Canadian Airport Thread II

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Originally Posted by RomanR27

Depending when they open their YVR base, I wouldn't be surprised to see them run those from YVR either.

Perhaps way down the road. The YVR base (as per: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/po...ottawa-montreal-vancouver-883631684.html) is supposed to open in October with a staff of about 100. With a staff that size, initially I bet the YVR crew will be mostly flying YYZ/YOW/YUL-YVR with the odd non-YVR pairing thrown in there like YOW/YUL-YYZ as part of a RON.

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Not quite yet. They're almost there though. These routes, especially out of YYZ, make sense. YOW/YUL-LAS have the demand as well.

The next round of route announcements will be fun to watch though.

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On another note, look like Azores airlines is increasing service to YUL to year round. Pleasantly surprised to see this. One of the benefits of having A321neos it seems.

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240801-s4nw24pdl

Personally, I think there's still a whole pile of stuff PD can sensibly add before hitting a wall, be it year-round or seasonally over the next 5 years. Here's all the stuff I think seems reasonable (keep in mind not everything here would be daily & some could be as little as weekly winter seasonal on Saturdays):
-More frequency on some existing routes as they mature
-YYZ/YOW-YQR
-YOW-YXE
-YOW/YYZ-YLW
-YOW-YYJ
-YOW/YYZ-YDF
-YYZ-YQX/YYG/YQM/YFC/YSJ/YQT (1x daily early am departures would eat up a lot of the E95's underutilized slack as a lot of YYZ RONs currently leave around 0930-1030)
-YOW-LAX/SFO/PHX
-YOW/YUL-PBI/MIA
-YOW/YYZ/YUL-SRQ
-YUL-YWG
-YOW/YYZ to future airline partner hubs - both E95s & DH4s (an AA codeshare for PD only makes too much sense)
-YOW/YUL/YYZ/YHZ-CUN/VRA/PUJ/NAS/pick your sun destination
-YHU-YHZ/YYZ/YWG/YEG/YYC/YVR/YQM/YFC/YTZ (the latter three on DH4s)

DH4s:
-Increasing YTZ-YQG/YSB/YTS/YQB back up to 2x-3x daily each like they were pre-pandemic & YUL/YOW-YTZ from 8x to 9x.
-YOW-YHM/YKF/YXU/MDW (2x daily each)
-YOW-YQB/YQG/YSJ/YSB/YAM/YTS (1x daily each)
-YHZ-YQX/YQY
-YUL-YHM/YKF/YXU (1x daily each to feed the TS evening bank)


PD did say they've identified 9 potential YHU routes at the time of the terminal announcement, so I've listed 9 above. Only other ones that make sense are YYG, YYT and maybe a DH4 or two to YQB - but their future Pascan partnership would be better for the latter. I suppose YHU-YOW could also make sense to feed transborder/international at YOW as a compliment to YYZ...and maybe price local seats at under $500 one-way to actually generate a bit of O&D, lol.

While there's currently 3 DH4 tails of slack, all the suggested DH4 flying above would require probably around 6 additional tails. PD have said they're looking at acquiring more Dash 8s.