Calgary International Airport III - Page 18

YYCguys · #**341** Posted **May 14, 2024, 12:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Nick

Does Encore have any more aircraft orders? Wikipedia doesn't have anything.

Do they have any tails parked that could be returned to service?

Nick · #**342** Posted **May 14, 2024, 12:08 AM**

I saw a couple at Avmax today, but nothing else at YYC

hehehe · #**343** Posted **May 14, 2024, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by YYCguys

Do they have any tails parked that could be returned to service?

I think Acey referred to parked planes due to a pilot shortage, so probably quite a few?

outoftheice · #**344** Posted **May 14, 2024, 2:59 AM**

Pasco's announcement to employees said about 100 crew members being permanently laid off in YYC as a result of this decision. Encore has about half of their fleet of Q400s currently parked due to insufficient pilots. My guess is Encore is hoping to pick up some of the laid off Pasco crews to allow themselves to re-activate some of their Q400s to cover these routes.

ace.yyc · #**345** Posted **May 14, 2024, 3:10 AM**

I'll count but I'm pretty sure it's nowhere near half currently parked.

Planespotters says 32 of 47 tails are in service with 15 parked, which seems roughly correct.

This looks to me like some combination of:
- WS being confident that they'll be able to glacially bring more Q's back online with the new Encore pilot contract
- The Sunwing merger allowing mainline to be able to take over even more Encore flying to places like YLW/YQU/YMM/YXE/YXR which frees up Encores

Encore currently has a plethora of first officers but captains are getting run into the ground.

casper · #**346** Posted **May 14, 2024, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by outoftheice

Pasco's announcement to employees said about 100 crew members being permanently laid off in YYC as a result of this decision. Encore has about half of their fleet of Q400s currently parked due to insufficient pilots. My guess is Encore is hoping to pick up some of the laid off Pasco crews to allow themselves to re-activate some of their Q400s to cover these routes.

Hopefully some of the Saab get repainted back into Pacific Coastal colours and replace some of the 19 seaters Beechcraft on the coast. As a passenger the Saab is a much nicer ride.

Hopefully the YYC crew end up with WS.

People_talking · #**347** Posted **May 14, 2024, 11:28 AM**

Sucks that the Pasco deal didn't get extended, would've liked to see link expand into Montana/ Idaho, although I suppose it's still possible with Encore.

hollywoodcory · #**348** Posted **May 14, 2024, 9:39 PM**

April 2024 Stats:

Domestic: 904,126 -3.7% [YTD: 3,517,360 +1.46%]
Transborder: 272,829 1.1% [YTD: 1,118,465 +12.73%]
International: 206,618 16.7% [YTD: 811,989 +10.40%]

April 2024 Total: 1,383,573 -0.2%
2024 YTD: 5,447,814 +4.88%

Domestic continues to trend down, well international (esp. non US) continues to trend up.

Calfan12 · #**349** Posted **May 17, 2024, 6:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

April 2024 Stats:

Domestic: 904,126 -3.7% [YTD: 3,517,360 +1.46%]
Transborder: 272,829 1.1% [YTD: 1,118,465 +12.73%]
International: 206,618 16.7% [YTD: 811,989 +10.40%]

April 2024 Total: 1,383,573 -0.2%
2024 YTD: 5,447,814 +4.88%

Domestic continues to trend down, well international (esp. non US) continues to trend up.

That's great!

WestJet Calgary YYC - Seoul Incheon (ICN), South Korea 1st inaugural flight for S24 season is today Friday May 17 2024 and operated by Boeing 787-9 and 3x weekly service.

It's also the 1st time (since end of 2019 when Air Canada previously operated to Tokyo Narita, (NRT) Japan & Hainan Airlines to Beijing Capital (PEK),China) that YYC has had 2 flights ✈️to Asia on the same day.

As WestJet YYC - Tokyo Narita NRT, Japan operates as well on Friday May 17.

hollywoodcory · #**350** Posted **May 18, 2024, 7:46 PM**

After a busy week of seasonal startups, another week of resumptions/launches is coming up:

Monday: WS IAD / DE FRA
Thursday: WK ZRH

The remaining seasonal resumptions/launches:
May 28: PD YUL
June 5: AA ORD
June 8: AA CLT
June 10: WS YXY
June 20: WS YFC
June 27: UA IAD/LAX
June 29: WS YQB/YQG

ace.yyc · #**351** Posted **May 19, 2024, 6:38 AM**

Really low pax on tonight's Deer Lake but it seems like an extra or something? It doesn't run on subsequent Saturdays I'm pretty sure.

hollywoodcory · #**352** Posted **May 19, 2024, 5:50 PM**

YDF's normal op days are Fridays and Sundays until the end of June. Not sure why they added the extra segment last night.

hehehe · #**353** Posted **May 20, 2024, 12:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by ace.yyc

Really low pax on tonight's Deer Lake but it seems like an extra or something? It doesn't run on subsequent Saturdays I'm pretty sure.

For some reason that Saturday flight has been loaded since YDF was first announced and is the only Saturday flight for the entire season.

hollywoodcory · #**354** Posted **May 21, 2024, 3:33 PM**

As expected, WS has announced YYC-TQO for this coming winter.

Effective November 9:
WS2320 YYC 08:55 - 15:40 TQO 737 6
WS2321 TQO 14:45 - 18:56 YYC 737 6

Calfan12 · #**355** Posted **May 22, 2024, 4:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

As expected, WS has announced YYC-TQO for this coming winter.

Effective November 9:
WS2320 YYC 08:55 - 15:40 TQO 737 6
WS2321 TQO 14:45 - 18:56 YYC 737 6

That’s great!

ace.yyc · #**356** Posted **May 23, 2024, 4:11 PM**

First Thursday of the full Europe op. Edelweiss, Condor, 2x Discover, DUB, LHR x2, BCN, CDG, FCO, AMS.

I recall saying all it takes is one of the earlier Europes to go late for us to be screwed... so on the first flight of the season Edelweiss is 2 hours late. We don't have enough gates tonight for this to go smoothly. We'll see how it plays out.

Tobuz · #**357** Posted **May 23, 2024, 8:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by ace.yyc

First Thursday of the full Europe op. Edelweiss, Condor, 2x Discover, DUB, LHR x2, BCN, CDG, FCO, AMS.

I recall saying all it takes is one of the earlier Europes to go late for us to be screwed... so on the first flight of the season Edelweiss is 2 hours late. We don't have enough gates tonight for this to go smoothly. We'll see how it plays out.

Yikes. And the new international terminal building hasn't even reached it's 8th birthday yet.

Lack of foresight, bad design, or a bit of both?

msmariner · #**358** Posted **May 23, 2024, 11:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by ace.yyc

First Thursday of the full Europe op. Edelweiss, Condor, 2x Discover, DUB, LHR x2, BCN, CDG, FCO, AMS.

I recall saying all it takes is one of the earlier Europes to go late for us to be screwed... so on the first flight of the season Edelweiss is 2 hours late. We don't have enough gates tonight for this to go smoothly. We'll see how it plays out.

Can’t they put one of the flights in C gates? It’s not like the passengers need to be isolated.

hollywoodcory · #**359** Posted **May 24, 2024, 12:04 AM**

https://aviationweek.com/air-transpo...port-authority

This article mentions that YYC is pursing additional Transborder destinations and specifically mentioned PHL, MSY and BWI as targets.

Of those 3, I’m guessing PHL is the most likeliest. I believe WS has already attempted MSY previously.

Tobuz · #**360** Posted **May 24, 2024, 3:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by msmariner

Can’t they put one of the flights in C gates? It’s not like the passengers need to be isolated.

Not really, no. Those aircraft all come in with international passengers, which means they would need to be offloaded at the international terminal first, fully emptied (ie nobody including groomers working on board), then towed to a domestic C gate, brought in to the gate by a ground crew, etc.

That takes a lot of time - preventing an on-time turnaround of the aircraft. And it costs a lot of money.