Canadian Airport Thread II

[Dominion301]

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Started compiling it all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...in_Canada#2025

See https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...postcount=4071 for YQR, which was 1,159,639 = +7.1% - source: an email from them.

YQM 2025: 656,246 = -0.8% (source: YQM's quarterly e-newsletter)

YQT 2025: 777,284 = +7.0% (source: YQT's Facebook page)

YAM 2025 (I know you don't normally go this small on the wiki page): 153,202 = -0.2% - source: https://saultairport.com/news/2026/s...senger-levels/ - with YAM getting back an extra daily DH4 to YYZ on AC and starting to see some service with Bearskin's 'new' DH1 on loan from sister company Perimeter, I imagine YAM will get back closer to 180K pax for 2026.

[hollywoodcory]

WS appears to be adding 3 new domestic destinations YAM, YYB and YBL for S26
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/flights/direct-flights

All show from YYC.

Also YEG-YXT.

[Zmonkey]

Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS appears to be adding 3 new domestic destinations YAM, YYB and YBL for S26
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/flights/direct-flights

All show from YYC.

Also YEG-YXT.

Isnt Lloydminister suppose to come back as there updates are being completed this year?

[q12]

Air Canada Suspending Cuba Service in Response to Aviation Fuel Shortage

Airline will operate empty flights to Cuba to pick up and return customers

MONTRÉAL, Feb. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Air Canada said that effective today it is suspending its service to Cuba due to an ongoing shortage of aviation fuel on the island. Over the following days, the airline will operate empty flights southbound to pick up approximately 3,000 customers already at destination and return them home.

Air Canada took the decision following advisories issued by governments (NOTAMs) regarding the unreliability of the aviation fuel supply at Cuban airports. It is projected that as of February 10 aviation fuel will not be commercially available at the island’s airports. For remaining flights, Air Canada will tanker in extra fuel and make a technical stops as necessary to refuel on the return journey if necessary.

Air Canada will continue to monitor the situation to determine an appropriate restart of normal service to Cuba at a future date.

Customers

Air Canada’s immediate priority is to return customers already in Cuba to Canada. It will operate empty ferry flights to the island over the coming days to maintain its regular schedule from Cuba to Canada over the near-term to pick up these customers. Air Canada currently has approximately 3,000 customers in Cuba, most of whom are travelling on Air Canada Vacations Packages.

Throughout the process, Air Canada and Air Canada Vacations monitored the situation closely, first introducing a flexible rebooking policy for customers travelling to Cuba. Air Canada Vacations is now introducing a refund policy, allowing customers who had scheduled departures to Cuba and experienced flight cancellations to automatically receive a full refund in their original form of payment. There is no need for these customers to contact the Air Canada Vacations’ Contact Centre.

Customers currently in Cuba who booked an Air Canada Vacations package can receive direct support from Air Canada Vacations’ local representatives, who are available to address any questions or concerns.

Air Canada Cuba Schedule

Air Canada operates on average 16 weekly flights to four destinations in Cuba from Toronto and Montreal. These include:

From Toronto:

4 times weekly to Jardines del Rey Airport in Cayo Coco,
2 times weekly to Frank País Airport in Holguín,
4 times weekly to Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport in Varadero,
Once weekly to Abel Santamaría Airport in Santa Clara.

From Montreal:

3 times weekly to Jardines del Rey Airport in Cayo Coco,
2 times weekly to Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport in Varadero.
At present, seasonal flights to Holguín and Santa Clara are cancelled for the rest of the season. Flights to Varadero and Cayo Coco are schedule to operate yearround but are currently suspended with a tentative restart, pending review, on May 1. All Flights are normally operated on various narrow body aircraft between Mainline and Rouge. Air Canada will look to redeploy these aircraft to other destinations.

https://www.aircanada.com/media/air-...fuel-shortage/

[someone123]

There is some significant probability that this will be it for Cuba's government. I wouldn't want to go there right now. It is too bad that Cubans have to go through all these hardships. Apparently something like 10% of all Cubans left in the last few years.

[Dominion301]

Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS appears to be adding 3 new domestic destinations YAM, YYB and YBL for S26
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/flights/direct-flights

All show from YYC.

Also YEG-YXT.

With the addition of YYC-YAM, that should take YAM back to around 200K pax.

I also see weekly YQQ-YYZ and YWG-YYT flights. I don't recall those being announced previously.

Crazy though that they'll have zero nonstop service from YVR on the 2nd and 3rd busiest ex-YVR transcon routes (i.e., YUL & YOW) and ditto for YWG-YUL. I'm sure 18 months from now they'll announce all those routes as "new" for the 4th or 5th time lol.

[thenoflyzone]

Originally Posted by Dominion301

See https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...postcount=4071 for YQR, which was 1,159,639 = +7.1% - source: an email from them.

YQM 2025: 656,246 = -0.8% (source: YQM's quarterly e-newsletter)

YQT 2025: 777,284 = +7.0% (source: YQT's Facebook page)

YAM 2025 (I know you don't normally go this small on the wiki page): 153,202 = -0.2% - source: https://saultairport.com/news/2026/s...senger-levels/ - with YAM getting back an extra daily DH4 to YYZ on AC and starting to see some service with Bearskin's 'new' DH1 on loan from sister company Perimeter, I imagine YAM will get back closer to 180K pax for 2026.

Can't post YQR and YQM numbers until a public source with the exact figure comes out. Not sure wiki accepts facebook posts as an acceptable source either. Either way, YAM doesn't make the cut. The list only goes down to #27 or so, and airports around there handle ~300,000 passengers. I'm not all that interested in starting to compile even smaller airports than that. It's enough work as it is.

[Dominion301]

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Can't post YQR and YQM numbers until a public source with the exact figure comes out. Not sure wiki accepts facebook posts as an acceptable source either. Either way, YAM doesn't make the cut. The list only goes down to #27 or so, and airports around there handle ~300,000 passengers. I'm not all that interested in starting to compile even smaller airports than that. It's enough work as it is.

Fair enough for YQR. Technically I get YHZ's numbers monthly the same way but they will add anyone that wants to be on their distribution list.

In the case of YQM, the newsletter I found also posted on their website: https://app.cyberimpact.com/newslett...atvhZVd8W5Nw~~

For YQT, I found the exact count for 2024 in their annual report of 728,077 = +2.0% vs 2023. Now with the exact 2024 number, 2025's growth is actually exactly 6.8% and not the 7% they quoted.

For 2025, here's the link to the screenshot on YQT's FB page in case that helps:

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS appears to be adding 3 new domestic destinations YAM, YYB and YBL for S26
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/flights/direct-flights

All show from YYC.

Also YEG-YXT.

YXT Added because of the LNG phase 2 going ahead.

[peytol]

YYZ-YQQ Has been around for a few years maybe 2021 or 22? It hasn't increased beyond once a week though.

Looks like YYC-YVR is now upto 35x a day in the summer, 19x WJ, 11X AC and 5x flair. Wild amount of capacity. I previously said it was a no brainer for porter to hop into YYC-YVR, not so sure about that now.

[Zmonkey]

Originally Posted by peytol

YYZ-YQQ Has been around for a few years maybe 2021 or 22? It hasn't increased beyond once a week though.

Looks like YYC-YVR is now upto 35x a day in the summer, 19x WJ, 11X AC and 5x flair. Wild amount of capacity. I previously said it was a no brainer for porter to hop into YYC-YVR, not so sure about that now.

Are you including Abbotsford?
YXX-YYC has up to 8 dailies over summer.
5 WestJet
3 Flair

Is there any Margin left for Porter? Fares are cheap, there is connections on both ends right now, and basically hourly flights.

Whats the pull for Porter on these 1 hour flights?

[hollywoodcory]

Seems WS is also suspending South bound flying to Cuba as well.

Originally Posted by Airboy

YXT Added because of the LNG phase 2 going ahead.

Also see YYC-YXT increased from 5 to 8x weekly as well.

[peytol]

Has Phase 2 had an FID? Cedar LNG is underway, but did they even add this many flights for LNG Canada phase one?

For YYC-YVR I just counted a Friday in July off google flights. So total of 43X a day Calgary to Vancouver is crazy.

[ColDayMan]

So I don't see a "Canadian Airlines" thread but I do have a question: I'm flying from Toronto to Lisbon via Air Transat in May and I've never take that airline before. Thoughts? Is it in the Air Canada-class or more of a ULCC?

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

So I don't see a "Canadian Airlines" thread but I do have a question: I'm flying from Toronto to Lisbon via Air Transat in May and I've never take that airline before. Thoughts? Is it in the Air Canada-class or more of a ULCC?

It is a "vacation airline" like Thomas Cook was. It is not quite a ULCC.

[MonctonRad]

So, YQM (Moncton) will be losing 5x weekly flights to Cuba (Holguin, Varadero and Cayo Coco) because of the aviation fuel crisis down there.

That's half of the airport's winter destination travel out the window right there.

There are still flights to the Dominican, to Jamaica and to Mexico from YQM, but half the capacity is gone.

[casper]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

So I don't see a "Canadian Airlines" thread but I do have a question: I'm flying from Toronto to Lisbon via Air Transat in May and I've never take that airline before. Thoughts? Is it in the Air Canada-class or more of a ULCC?

It is somewhere between Air Canada or ULCC.

Tourist oriented airline. Their bread and butter is taking Canadians to/from vacation destinations. Many of the passangers on the flight would have purchased a package that includes air and hotel.

Very small business class cabin at the front (especially in comparison to Air Canada). The business class seats will be ok but nothing like Air Canada international business. More like a domestic business (called first in the US).

Economy is probably going to a bit tighter than Air Canada but not as bad as a ULCC.

There will probably be lots of families on the flight. Especially if we are talking Lisbon.

Meal service will be similar to Air Canada. Better than a ULCC. You will get a choice of complimentary hot meal with a house wine.

Baggage will be similar to Air Canada. That said the very cheapest option on both does not include a checked bag. Normal carry on bags as the major airlines.

Air Transat has been around for decades. They are very reputable. They have been going to Portugal for a few decades. Lisbon is a regular almost daily destination for them. Porto and Faro are maybe once or twice a week.

If your connecting their interline/codeshare partners are Porter, WestJet and Turkish airlines. More limited number of partners than say Air Canada. So if your on the same ticket with one of those everything is checked through just like the legacy airlines. ULCC don't do interline/codeshare.

[egb]

Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

WS appears to be adding 3 new domestic destinations YAM, YYB and YBL for S26
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/flights/direct-flights

All show from YYC.

Also YEG-YXT.

For those that know airline schedules, is there a way to sort out how much they increased their summer domestic frequency for YHZ? Saskatoon and Regina are up to twice a week from weekly but I can’t sort out how much they’re increased YVR, YEG, YYC, and YWG.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by casper

It is somewhere between Air Canada or ULCC.

Tourist oriented airline. Their bread and butter is taking Canadians to/from vacation destinations. Many of the passangers on the flight would have purchased a package that includes air and hotel.

Very small business class cabin at the front (especially in comparison to Air Canada). The business class seats will be ok but nothing like Air Canada international business. More like a domestic business (called first in the US).

Economy is probably going to a bit tighter than Air Canada but not as bad as a ULCC.

There will probably be lots of families on the flight. Especially if we are talking Lisbon.

Meal service will be similar to Air Canada. Better than a ULCC. You will get a choice of complimentary hot meal with a house wine.

Baggage will be similar to Air Canada. That said the very cheapest option on both does not include a checked bag. Normal carry on bags as the major airlines.

Air Transat has been around for decades. They are very reputable. They have been going to Portugal for a few decades. Lisbon is a regular almost daily destination for them. Porto and Faro are maybe once or twice a week.

If your connecting their interline/codeshare partners are Porter, WestJet and Turkish airlines. More limited number of partners than say Air Canada. So if your on the same ticket with one of those everything is checked through just like the legacy airlines. ULCC don't do interline/codeshare.

I have to disagree wrt the food. It was inedible the last time I flew Air Transat and I would recommend bringing your own food on board.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I have to disagree wrt the food. It was inedible the last time I flew Air Transat and I would recommend bringing your own food on board.

He didn't say anything about whether the food was edible of not. He just said it was "equivalent to Air Canada."