickr

YKF_Parking1 by freerealms454, on Flickr

nname · #**15844** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 5:13 AM**

I'm pretty sure the last time I look at YEG-YOW was daily for AC? Looks like now it's reduced to 3x weekly for much of summer and suspended for the winter.

AC is updating W23 schedule again tonight...

thenoflyzone · #**15845** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 6:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Not a good start in June for AC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-outage-1.6861923

AC needs to fix these IT issues.

Inaugural YUL-CPH AC826 was 4 hours late. Inaugural YUL-TLS AC878 was almost 2 hours late. Definitely not a good start. Hopefully YUL-AMS today does better. 64% of AC flights and 59% of Rouge flights were delayed on thursday. That's the second and third highest, respectively, after only Spirit.

https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/yesterday

Dominion301 · #**15846** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 11:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by nname

I'm pretty sure the last time I look at YEG-YOW was daily for AC? Looks like now it's reduced to 3x weekly for much of summer and suspended for the winter.

AC is updating W23 schedule again tonight...

That is correct. It also resulted in F8 reversing their YOW-YEG cut and they will continue all winter at 3x weekly.

hollywoodcory · #**15847** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 3:46 PM**

Double inaugural IAD day at YYC with both WS and UA starting services today with a total of 10 weekly flights between the two cities.

WS also starts YEG-MSP today too.

YYCguys · #**15848** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 3:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

Double inaugural IAD day at YYC with both WS and UA starting services today with a total of 10 weekly flights between the two cities.

WS also starts YEG-MSP today too.

Will there also be a YYC-MSP route?

hollywoodcory · #**15849** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by YYCguys

Will there also be a YYC-MSP route?

Not on WS metal.

Zmonkey · #**15850** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 5:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by YYCguys

Will there also be a YYC-MSP route?

Delta does this daily from YYC. No need to put this on WestJet metal.

casper · #**15851** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zmonkey

Delta does this daily from YYC. No need to put this on WestJet metal.

If you wanted to be on WestJet metal you could connect through Saskatoon. However that would be silly but I am certain it will happen.

Zmonkey · #**15852** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 7:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by casper

If you wanted to be on WestJet metal you could connect through Saskatoon. However that would be silly but I am certain it will happen.

Saskatoon flight is 630AM, these MSP flights are timed to max connections in MSP with no real need for connecting traffic at the Canadian airports.

casper · #**15853** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zmonkey

Saskatoon flight is 630AM, these MSP flights are timed to max connections in MSP with no real need for connecting traffic at the Canadian airports.

That makes sense. When I lived in Saskatoon there was a early morning and a mid-day MSP flight in the Delta and Northwest days. The early morning one was always more usefull.

Surprisingly there was a lot of connecting traffic onto charter flights into Northern Saskatchewan to bring hunters in from the US.

We will see if WestJet has the correct aircraft for that flight. In the Delta and Northwest days most of the year it was a small regional jet most of the year and then around hunting season they would substitute a 757 or A320 on the route. In hunting season you could easily spot the gate for the flight in MSP. A lot of the passengers were wearing high-end designer camo gear.

Zmonkey · #**15854** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 7:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by casper

That makes sense. When I lived in Saskatoon there was a early morning and a mid-day MSP flight in the Delta and Northwest days. The early morning one was always more usefull.

Surprisingly there was a lot of connecting traffic onto charter flights into Northern Saskatchewan to bring hunters in from the US.

We will see if WestJet has the correct aircraft for that flight. In the Delta and Northwest days most of the year it was a small regional jet most of the year and then around hunting season they would substitute a 757 or A320 on the route. In hunting season you could easily spot the gate for the flight in MSP. A lot of the passengers were wearing high-end designer camo gear.

Low risk for WestJet, SK government has a subsidy in place.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9494751/saskatchewan-government-subsidizes-westjet-minneapolis-flight/

hollywoodcory · #**15855** Posted **Jun 2, 2023, 8:16 PM**

Earlier this week WS formally announced YYC-CDG going year-round
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/news/2023/westjet-says-bonjour-to-year-round-service-to-paris-

The schedules were already loaded a few weeks back. 3x weekly.

hehehe · #**15856** Posted **Jun 3, 2023, 4:26 AM**

Now to see what they do with the spare capacity unless 29x weekly is all WS is gonna do with the 787.

msmariner · #**15857** Posted **Jun 3, 2023, 11:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by hehehe

Now to see what they do with the spare capacity unless 29x weekly is all WS is gonna do with the 787.

YYC-PVR, YYC-CUN, YYC-OGG, YYC-HNL, YYC-LHR, YYC-AMS are all previous winter uses. Plus YYC-CDG confirmed for this winter
Possibly YYC-NRT year round as well? Plus daily flights YYC-YYZ.
This is a pretty solid usage. I would assume most go in for maintenance in the low seasons as well

kattiff · #**15858** Posted **Jun 4, 2023, 4:36 PM**

new Winnipeg Airport rumor

WestJet looking at doing Winnipeg to Detroit

Northwest use to do that flight on a weekend in the summer many many many years ago

hehehe · #**15859** Posted **Jun 5, 2023, 2:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by kattiff

new Winnipeg Airport rumor

WestJet looking at doing Winnipeg to Detroit

Northwest use to do that flight on a weekend in the summer many many many years ago

How much money is WAA throwing at WS???

hehehe · #**15860** Posted **Jun 5, 2023, 8:10 AM**

Flair is Canada's worst airline when it comes to passenger complaints, federal data shows

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/flair-worst-airline-complaints-1.6863897

"Ultra low-cost carrier Flair is Canada's worst airline for complaints, with more than 20 per cent of its flights generating some sort of complaint to the Canadian Transport Agency (CTA), new federal data shows.

While gripes about air travel are not unusual, the CTA, the quasi-judicial body that regulates air transportation, found Flair had the dubious distinction of trailing all other major carriers on customer satisfaction in the first quarter of 2023.

In the January-March period, the CTA received 20.9 complaints for every 100 Flair flights. That compares to 10.7 for WestJet and 5.8 for Air Canada.

Lynx, a fledgling Calgary-based carrier, had 5.2 complaints per 100 flights" (which is lower than AC and WS)