Canadian Airport Thread II - Page 178

Dominion301 · #**3541** Posted **Oct 25, 2025, 11:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Guess they had to pay for those wage settlements somehow...

Air Canada laying off hundreds of staff as it slims operations
Irish Mae Silvestre
Oct 24 2025, 7:22 am

Air Canada announced that a round of layoffs will affect about one per cent of its staff as the airline looks to slim down its operations.

According to its corporate profile, as of 2023, Air Canada employed around 90,900 people across the country. An airline representative confirmed news of the layoffs in an email statement to Daily Hive...

https://dailyhive.com/canada/air-canada-layoffs-2025

That's a really sloppy article. They're also about 50,000 too high for AC's employment numbers.

casper · #**3542** Posted **Oct 25, 2025, 11:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dominion301

That's a really sloppy article. They're also about 50,000 too high for AC's employment numbers.

Other news outlets are saying the layoffs are 400 management positions.

Traffic to the US is down, the economy in the US is slowing. Exactly how that impacts Canada is to be determined.

They may also be able to benefit from AI and other automation to reduce staffing.

hollywoodcory · #**3543** Posted **Oct 27, 2025, 5:21 PM**

WS has extended GDL/MZT to year-round. This brings them to 6 year-round destinations in Mexico.

MZT has been served in the summer before, but GDL must be doing well if they've already extended it out before it even launches.

Dominion301 · #**3544** Posted **Oct 28, 2025, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS has extended GDL/MZT to year-round. This brings them to 6 year-round destinations in Mexico.

MZT has been served in the summer before, but GDL must be doing well if they've already extended it out before it even launches.

Looks like YWG-CUN and YYZ-POP were also extended to year-round.

Dominion301 · #**3545** Posted **Oct 28, 2025, 5:02 PM**

F8 summer 2026 route additions:

YQM-YYZ 3x weekly ops days 135 from 15MAY26 to 23OCT26
YUL-YVR 6x weekly ops X3 from 16APR26 to 17JUN26 & 14SEP26 to 24OCT26 and daily in between those dates

And it looks like YYT-YYZ is coming back too but nothing is bookable yet on their website.

MonctonRad · #**3546** Posted **Oct 28, 2025, 5:43 PM**

YQM will now be served by seven airlines (Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, PAL, Flair, SunWing and Air Transat). That's not too bad.

Dominion301 · #**3547** Posted **Oct 28, 2025, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

YQM will now be served by seven airlines (Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, PAL, Flair, SunWing and Air Transat). That's not too bad.

Six as Sunwing the airline no longer exists. Sunwing the tour operator still exists who now in-turn charter WS aircraft. Like Swoop, some aircraft are still painted in the Sunwing livery.

thenoflyzone · #**3548** Posted **Oct 29, 2025, 1:47 PM**

Looks like OS is keeping the B763 on YUL for a bit longer.

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/251028-osns26lh

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Vienna – Montreal eff 29MAR26 767-300ER service maintained, replacing initially filed 787-9

Still early days for S26, but LH/4Y with some changes to YYZ/YUL/YHZ.

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/251028-lh4yns26inc

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Frankfurt – Montreal eff 01JUN26 Seasonal service scheduled with 6 weekly 787-9, instead of 1 daily 787-9 from 01MAY26

Munich – Montreal 30MAY26 – 12JUN26 Reduce from 7 to 6 weekly, A350-900

Munich – Toronto
eff 30MAR26 Service operates 5 weeks earlier than initially planned, 5 weekly (Previous: eff 01MAY26)
01MAY26 – 22MAY26 Reduce from 7 to 5 weekly

Frankfurt – Halifax eff 02MAY26 Increase from 4 to 6 weekly, A330-200/-300 (5 weekly from 01OCT26)

Dominion301 · #**3549** Posted **Oct 29, 2025, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dominion301

Looks like YWG-CUN and YYZ-POP were also extended to year-round.

All these year-round route extensions are 1x weekly over the summer months: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/251028-wsns26int

This will give YWG year-round international pax counts again for the first time in years.

Dominion301 · #**3550** Posted **Oct 30, 2025, 6:38 PM**

Looks TS are banking on their recently inked codeshare agreement with TK paying off as they're going to be increasing YYZ-IST next summer from 2x to 3x weekly.

They're also going to be increasing YYZ-LIM and YYZ-BER by 1x/wk each to 3x weekly and YUL is gaining a new route - a weekly summer seasonal YUL-AGA route commencing 12JUN26.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/ai...estinations-from-montreal-814477855.html

thenoflyzone · #**3551** Posted **Oct 30, 2025, 7:36 PM**

Speaking of TS, based on CTA filings yesterday and today, expect TS codeshares (most likely on TK) to Lebanon, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to be announced soon.

https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/decisions?f%5B0%5D=field_mode%253A1345&

IRT_BMT_IND · #**3552** Posted **Oct 30, 2025, 8:45 PM**

Did not read original quotes post carefully, didn't realize the CTA filing was about codeshares.

hollywoodcory · #**3553** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 3:54 PM**

Someone updated the YYC wiki page to add a bunch of new non-exisiting routes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations

AC/DL to SEA and WS to Everett/Bellingham. Someone seems to think there is a ton of demand for Washington state.

The only one of those I could possibly see being true is WS to DFW.

(And yes I know anyone can edit Wiki pages).

Rhb · #**3554** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 5:01 PM**

Ishrion aviation is reporting that Connect Airlines will fly from YKF to various North American destinations using a crj200.

https://bsky.app/profile/ishrionaviation.bsky.social

MountainView · #**3555** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

Someone updated the YYC wiki page to add a bunch of new non-exisiting routes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations

AC/DL to SEA and WS to Everett/Bellingham. Someone seems to think there is a ton of demand for Washington state.

The only one of those I could possibly see being true is WS to DFW.

(And yes I know anyone can edit Wiki pages).

YYC-YFB Iqaluit! Imagine!

VancityAvgeek33 · #**3556** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 8:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dominion301

Looks TS are banking on their recently inked codeshare agreement with TK paying off as they're going to be increasing YYZ-IST next summer from 2x to 3x weekly.

They're also going to be increasing YYZ-LIM and YYZ-BER by 1x/wk each to 3x weekly and YUL is gaining a new route - a weekly summer seasonal YUL-AGA route commencing 12JUN26.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/ai...estinations-from-montreal-814477855.html

I wonder if TK will reduce there toronto flights with TS adding YYZ so they could add a couple more flights to vancouver or montreal?

hollywoodcory · #**3557** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 9:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by MountainView

YYC-YFB Iqaluit! Imagine!

WS to YFB is actually more believable than AC re-adding SEA.

Maybe I'll go add DXB just to be messy.

hehehe · #**3558** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 11:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS to YFB is actually more believable than AC re-adding SEA.

Maybe I'll go add DXB just to be messy.

Remember when even the Calgary Herald posted an article about WS and Dubai....and everyone thought WS was launching DXB?

msmariner · #**3559** Posted **Nov 1, 2025, 8:34 PM**

Some news about Flair’s past
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/bo...d-to-buy-dozens-of-boeing-737s-fbi-says/

YYCguys · #**3560** Posted **Nov 1, 2025, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by msmariner

Some news about Flair’s past
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/bo...d-to-buy-dozens-of-boeing-737s-fbi-says/

What does this mean for Flair’s future?