YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion - Page 345

casper · #**6881** Posted **Jan 21, 2015, 5:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

I notice that as of April, YYZ to Lima is becoming Air Canada Rouge.
Lima is the farthest West Of YYZ South America destinations, and closer to YVR than YYZ
I wonder if this might be an augur of thinks to come.
Hope so.
(although I notice TAM just added a GRU - YYZ run. This pretty much might choke Vancouver out, but Lima might be a start.)

It is not a favorite route of Air Canada. When they were short of wide bodies due to the Boeing delivery delays that was one of the routes they contracted a charter airline from Portugal to operate.

nname · #**6882** Posted **Jan 21, 2015, 6:09 AM**

Starting July 1st, ANA will use 787-8 for Vancouver - Tokyo Haneda route, instead of 767-300ER.

Source: http://airlineroute.net/2015/01/21/nh-s15intl/

Johnny Aussie · #**6883** Posted **Jan 21, 2015, 7:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by nname

Starting July 1st, ANA will use 787-8 for Vancouver - Tokyo Haneda route, instead of 767-300ER.

Source: http://airlineroute.net/2015/01/21/nh-s15intl/

Excellent! Another upgrade. And a small bump in capacity. I was wondering when that one was going to happen.

Large Cat · #**6884** Posted **Jan 21, 2015, 5:34 PM**

Wow, so soon KLM, China Southern, Air Canada, ANA, JAL, maybe even Air New Zealand, so many 787s!

And soon an A350!

Now we just need to get an a380

Denscity · #**6885** Posted **Jan 21, 2015, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Large Cat

Wow, so soon KLM, China Southern, Air Canada, ANA, JAL, maybe even Air New Zealand, so many 787s!

And soon an A350!

Now we just need to get an a380

Thanks for the recap there are so many I was trying to remember them all. And cool about the 350. #newmetal

Johnny Aussie · #**6886** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 1:03 AM**

YVR tweet

“@yvrairport: Húrra for @Icelandair! Thrilled that they will increase frequency at YVR to three times a week this summer: http://twitter.com/yvrairport/status/558315620991631360/photo/1”

So this summer FI will be flying Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays inbound and Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays outbound. The new rotations are on Thursdays I/B and on Fridays O/B. That's a 50% increase of capacity on last summer. Sounds good when worded like that huh?

Europe Summer 2015 shaping up to be fairly good compared to last summer.... well the additions more than make up for the losses....to recap so far:

Losses:
5 weekly VS flights to LHR
TS pulled the 3 weekly FRA flights

Gains:
AF new 5 weekly to CDG
TS adding one additional weekly to LGW (ttl of 6 pw)
TS adding one additional weekly to AMS (ttl of 3 pw)
LX (op by Edelweiss - sounds sexier) one additional pw to ZRH (ttl of 3 pw)
FI adding one additional weekly to KEF (ttl of 3 pw)

LeftCoaster · #**6887** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 1:29 AM**

Great to see Iceland Air upping their flights, would love to see that go daily some time. I visited Iceland in 2012 and couldn't recommend it more. It's mind numbingly expensive but the people are great and some of the scenery looks like it doesn't even belong on this planet. So cool.

One issue though, from the looks of Johnny's rundown that is an increase of only one flight per week, hardly big growth. Am I missing something? Will the new flights be on bigger planes?

Johnny Aussie · #**6888** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 2:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Great to see Iceland Air upping their flights, would love to see that go daily some time. I visited Iceland in 2012 and couldn't recommend it more. It's mind numbingly expensive but the people are great and some of the scenery looks like it doesn't even belong on this planet. So cool.

One issue though, from the looks of Johnny's rundown that is an increase of only one flight per week, hardly big growth. Am I missing something? Will the new flights be on bigger planes?

Yeah... Should have worded it differently... It's the difference in capacity of AF vs VS.
When Virgin and Transat axed LHR and FRA, that appeared to be a big whack to seats. Now these losses have been recovered, exceeded and frequency now > than 2014.

SFUVancouver · #**6889** Posted **Jan 23, 2015, 11:55 PM**

I used the new AB pier yesterday: it's nice, bright, and airy, and the arrival statement after coming through security is nice. There's not a lot of retail open yet and I'm surprised that they went with Carl's Jr. as the main fast food tenant since their food is pretty odorous, messy, and greasy, which aren't exactly the ideal traits for food that may be brought on board. I did find it a bit dark in places: some lights weren't turned on and in the odd place the only lights shine straight down onto dark carpet from recessed pot lights, and this doesn't results in a lot of ambient lighting. None the less, the new terminal is a huge improvement over the old AB pier connection. There's finally a 'there' there.

Johnny Aussie · #**6890** Posted **Jan 24, 2015, 9:02 AM**

Lots of chatter going on downunder that Qantas is going to announce a purchase of 787-900s. Of course one of the main speculations is this will open up SYD-YVR daily year-round. A perfect aircraft for this route. It seems inevitable that QF will restart YVR on a year-round basis IF these birds are purchased. Right now it's up to the 744ER to fly seasonally.

trofirhen · #**6891** Posted **Jan 24, 2015, 12:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Lots of chatter going on downunder that Qantas is going to announce a purchase of 787-900s. Of course one of the main speculations is this will open up SYD-YVR daily year-round. A perfect aircraft for this route. It seems inevitable that QF will restart YVR on a year-round basis IF these birds are purchased. Right now it's up to the 744ER to fly seasonally.

Great!! Any mention of flights to Brisbane or Melbourne from YVR?

nname · #**6892** Posted **Jan 24, 2015, 11:40 PM**

Overheard on my flight today that BR will increase YVR-TPE to 5x weekly later this year but will replace the 747 with 777.

deasine · #**6893** Posted **Jan 24, 2015, 11:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by nname

Overheard on my flight today that BR will increase YVR-TPE to 5x weekly later this year but will replace the 747 with 777.

That's good news if that's the case. The 777 ultimately has a much newer/better product, especially in J.

Johnny Aussie · #**6894** Posted **Jan 25, 2015, 2:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by deasine

That's good news if that's the case. The 777 ultimately has a much newer/better product, especially in J.

There are still a few unused frequencies available for Taiwanese carriers at their disposal so this allows BR to do this. It is a natural progression as carriers phase out the older aircraft to the newer ones. BR's 744s are leaving their fleet next year.

It's great to see 744s still flying into YVR... They are beautiful. In MEL we lost 744s for quite awhile but now see 3 weekly 744s on QF thanks to additional LAX flying. But... only a matter of time until they are gone :-(

teriyaki · #**6895** Posted **Jan 25, 2015, 4:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

There are still a few unused frequencies available for Taiwanese carriers at their disposal so this allows BR to do this. It is a natural progression as carriers phase out the older aircraft to the newer ones. BR's 744s are leaving their fleet next year.

It's great to see 744s still flying into YVR... They are beautiful. In MEL we lost 744s for quite awhile but now see 3 weekly 744s on QF thanks to additional LAX flying. But... only a matter of time until they are gone :-(

I knew the heading in to my last flight on BR's 744, it could likely be my last time on one. What makes BR's 747's special is they outfit the upperdeck with economy seats! So for a plane geek like me, its a rare chance to sit in the hump without shelling out the big bucks

Johnny Aussie · #**6896** Posted **Jan 26, 2015, 7:51 AM**

Delta increasing YVR-SEA to 5 daily for the summer scheds.

A new flight being added at 1530. The scheduled 1615 flight being pushed back to 1715.

DL's summer operations @ YVR increases to 12 daily. 13 on Wednesdays and 14 on Saturdays.

Johnny Aussie · #**6897** Posted **Jan 26, 2015, 11:02 PM**

What a great way to finish off 2014.

Total passengers for 2014 -----> 19,358,203 up 1,386,000 from 2013
December was 1,591,206 up almost 100,000 from Dec 2013.

http://yvr.ca/Libraries/Aviation_Marketing/rpt_Traffic_Update.sflb.ashx

Overall up 6.6% in December
Overall up 7.7% for the year

Transborder and Europe had a particularly strong December.
Misc int'l showed a small decrease (down ~ 140 pax).

And look at those cargo figures. Up 27.6% in December and 12.6% for the year.

Henbo · #**6898** Posted **Jan 26, 2015, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Total passengers for 2014 -----> 19,358,203 up 1,386,000 from 2013

Overall up 7.7% for the year

Johnny, do you think we'll be able to hit 20 million in 2015?

SFUVancouver · #**6899** Posted **Jan 26, 2015, 11:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

What a great way to finish off 2014.

Total passengers for 2014 -----> 19,358,203 up 1,386,000 from 2013
December was 1,591,206 up almost 100,000 from Dec 2013.

http://yvr.ca/Libraries/Aviation_Marketing/rpt_Traffic_Update.sflb.ashx

Overall up 6.6% in December
Overall up 7.7% for the year

Transborder and Europe had a particularly strong December.
Misc int'l showed a small decrease (down ~ 140 pax).

And look at those cargo figures. Up 27.6% in December and 12.6% for the year.

Thanks for the update. What a year for YVR!

A nice silver lining of not quite getting to 20 million pax is that YVR still qualifies for the SkyTrax 'Best Airport 10-20M passengers' category, in which it has placed extremely well for a number of years (1st place globally in that category for 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2007).

craneSpotter · #**6900** Posted **Jan 27, 2015, 3:28 AM**

^hmm, you're right! They should be a shoe-in for at least one more.

I'm thinking with the dollar vrs. the greenback we should see strong numbers for YVR-LA area due to an increase in filming activity. However, quick flight price checks show that it is still often much cheaper to fly to places like Vegas out of BLI for the price sensitive.