YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by Cage

For those willing to fly an Enerjet 73G from YVR-YYZ, they can connect to Air Transat's YYZ hub to get to/from Europe.

And... Wow... this summer Enerjet will have not one.. But TWO weekly flights from YVR to YYC. With the weekly flights also offered to CUN and PVR, and now YYZ, you could almost call YVR a hub for Enerjet at 5 flights per week.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

And... Wow... this summer Enerjet will have not one.. But TWO weekly flights from YVR to YYC. With the weekly flights also offered to CUN and PVR, and now YYZ, you could almost call YVR a hub for Enerjet at 5 flights per week.

Give a guy a break, at least they're trying. ... (but I know where you're coming from ....)
.... or am I misinterpreting this?

[thebus]

Had a chance to visit YVR this past weekend. The A/B Connector area is very nice and I found the styling to be very continuous with the rest of the airport. I was very impressed.

[Johnny Aussie]

YYZ finally released their December pax stats. Closed off 2014 with total growth of 6.8%

Soooo...

I think for the first time, in a very long time, YVR led all of the major Canadian airports in pax growth for 2014 at 7.7%.

Comparatively as well, YVR had quite a strong December, whilst others had a bit of a slowdown towards the end of the year.

YVR's published stats do not include FBO passengers. Therefore, it is difficult to do a complete comparison with other Canadian airports when some include and some don't.

I think YQF was the overall winner with 66% growth.

[Johnny Aussie]

Jetlines has "expanded" by filling some key positions....

http://www.jetlines.ca/2015/02/18/jetlines-expands-and-introduces-new-key-staff-members/

In addition it appears they have signed leases for three 733-300s...

http://airsoc.com/articles/view/id/54e4c...p-jetlines-to-lease-b737-300s-from-gecas

Things may actually be rolling along a bit more than I thought.

Edit: Jetlines has refuted (on 20 Feb) this "rumour" stating they have not signed any leases...

http://www.jetlines.ca/2015/02/20/jetlines-clarifies-aircraft-leasing-status/

[Johnny Aussie]

CMA has added a daily YVR-YXS flight on the Dornier D38 departing YVR at 0940.

Just kind of popped up out of nowhere.

Maybe they are trying to get the jump on Canada Jetlines

[YXS_YVR]

Today is ABX Air's last day to YVR.

[hollywoodnorth]

Business: Discount airline ready for takeoff
New, YVR-based, ultra low-cost, carrier aims to repatriate Canadian air travellers from cross-border flying

http://www.richmond-news.com/news/business-discount-airline-ready-for-takeoff-1.1770006

[Valley_Refugee]

Forget Bellingham: Best flight deals take off out of Vancouver these days

http://www.theprovince.com/Forget+Bellin...Vancouver+these+days/10830645/story.html

[Klazu]

Very knowledgeable people in the comments section.

[excel]

Ya those comments were hard to read.

[Vancity]

anyone know of the developments of the outlet mall out there near YVR?

[Klazu]

I drove around the outlet mall a week ago (there is a new road around the mall). It was close to midnight, so it was pitch black dark, but it looked like they still have a long way to go. The surrounding roads are there, but the buildings only have some exteriors up so far.

[Zassk]

They are in the process of putting the roof on the mall right now. Most of the architectural features and layout are visible. I would guess that there is close to a year's worth of interior work still to be done.

It does look fairly interesting... certainly more so than what we've seen of the Tsawwassen Mills project.

Now that the mall has actually taken shape, the distance from Templeton Station looks much closer than it seemed in diagrams. The mall and station aren't integrated, but the walking distance is probably in line with other malls that have transit stations.

There's a pile of sand closer to Arthur Laing, which I assume is for the phase 2 that has been fast-tracked.

[phesto]

The goal was to have the mall ready to allow tenants to start interior improvements in June 2015...hard to tell if it's still on track for that timeline.

[trofirhen]

Any updates on the TWOV facility? I understood it was to become operational this spring. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[zahav]

Small update on the transborder front for summer. Alaska Airlines has upgauged their morning LAX departure to a 737-900, the largest plane in their fleet. They have also transferred one of their afternoon Seattle Horizon DH4 flights to an Alaska 737-800. It's positive news, everyone thought Alaska was having a rough time at YVR because of the increased competition (and maybe still are, who knows..). It's reassuring that instead of pulling more flights, they are upgrading the LAX flight and making one the Seattle flights a full mainline (and on a -800 at that, also one of their largest planes). Good news

[Johnny Aussie]

According to airlineroute.net Korean Air will:

1) introduce the 777-300ER on the YVR-ICN route from 29 March gradually replacing the current 777-200ER until 29 June
2) continue with daily 744 for the summer season from 29 June
3) maintain daily 777-200ER in the winter scheds 2015-2016 up from 5 weekly this winter.

http://airlineroute.net/2015/02/26/ke-yvr-s15

[excel]

That's good news.

Are the AC equipment changes from 767 - 787 a decrease in overall capacity like JAL's was?

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

And... Wow... this summer Enerjet will have not one.. But TWO weekly flights from YVR to YYC. With the weekly flights also offered to CUN and PVR, and now YYZ, you could almost call YVR a hub for Enerjet at 5 flights per week.

Were you being sarcastic?