YEG - Edmonton Int Airport - Page 331

Policy Wonk · #**6601** Posted **Feb 29, 2012, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by LO 044

Where is Martinair, KLM, BA, etc. They could have also flown a few flights per week to YEG. I too am paying more to fly LHR-YEG this summer. The YEG-LHR flights are expensive.

The plight for YEG is the same as most Canadian airports - the cost of operating here is catastrophically high. And if you are a European airline with an A330 kicking around you can realize a better yield putting on a blindfold and throwing a dart at a map of India than flying to Canada.

The cost issue makes operating flights to secondary Canadian markets a poor business proposition relative to deploying the same aircraft and crew almost anywhere else. Part of this is an airport issue and part of it is a federal issue.

The only way to overcome this impossible barrier to entry is extremely high yields and flightly tourists and immigrants visiting family are not high yielding passengers.

NAVCAN, The National Airports Policy and their hellspawn airport authorities, need to be dismantled with extreme prejudice. Until that occurs and the costs that spiraled out of control as a result are brought under control the prognosis is poor.

LO 044 · #**6602** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 4:32 PM**

^I don't disagree with you. I just want to make a point that AC usually gets the brunt of the blame for lack of flights at YEG due to their hub model via YVR, YYC, YUL and YYZ. I just don't think that WS is that different and the gap between them gets smaller and smaller. AC hubs us through YYC to get to Frankfurt and WS hubs us through YYC to get to Amsterdam. How many flights does Air Transat offer YYC to Europe in the summer relative to YEG? Same story.

Coldrsx · #**6603** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 4:38 PM**

What a mess at YEG yesterday due to the fog...

dansk · #**6604** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 5:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by LO 044

^I don't disagree with you. I just want to make a point that AC usually gets the brunt of the blame for lack of flights at YEG due to their hub model via YVR, YYC, YUL and YYZ. I just don't think that WS is that different and the gap between them gets smaller and smaller. AC hubs us through YYC to get to Frankfurt and WS hubs us through YYC to get to Amsterdam. How many flights does Air Transat offer YYC to Europe in the summer relative to YEG? Same story.

You're hit it right on. I'm just so bloody frustrated that we can't attract something more here in Edmonton.

240glt · #**6605** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 5:26 PM**

So we may be heading back to Mexico in a few weeks, a friend owes me a couple weeks in his condo in old town PV.... I won't be hitching a ride on a charter flight again preferrably I'd like to get myself to a southern US desitnation then hop an AeroMexico flight to PV.

I am flexible as to when I can arrive, so does anyone have any idea what the cheapest and/ or easiest way to get there would be ?

ExcaliburKid · #**6606** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by 240glt

So we may be heading back to Mexico in a few weeks, a friend owes me a couple weeks in his condo in old town PV.... I won't be hitching a ride on a charter flight again preferrably I'd like to get myself to a southern US desitnation then hop an AeroMexico flight to PV.

I am flexible as to when I can arrive, so does anyone have any idea what the cheapest and/ or easiest way to get there would be ?

We have had good connections through Phoenix in the past. My folks swear by Houston though, pretty well all their connections when they vacation in Central America, they go through Houston and love it.

240glt · #**6607** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 5:37 PM**

I've heard Houston is a good connection point too. Checking westjet, I can get back from Houston via LAX for under $400, but the website does not show any departing flights from YEG. Odd.

Hallsy's Toupee · #**6608** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 5:46 PM**

^ Just don't connect in Calgary!

240glt · #**6609** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 9:57 PM**

I'd fly to hell & back before touching down in YYC

Of couse if I did that I'd have been to Calgary already

Bigtime · #**6610** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by 240glt

I'd fly to hell & back before touching down in YYC

Of couse if I did that I'd have been to Calgary already

Sorry I couldn't hear you over the announcements about KLM going daily and Air Canada's Narita service going year round.

PS: Yes I'm aware the LH is gone.

LO 044 · #**6611** Posted **Mar 1, 2012, 10:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

Sorry I couldn't hear you over the announcements about KLM going daily

Courtesy of Lufthansa and WestJet. Nothing more, nothing less.

240glt · #**6612** Posted **Mar 2, 2012, 12:34 AM**

Appologies if this has been posted, but I don't remember seeing it

Edmonton International Airport

Passenger Statistics for January 2012

Highlights

¨ Overall 532,549 passengers (532,549 Year to Date)

¨ Domestic 377,652 passengers (377,652 Year to Date)

¨ Transborder 103,784 passengers (103,784 Year to Date)

¨ International 51,113 passengers (51,113 Year to Date)

- Rolling 12 Month 6,319,739

Growth%

¨ Overall 8.7% (8.7% Year to Date)

¨ Domestic 8.8% (8.8% Year to Date)

¨ Transborder 11.0% (11.0% Year to Date)

¨ International 3.9% (3.9% Year to Date)

Coldrsx · #**6613** Posted **Mar 2, 2012, 2:20 AM**

Huge again... Wow. Get the PR campaign going

dansk · #**6614** Posted **Mar 2, 2012, 5:10 AM**

They did PR on this already. These are Jan Stats, which have been covered. Hopefully Feb is big, which I assume it will be with the extra IAH flight and extra day.

Jasper and one o nin · #**6615** Posted **Mar 2, 2012, 3:05 PM**

February should be at least 3.5% better than last year. What with leap year and all

tuffyy · #**6616** Posted **Mar 3, 2012, 6:32 AM**

On Wednesday it looks like AC subbed a 777-300 on the YYZ-YEG route flight 157/158...

tuffyy · #**6617** Posted **Mar 4, 2012, 7:05 PM**

Boeing 747-800F from Airbridge Cargo inbound on the 6th on a cargo charter. Time is tba. I will post the time as soon as its announced by my friends fbo.

Coldrsx · #**6618** Posted **Mar 5, 2012, 3:59 PM**

^^ now that would have been awesome.

^ pics I say, pics

dansk · #**6619** Posted **Mar 5, 2012, 6:16 PM**

Air Canada actually mentions us with the 787:
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article2358591.html

Coldrsx · #**6620** Posted **Mar 5, 2012, 6:26 PM**

^excellent

'By late 2014 or early 2015, he envisages Air Canada beginning to gradually roll out the 787 in four more Canadian markets – Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Halifax.

“There are so many opportunities,” Mr. Smith said. He emphasized that the Dreamliner has the range to allow Air Canada to offer new non-stop service between major Canadian cities and popular foreign destinations, as well as pave the way for the carrier to increase the frequency of flights on some existing international routes.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article2358591.html#ixzz1oGh4HuIw'