YEG - Edmonton Int Airport - Page 223

Rocket252 · #**4441** Posted **Jan 6, 2010, 8:22 PM**

United Changes into YEG - Summer 2010

Denver – Edmonton 3 Daily E70 + 1 Daily CR7 (All E70 during peak Summer 09)

San Francisco – Edmonton 2 Daily CR7 (3 in 2009)

Jasper and one o nin · #**4442** Posted **Jan 6, 2010, 9:14 PM**

Nm

Mercucio · #**4443** Posted **Jan 6, 2010, 9:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jasper and one o nin

I was curious how YEG compared to airports in the US.
Based on similar PAX numbers and similar city population, I found the following on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United_States

Anchorage 2,599,000 (5.2 million passengers)
Tucson 2,177,000 (4.4 million passengers)
Oakland 7,144,107 (11.5 million passengers)
Sacremento 5,382,000 (10.4 million passengers)
Indianapolis 4,097,398 (8.1 million passengers)
New Orleans 3,770,246 (7.9 million passengers)
KC 5,833,064 (10.5 million passengers)
St Louis 7,130,180 (14.4 million passengers)
Albequerque 3,176,299 (6.5 million passengers)
Raleigh 4,706,587 (9.7 million passengers)
Cleveland 5,447,482 (11.1 million passengers)
Columbus 3,336,994 (6.7 million passengers)
Oklahoma City 1,799,977 (3.7 million passengers)
Portland OR 6,956,712 (14.7 million passengers)
Pittsburg 4,946,256 (8.7 million passengers)
Memphis 5,508,235 (10.5 million passengers)
Nashville 4,779,474 (10 million passengers)
Austin 3,945,020 (9 million passengers)
San Antonio 3,915,428 (8.4 million passengers)

Here's the total passengers perspective. All stats 2008. Of these airports, only Anchorage, Tuscon, Albequerque and Oklahoma City have catchment areas smaller than Edmonton.

CMD UW · #**4444** Posted **Jan 7, 2010, 6:16 AM**

Albequerque has some impressive PAX numbers given how small of a market NM is.

dansk · #**4445** Posted **Jan 7, 2010, 3:45 PM**

If you going to ABQ you'll notice they are a tourist draw because of the mountains, Anchourage the same.

tuffyy · #**4446** Posted **Jan 8, 2010, 7:16 AM**

You will also notice Anchorage has huge cargo numbers as the bulk of the traffic is freighters but not a whole lot of long haul international passenger flights.

Rocket252 · #**4447** Posted **Jan 9, 2010, 9:57 PM**

WestJet from May 1 2010 is to operate Boeing 737-600 on the Edmonton – Los Angeles service, replacing -700, which was also operated during 2009 Summer.
Service in Summer will be operating 4 times a week.

More downsizing of service for YEG.

dansk · #**4448** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 4:01 PM**

YEG-LAX on AC downsized to 4x weekly as well. Not a surprise as the loads were soft from the report I saw last month.

lubicon · #**4449** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by dansk

YEG-LAX on AC downsized to 4x weekly as well. Not a surprise as the loads were soft from the report I saw last month.

Do you know the schedule? Are they going head to head with Westjet or will their flights run on the days Westjet doesn't?

dansk · #**4450** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 5:08 PM**

think they're doing Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon runs. Again soft loads last year didn't help.

lubicon · #**4451** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 6:36 PM**

Swithcing gears and maybe going a little OT here, but I have a question regarding Fedex in Edmonton.

I send stuff all the time from our office in Calgary to the one in Nisku. Up until Christmas the label that was generated for these shipments (the one that goes on the package itself) was always 'YEG' but since Christmas it is 'YXD'. What's up with that?

Jasper and one o nin · #**4452** Posted **Jan 16, 2010, 12:12 PM**

not the best pics, but some shots of the expansion

Airboy · #**4453** Posted **Jan 16, 2010, 4:53 PM**

Allot of steel up already

CMD UW · #**4454** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 1:35 AM**

Yea, I saw that a few weeks ago...

rapid_business · #**4455** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 4:11 AM**

so has anyone heard about longterm (or short term) plans to revamp the departures and arrivals lanes, etc. at the airport. It is actually quite embarrassing how bad the traffic management is there. YOW nailed it with their latest expansion in so many ways (traffic lanes and terminal), but it seems like we are going to be stuck with this hick town vehicle traffic management for some time...

Coldrsx · #**4456** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 5:15 PM**

^concur in full... during busier times they both are terrible. Mind you arrivals at YVR is brutal.

CMD UW · #**4457** Posted **Jan 17, 2010, 6:25 PM**

^Thats a good question. I wonder what the traffic management plan is for YEG given that the new terminal will increase capacity.

Coldrsx · #**4458** Posted **Jan 25, 2010, 5:00 PM**

dear god US departures is a zoo at 6am...

5-6 flights leaving within 2hrs.

unreal

Rocket252 · #**4459** Posted **Jan 25, 2010, 5:24 PM**

^ and with the new security measures in place it is even worse now. We were waiting in line 2 hours before even getting to the security checkpoint for our flight to LA recently

Coldrsx · #**4460** Posted **Jan 25, 2010, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rocket252

^ and with the new security measures in place it is even worse now. We were waiting in line 2 hours before even getting to the security checkpoint for our flight to LA recently

yup...

we saw many people being turned back for whatever reason and having to restart.

the temporary bridge maze is not too bad and the new structure is pretty impressive thus far.

both flights on United Express were 95-100% full