Hamilton International Airport

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by TheRitsman

You can definitely solve it without bridges, but they'd need separate arrival areas. I've been to an airport with domestic and international flights with ground boarding and offboarding only.

Perhaps the existing international arrivals facilities are not separate enough, then? Are all arrivals basically handled through the same entry to the terminal, with domestic passengers funneled one way and international passengers another?

Seems like the terminal's limitations are becoming more and more of an issue.

[JakeLRS]

Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

Perhaps the existing international arrivals facilities are not separate enough, then? Are all arrivals basically handled through the same entry to the terminal, with domestic passengers funneled one way and international passengers another?

Seems like the terminal's limitations are becoming more and more of an issue.

Two separate entrances to the arrivals areas. They added a heated tented walkway a few years ago that goes directly to the customs area.

Still boggles me how they can’t allow both intl/dom flights to offload at the same time.

[JakeLRS]

Here is the Winter 23/24 schedule out of YHM.

Westjet bumped YYC service to 5x weekly (up from 4) starting in January.
WS seat capacity is subject to change if they switch from a -700 to an -800 aircraft.
I was holding my breath for YHM-LAS service since WS restored it to small cities out west, but I'm losing hope as we inch closer to the winter.

Lynx's day of ops are different each month, but generally Tuesday and Wednesday are consistent. One extra flight during Christmas season.

YHM_Winter24_FlightSchd_Oct3_rev2 by , on Flickr

YHM_Winter24_FlightDest_Oct3 by , on Flickr

[JakeLRS]

Play decreases YHM-KEF frequency to 5x weekly (no Tuesdays & Thursdays) starting in November. Daily during Christmas Peak.

It's also reduced in January. Daily for the rest of the winter at the moment, but I'd assume it'll also be reduced in February and March.

[HamAviMech]

I heard from a ground handler at EA that they heard Swissport is coming to Hamilton to operate for an airline. I googled Swissport and it shows up as Swissport Cargo being at Hamilton Airport and a phone number but they're not there and haven't been in over 10 years. Also has anyone heard rumors of Spirit Airlines interested in YHM???

[urban_planner]

Originally Posted by HamAviMech

I heard from a ground handler at EA that they heard Swissport is coming to Hamilton to operate for an airline. I googled Swissport and it shows up as Swissport Cargo being at Hamilton Airport and a phone number but they're not there and haven't been in over 10 years. Also has anyone heard rumors of Spirit Airlines interested in YHM???

Spirit and Jetblue are in the process of working on a meger. Jetblue recently started flying to YVR from JFK so who knows. I wouldn't hold my breath with the terminal situation on YHM though. Honestly my expectations for YHM are very low going forward unless a new operator come in.

[LikeHamilton]

Originally Posted by JakeLRS

Play decreases YHM-KEF frequency to 5x weekly (no Tuesdays & Thursdays) starting in November. Daily during Christmas Peak.

It's also reduced in January. Daily for the rest of the winter at the moment, but I'd assume it'll also be reduced in February and March.

That was expected as they have a limited fleet, and they need to do off season heavy maintenance of their aircraft. Right now, there is no plans to reduce after February.

[JakeLRS]

Originally Posted by JakeLRS

Hamilton-Orlando (MCO) - Sundays, Thursdays, Fridays

YHM-MCO service is now extended until May 30th. It will run Sundays and Thursdays in May.

I patiently await their Summer 2024 schedule to see what kind of domestic service we'll get.

[LikeHamilton]

The last domestic SWOOP flight was today. Flight 163 arrived in Hamilton at 20:45 from Halifax.

Saturday October 28 will have the last departing flight with flight 600, departing Hamilton at 13:55 to Cancun and the last arrival will be at 22:55, with flight 601 returning from Cancun.

I will miss SWOOP as I flew them a lot.

[JakeLRS]

I was on their final YHM-YEG flight.

The integration is pretty much seamless. Swoop crew have been undergoing WS training and will continue WS training. Former swoop aircraft will be entering WS service on Monday.

On the flight they had some buy on board products at a clearance rate since WS doesn’t carry them, like Blue Moon Beer for $2. On tomorrow’s flights, some flights will reportedly have champagne for passengers.

A definite loss for YHM, we’ve essentially lost all our year-round domestic service. The last time we didn’t have more than 1 domestic service was in 2015. Since then, we’ve either had Newleaf/Flair or Swoop operating at a domestic capacity year round. It was a good 7 years. I remain hopeful we’ll get some domestic capacity back next summer (2016 levels in my prediction with YVR, YEG, YHZ, YQM). Time will tell.

[JakeLRS]

YHM had about 220,000 passengers fly in between July and August.

Hamilton International experienced an exciting summer, particularly in the months of July and August, when nearly 220,000 passengers travelled through the Airport, which are the highest monthly totals recorded since 2003.

https://mailchi.mp/flyhamilton.ca/th...-november-2023

[Justanothermember]

It will be interesting to see if they replace all the Swoop routes from Hamilton with WestJet flights at some point, assuming the demand is there.

Otherwise, all Hamilton has for domestic year-round service is Calgary......yawn lol

[JakeLRS]

Originally Posted by Justanothermember

It will be interesting to see if they replace all the Swoop routes from Hamilton with WestJet flights at some point, assuming the demand is there.

Otherwise, all Hamilton has for domestic year-round service is Calgary......yawn lol

Pre-Swoop, WS operated YVR, YEG, YHZ, YQM in the summer and then added YWG before they got swooped.

In 2016, WS originally axed service to YEG and YQM stating nobody was using it (see forum pg72), which wasn’t true. When Flair entered the YHM market and picked up those routes, WS backtracked and resumed service within weeks.

Now, I’m optimistic we’ll see some routes return (specifically YEG, YVR, YHZ), but nowhere close to swoop frequency levels. Time will tell.

[Markus83]

Hamilton’s $500M airport district roads plan moves forward amid calls for cost-benefit analysis.
-article from thespec online posted yesterday-

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...c428f070e.html

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Markus83

Hamilton’s $500M airport district roads plan moves forward amid calls for cost-benefit analysis.
-article from thespec online posted yesterday-

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...c428f070e.html

There's a difference between a financial cost-benefit analysis and an economic one. The former may make it look like the city would be penny-wise by not going through with this. The latter may show they're being "pound foolish" unless they do.

If planned well (and this has been in planning for a LONG TIME) maybe everybody will be happy.

[TheHonestMaple]

What exactly is this plan? What are they doing with the roads?

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

What exactly is this plan? What are they doing with the roads?

It's a plan to widen and urbanize all the roads in the employment areas. Book Rd, Dickenson, etc will be widened to 4 lanes and get sewers and curbs, etc.

[Djeffery]

Cargojet news.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ca...BlJmx-OS_rg9tI

[NortheastWind]

Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

What exactly is this plan? What are they doing with the roads?

I found the transportation plan for the AEGD here:

https://engage.hamilton.ca/aegd-tmp?..._feed#tool_tab

[HamAviMech]

Dec 15th there's a ground breaking ceremony in the terminal at 1pm and something outside if the weather is good. It's for a new hangar for Latitude Air Ambulance and I believe it will be built off of Dickenson Rd.