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Originally Posted by ghYHZ
I checked a CP Timetable from October 1984.....It was a YYZ-YHZ-AMS service, once a week on Mondays. You could fly the ‘747 between YYZ and YHZ but not in the opposite direction (probably due to AMS-YYZ passengers having to clear CDN customs there)
The DC10s and 747 are parked roughly where the US Pre-Clear Terminal is today.
And look closely......this is the Canadian Pacific/Canadien Pacifique livery. Similar but only lasted for a year or so before the airline was sold to Pacific Western and Canadi>n launched.
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I figured as much that the route only worked one day a week and I'm not surprised you couldn't get to Toronto on the same aircraft. That was part of the problem with AC's route from Heathrow stopping in YYT (St. John's) after 9/11. The customs requirements would only allow them to drop off passengers, they couldn't pick up any. So they'd loose about 25 to 40% of the passengers in SJ's, but still had people wanting to go to YHZ. So they'd have to run another flight leaving at virtually the same time but that was domestic only. So you'd never see AC861 on the schedule between YYT and YHZ. I know they did try forcing people to clear customs in YYT a few times. Between YHZ getting angry over the loss of extra revenue to YYT and the fact YYT couldn't cope with so many passengers - they just finally made the route direct.
I knew about Canadian's livery versus Canadian Pacific - but what I was trying to say was it's nice to see the livery (in general) around the airport, since now it's only really AC as the legacy carrier. Once Canadian Pacific became Canadian, it was rare for YHZ to see wide bodies. Up until 1990 they had a morning wide body from YYZ, but after that it was just the 737's and the A320s.
I always thought it would be smart for an airline to build a market to Europe like Canadian Pacific was trying to do, but make the flight direct from YHZ. So they could do like AC - have the aircraft come in from say Montreal or Ottawa but then it would go back out to Amsterdam, Paris or Frankfurt a couple times a week. That way, they could build a market. I know AC did Frankfurt from Halifax twice a week from June 15 to September 28, 1998. It was AC 826 (827 inbound), operated using a 767-200ER, departing at 21:55.