Calgary International Airport II

[cyeg66]

Goodness, I'll return to the thread when English becomes the primary language once again. You guys make me feel stoopid.

[lubicon]

Originally Posted by cyeg66

Goodness, I'll return to the thread when English becomes the primary language once again. You guys make me feel stoopid.

This coming from a controller.....

[AlbertanToo]

Originally Posted by CalgaryLankan

Thanks for the update; Saturday's AC850 to LHR was also cancelled and some pax was re-booked to last night one; 2 cancellations in 3 days - not good. Can't see any upgrade of metal today either and they must be re-routing pax via other destinations.

Another, more detailed update to what caused the turn back on the LHR flight last week from the TSB.

A14C0024: A Boeing 767-300, C-GHLK operated by Air Canada as flight ACA850, experienced illumination of fault lights for the L/H bleed/pack systems. The crew carried out checklist procedures but the fault indications remained. The flight diverted back to Calgary and landed without further incident. Company maintenance deactivated the L/H high pressure shut-off valve and carried out an engine run. The aircraft was returned to service under MEL relief.

[CalgaryLankan]

Originally Posted by AlbertanToo

Another, more detailed update to what caused the turn back on the LHR flight last week from the TSB.

What is MEL relief?


BTW - Boeing painted one of their 748 in Seahawks livery and drawing a big "12" over WA state right now. See flightaware flight plan - very cool!!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE12

http://www.seahawks.com/assets/images/im...vents/2013/super-bowl/140129-plane-1.jpg

[MasterG]

Originally Posted by CalgaryLankan

What is MEL relief?


BTW - Boeing painted one of their 748 in Seahawks livery and drawing a big "12" over WA state right now. See flightaware flight plan - very cool!!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE12

http://www.seahawks.com/assets/images/im...vents/2013/super-bowl/140129-plane-1.jpg

This is great. How much does a stunt like this cost? Paint job, flight with fuel (although I assume they were doing flight testing anyways), plus its a 747!

[outoftheice]

Originally Posted by CalgaryLankan

What is MEL relief?

MEL stands for Minimum Equipment List. Every commercial aircraft has a MEL that lists what is allowed to be broken onboard the aircraft and still allow it to operate. Many times there are conditions attached to the MEL that require specific maintenance actions to be performed or certain operational procedures to be followed. In every case, there is a specific time period attached to the item that states just how long the aircraft may operate before the item is required to be fixed.

In the case of the AC 767, it appears that there was an issue with the LH pack that required them to turn back to Calgary. It seems that they weren't able to fix the problem so they turned to the MEL which (I presume) stated that either the LH or RH pack maybe be inoperative for xxx number of days provided that a certain maintenance action was performed (in this case it sounds like it had to do with the high pressure shut-off valve) and certain operational procedures were followed (although not familiar with the 767 specifically, generally if one pack is MEL'd there is a reduced maximum altitude permitted for flight associated with it).

[lubicon]

Originally Posted by CalgaryLankan

What is MEL relief?


BTW - Boeing painted one of their 748 in Seahawks livery and drawing a big "12" over WA state right now. See flightaware flight plan - very cool!!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE12

http://www.seahawks.com/assets/images/im...vents/2013/super-bowl/140129-plane-1.jpg

That is F'ing awesome!

[CalgaryLankan]

Originally Posted by outoftheice

MEL stands for Minimum Equipment List. Every commercial aircraft has a MEL that lists what is allowed to be broken onboard the aircraft and still allow it to operate. Many times there are conditions attached to the MEL that require specific maintenance actions to be performed or certain operational procedures to be followed. In every case, there is a specific time period attached to the item that states just how long the aircraft may operate before the item is required to be fixed.

In the case of the AC 767, it appears that there was an issue with the LH pack that required them to turn back to Calgary. It seems that they weren't able to fix the problem so they turned to the MEL which (I presume) stated that either the LH or RH pack maybe be inoperative for xxx number of days provided that a certain maintenance action was performed (in this case it sounds like it had to do with the high pressure shut-off valve) and certain operational procedures were followed (although not familiar with the 767 specifically, generally if one pack is MEL'd there is a reduced maximum altitude permitted for flight associated with it).

Thanks for the explanation.

[Cage]

Minnesota Wild are using DL as their travel provider. dL8947 is the flight number and it appears to be for all the wild charters.

There was a DL flight doing DEN-YYC last night. 01:30 arrival to gate C28, equip is 319.

I would assume that is this 319, then... down near Apron VI it looks like.

• Video Link

[CalgaryLankan]

Westjet Mickybird flight 8955 YYZ - YQG could not land at YQG and then diverted to Albany, NY.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/WJA8955/history/20140202/0302Z/CYYZ/KALB

Quite strange indeed. Made it there this morning. They do some painting there in addition to maintenance, pretty safe to say Mickey is not getting paint, however.

- Looks like scheduled work as it replaced fin 808 in Windsor which returned to YYZ then left for Varadero.

[tuffyy]

Rouge set to announce YYC and YVR routes this upcoming week.

I'm "confident" that you will likely see a few seasonal Euro routes added aswell by Rouge, as I have heard rumblings that Manchester will be added from YVR and YYC... Not sure what else might appear other than most current vacation flights being handed over.

Looks like Transat will have a little Euro competition this summer.

[YYCspotter]

^nice. I wonder if we might see seasonal CDG service too?

[Coldrsx]

Hopefully some YEG feeder flights as well...

[Canadian74]

Originally Posted by tuffyy

Rouge set to announce YYC and YVR routes this upcoming week.

I'm "confident" that you will likely see a few seasonal Euro routes added aswell by Rouge, as I have heard rumblings that Manchester will be added from YVR and YYC... Not sure what else might appear other than most current vacation flights being handed over.

Looks like Transat will have a little Euro competition this summer.

Looking forward to MAN, GLA, CDG..... likely won't get them all in the near future

[Canadian74]

Quick question - if one is flying YYC-IAH-CUN, do bags get checked all the way to CUN? Is it a simple connection at IAH (similar to flying YYC-NRT-SIN) or do they have to do security and other stuff again? What about the return journey CUN-IAH-YYC?

Thanks.

[tuffyy]

Originally Posted by Canadian74

Quick question - if one is flying YYC-IAH-CUN, do bags get checked all the way to CUN? Is it a simple connection at IAH (similar to flying YYC-NRT-SIN) or do they have to do security and other stuff again? What about the return journey CUN-IAH-YYC?

Thanks.

Your tag will read IAH--->CUN.

Straight through, offcourse you'll get to play red light/green light when you arrive...

Bag tags will read simply "CUN" as it's the final destination, no?

Pre-clearing for IAH is fine as you'll do it here but on the way back... customs at IAH can be a bit of a nightmare. Not MIA levels, but still a nightmare.

[Cage]

CUN arrives and departs from terminal E at IAH. Flights to Calgary are either AC that leave from terminal A ( other side of the airport from E) or united that leave from E or C. There are two inter terminal trains, one before and another after security.