YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion

[SpongeG]

norweigen is offering $69 flights from the usa to europe

http://www.coastalliving.com/travel/other-coasts/cheap-airfare-to-europe-norweigan-air

[Denscity]

Gonna go way out on a limb and say Copa to Panama?

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by Hourglass

Hmm... intriguing.

Of course assumptions about plane type could be wrong, since an A330 or even 767 can reach Asia from YVR. Fun to speculate though...

It sure is fun isn't it!?

Getting ready for my annual trek to YVR for XMAS! I hear y'all have had snow already

[Gordon]

Could the air line ne Singapore or a major South American carrier?

Pier A

Pier A now has 6 gates it seems that it could handle all of encore's & that traffic that uses B23.

[mezzanine]

Via flyertalk. an announcement of an AC destination from YVR to a new NA destination is imminent.

I think SLC, BOS or even IAD as a longshot.

“For 2107, Air Canada has already announced five new cities (out of YVR) it will be flying to,” she said.

The five new destinations for 2017 are Gatwick, Frankfurt, Taipei, Nagoya and Dallas.

Air Canada’s VP Global Sales Duncan Bureau said a sixth destination – to a North American city – is expected to be announced shortly. In the past four years the company has grown by $4 billion in new revenues.

http://www.travelweek.ca/news/air-canada-ends-2016-flying-high-record-growth-vancouver/

[trofirhen]

Johnny; look what you've gone and done !!! You have everybody's mind obsessed with this new "game changing, " "groundbreaking" route !! You bad kid.
Boy, though, I'd love to see a flight to São Paulo that would connect with Asia flights. Now that would be GAME CHANGING and GROUNDBREAKING!!
I'm not expecting anything as dramatic as that, though. Several times you've said South America won't work from YVR, so I'll bet my burnt matchsticks on SQL from Singapore.

[Vin]

My last flight with BA was 3 hours late. According to EU law, one can seek compensation from the airline. AirHelp is quick to offer their assistance. Does anyone have an experience with that?

As for the topic of which airline might come. AirAsiaX from Kuala Lumpur could be a contender since they are pretty ambitious. Would be their debut to North America too. It would be great to be able to connect directly to one of Air Asia's budget airline hubs in SE Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jakarta) as they offer really good prices to connect to other destinations.

[casper]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Johnny; look what you've gone and done !!! You have everybody's mind obsessed with this new "game changing, " "groundbreaking" route !! You bad kid.
Boy, though, I'd love to see a flight to São Paulo that would connect with Asia flights. Now that would be GAME CHANGING and GROUNDBREAKING!!
I'm not expecting anything as dramatic as that, though. Several times you've said South America won't work from YVR, so I'll bet my burnt matchsticks on SQL from Singapore.

Yes, this is almost as bad as kids speculating on what Santa will bring for Christmas.

Perhaps this off-topic aviation spot will serve as a distraction ( https://youtu.be/IWJeqrvoF6M) Good rational for recent Air Force decision.

Back to the topic at hand.....

I am going to speculate it is South America, operated by an Asia airline. Not certain which. JAL many years ago operated YVR to Mexico City. Korean Air was struggling on service to Brazil. Probably not Brazil but perhaps another South American destination.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by mezzanine

Via flyertalk. an announcement of an AC destination from YVR to a new NA destination is imminent.

I think SLC, BOS or even IAD as a longshot.

http://www.travelweek.ca/news/air-canada-ends-2016-flying-high-record-growth-vancouver/

Nice little piece of news. My guess is Houston. The UA flights there are always rammed and Air Canada's game lately seem to be adding service to already proven routes.

Second guess would be Dulles. United doesn't seem to want to serve it and O&D is quite high.

Originally Posted by casper

Back to the topic at hand.....

I am going to speculate it is South America, operated by an Asia airline. Not certain which. JAL many years ago operated YVR to Mexico City. Korean Air was struggling on service to Brazil. Probably not Brazil but perhaps another South American destination.

That's an interesting thought, but not for this since Johnny said it was a new tail.

I wonder what the rights are like for some of the airlines though. Doubtful it makes sense from a demand perspective, but a JAL-YVR-LIM route works well with JAL's One World partners, pairs Japan up with the west coast of South America, which for some strange reason has longstanding ties with Japan, and flies to a destination for which YVR would have some decent demand, given mining interests etc...

[vanlaw]

I’ll go with the same guess I had on the last one – Southwest to Denver or Chicago-Midway. Colourful tail and would be “groundbreaking” in the sense that it would be their first (or one of a couple announced at same time) Canadian destination. Probably wrong, but if I keep guessing this I’m sure to be right at some point in the next few years.

[CareerShow]

If i had to guess I would have to go South America as well, only because of the "groundbreaking" hint that has been given. That is my darkhorse pick and Ill say Lan to Santiago Chile. If i had a realistic pick its Singapore airlines direct service, with a continuation to either toronto or a US city.

[Johnny Aussie]

Further to mezzanine's post above....

Air Canada continues to expand YVR services!

AC will launch daily year round flights from YVR to DEN effective 18 May 2017.

Flights will operate twice daily through 9 September and then once daily throughout the fall and winter.

Flights will be operated by Jazz CRAs.

Official announcement expected soon.

[nname]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Further to mezzanine's post above....

AC will launch daily year round flights from YVR to DEN effective 18 May 2017.

Flights will operate twice daily through 9 September and then once daily throughout the fall and winter.

Flights will be operated by Jazz CRAs.

Official announcement expected soon.

Hmm... I wonder where did AC find all these CRAs... They've used it to launch SJC, SAN, DFW, and now DEN... that's 7 daily flights in total?

[Spork]

Originally Posted by Vin

My last flight with BA was 3 hours late. According to EU law, one can seek compensation from the airline. AirHelp is quick to offer their assistance. Does anyone have an experience with that?

I had a BA flight delayed by 24 hours 2 years ago and I just went straight to BA (info here). They tried to worm out of it, but by following people's experiences on FlyerTalk, I knew that persistance would pay off. I think that I complained to their authority to put pressure on them, but three months after my initial claim, I got a cheque for 600EUR. The best part was that this was on a work flight, and the delay meant that I got to spend a sunny winter day in Vancouver with my girlfriend.

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by nname

Hmm... I wonder where did AC find all these CRAs... They've used it to launch SJC, SAN, DFW, and now DEN... that's 7 daily flights in total?

Scrounging them up from somewhere!

This will push YVR AC transborder ops to 30 daily next summer.

[casper]

Originally Posted by nname

Hmm... I wonder where did AC find all these CRAs... They've used it to launch SJC, SAN, DFW, and now DEN... that's 7 daily flights in total?

AC or Jazz (not certain of the exact financial arrangement) has been buying more CRA.

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by casper

AC or Jazz (not certain of the exact financial arrangement) has been buying more CRA.

You are correct!!

http://chorusaviation.ca/2016-04-26-Chorus-Aviation-to-acquire-five-Bombardier-CRJ900-aircraft

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by CareerShow

If i had to guess I would have to go South America as well, only because of the "groundbreaking" hint that has been given. That is my darkhorse pick and Ill say Lan to Santiago Chile. If i had a realistic pick its Singapore airlines direct service, with a continuation to either toronto or a US city.

Please remember that we already have CX HK> YVR> JFK, and PAL MNL>YVR> YYZ. So we already have SE Asia to YYZ the USA via YVR.
That would not be "groundbreaking" and or "game changer," as it already exists, so I reckon South America is not totally ruled out.

[CareerShow]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Scrounging them up from somewhere!

This will push YVR AC transborder ops to 30 daily next summer.

Whats the breakdown? LAX 5 daily a319 a320 and a321, SFO 4 daily a319 and a320, Newark 1 daily 789, Chicago 1 daily E90, San Diego 1 daily CRA, San Jose 2 daily CRA, Dallas 1 daily CRA, Denver 2 daily CRA, Seattle 5-8 daily? DH4, Portland 4-6 daily? DH4?, Anchorage 1 Daily a319, Vegas 2 daily? 763 and a321/a319, Honolulu and Maui approx 1 daily 763?

Also with regards to my above comment I will change it then to two "game changing" options. First is SQ from Singapore to YVR, then to South America, lets say LIMA/Santiago. The other is LAN chile with YVR service followed by connecting service to Asia maybe?

Also do you think Denver, San Diego, San Jose, and Dallas will remain CRA or will they switch to C-series once the aircraft get delivered. CRA seems like an especially long flight for Dallas, and even San diego would be a tight flight. Also the E90 would most likely get upgraded soon off of Chicago no? Seems we don't get many of these aircraft anymore, especially like 4 years ago when basically every Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Whitehorse, LAX, SFO, Las Vegas flight was one of these aircraft. Any idea who is taking them off of AC considering they are only around 10 years old?

[nname]

Originally Posted by CareerShow

Any idea who is taking them off of AC considering they are only around 10 years old?

No one. Boeing got them from AC as part of the 737MAX deal, and they still have them.

Delta was going to take them, but they instead went for C-Series and cancelled the deal with Boeing.