Calgary International Airport III

[lotto649]

Growing up I remember the arrivals and departures on Calgary cable TV.

I recall it was yellow backgrounds / blue background depending on arrivals or departures.

Then at some point (early 90s?) the FIDS moved to black background with alternating yellow/white/green text.

Anyone happen to have a photo of either?

[hollywoodcory]

WS appears to be adding MSP for S25.

Effective April 27:
WS1611 YYC 10:30 - 14:12 MSP 737 D
WS1610 MSP 15:15 - 17:12 YYC 737 D

Not something I was expecting to see, especially loaded this far ahead.

[hehehe]

Looks like there's a new set of cancellations for the strike notice by the Westjet mechanics. It's becoming a bit of a circus now...third time in just over a year even if excluding the Encore situation.

[ace.yyc]

Interesting that UA is using YYC to rotate a plane.

YYC-IAD so far has been a 737 that does a DEN-YYC-IAD routing, but IAD-YYC is an A320 going the other way doing IAD-YYC-DEN.

[Tobuz]

There are aome odd and really confusing changes to the connector hall linking the main terminal with the D (formerly International) concourse.

Going from the C to D concourse … the signage was always really bad, and hasn’t been improved. (Small signs for “D” and “E” are posted at right-angles to oncoming walkers — so they’re not visible until you walk almost right up to the drywall that appears to be a dead end to the hallway.)

The change: now when you go from C to D, you’re funneled into a narrow, one-way, windowless, signless hall that puts you out at the exit from D gate security, right before the “D” duty free shop.

And going from the D concourse back to C (or to domestic baggage claim), you now stop at a manned desk before entering a door (formerly a boarding gate, it appears) at D70. Once you tell her where you’re going, she sends you down the hall … a former boarding passage which spits you out via one of the abandoned boarding gates in the connector concourse. You exit behind the old/mothballed check-in counter for what was one of the C70 gates. (It's just weird. The gate counter and terminals and signs are all still there -- it's like exiting through some abandoned 'ghost town' of a gate.) And like "C to D", this path from "D to C" is also one-way only.

For something as simple as walking between the D gates and the A/B/C gates, the whole thing seems waaaaay over-engineered, too complicated, and just poorly signed. Two different hallways, neither all that intuitive, one guarded by a YYC agent before entering, and all with a lack of effective wayfinding.

For a major domestic<>international connection process at a pretty big airport, wow, it’s a pretty bad UX.

There must be a reason, though. It wouldn’t make sense to go through this much “complication” without a purpose.

Are they changing D back to being a sterile international concourse now? (And I f not, then why these weird changes?)

[Zmonkey]

Originally Posted by Tobuz

There are aome odd and really confusing changes to the connector hall linking the main terminal with the D (formerly International) concourse.

Going from the C to D concourse … the signage was always really bad, and hasn’t been improved. (Small signs for “D” and “E” are posted at right-angles to oncoming walkers — so they’re not visible until you walk almost right up to the drywall that appears to be a dead end to the hallway.)

The change: now when you go from C to D, you’re funneled into a narrow, one-way, windowless, signless hall that puts you out at the exit from D gate security, right before the “D” duty free shop.

And going from the D concourse back to C (or to domestic baggage claim), you now stop at a manned desk before entering a door (formerly a boarding gate, it appears) at D70. Once you tell her where you’re going, she sends you down the hall … a former boarding passage which spits you out via one of the abandoned boarding gates in the connector concourse. You exit behind the old/mothballed check-in counter for what was one of the C70 gates). Like "C to D", this path from "D to C" is also one-way only.

For something as simple as walking between the D gates and the A/B/C gates, the whole thing seems waaaaay over-engineered, too complicated, and just poorly signed. Two different hallways, neither all that intuitive, one guarded by a YYC agent before entering, and all with a lack of effective wayfinding.

For a major domestic<>international connection process at a pretty big airport, wow, it’s a pretty bad UX.

There must be a reason, though. It wouldn’t make sense to go through this much “complication” without a purpose.

Are they changing D back to being a sterile international concourse now? (And I f not, then why these weird changes?)

I went from the C gates to the D gates a few weeks ago and saw the change. I just figured it was to get you to walk through duty free.

The way back makes zero sense.

That area just needs a be connected since sterile zone is likely never coming back.

[hollywoodcory]

WS is adding additional flights in the fall:

NRT - daily until the end of October
ICN - 4x weekly last 2 weeks of October (Sat out / Sun in added)
ATL - 3rd flight added on Sundays.
BOS - Extended to end of October (1x weekly on Sat).

[hehehe]

Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS is adding additional flights in the fall:

NRT - daily until the end of October
ICN - 4x weekly last 2 weeks of October (Sat out / Sun in added)
ATL - 3rd flight added on Sundays.
BOS - Extended to end of October (1x weekly on Sat).

Entering the TPAC market seems to have been a big success for WS. And to think just a few years ago it seemed virtually impossible that WS would ever launch Asia.