Canadian Airport Thread

[Johnny Aussie]

Regarding Westjet's YVR domestic network.

As of now both YVR-YXU and YVR-YHZ are not in the schedules.

Last year these routes were announced in late Feb early March.

As it stands now YVR-YHM is daily as mentioned.

I think last year due to the weakening AB, Westjet's route planners probably didn't have much lead time to figure out where to shift capacity to try and get the best return possible... there really weren't many options so YVR-YHZ/YHM/YXU were attempted and probably only YHM saw any positive returns.

I don't believe their summer 2017 timetable is finalised yet though.

[nname]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

I think last year due to the weakening AB, Westjet's route planners probably didn't have much lead time to figure out where to shift capacity to try and get the best return possible... there really weren't many options so YVR-YHZ/YHM/YXU were attempted and probably only YHM saw any positive returns.

Plus this year, they probably used some of these capacity to try to squeeze New Leaf out of the market already...

[zahav]

Air Canada is converting Mexico City to all Rouge flights from YYZ, YUL, and YVR. YVR and YYZ used to be mainline. I think YUL was always going to be Rouge when it started for the summer season, but now YYZ and YVR are too.

[SignalHillHiker]

Has anyone heard if there are any U.S.-bound people now stranded at Canadian airports because they've been denied entry? It'd be nice to get together some people in our cities to try to help them out somehow if so.

[Zmonkey]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Has anyone heard if there are any U.S.-bound people now stranded at Canadian airports because they've been denied entry? It'd be nice to get together some people in our cities to try to help them out somehow if so.

Air canada was putting these people in hotels around Pearson until they could figure out of they could continue on/go back.

I work in the aviation world, but for an airline.

[Bigtime]

WestJet starting Calgary-Nashville on May 4, flights operate twice a week.

http://wkrn.com/2017/01/30/nashville-airport-announces-nonstop-flights-to-calgary/

[The Fisher Account]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

WestJet starting Calgary-Nashville on May 4, flights operate twice a week.

http://wkrn.com/2017/01/30/nashville-airport-announces-nonstop-flights-to-calgary/

Awesome news! Hopefully this continues. Would love to go see the Texans play in Nashville next season, but last time I tried it was like a 15 hour flight to get to Nashville via a bunch of connections

[thenoflyzone]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

WestJet starting Calgary-Nashville on May 4, flights operate twice a week.

http://wkrn.com/2017/01/30/nashville-airport-announces-nonstop-flights-to-calgary/

Seems like an odd route. What's the market like between the two?

[p_xavier]

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Seems like an odd route. What's the market like between the two?

Many cowboy hats lovers it seems.

[zahav]

Speak of the devil, Westjet has once again loaded YVR-YHZ and YVR-YXU into the schedules. Both operating 4x weekly.

[Pinus]

Originally Posted by zahav

Speak of the devil, Westjet has once again loaded YVR-YHZ and YVR-YXU into the schedules. Both operating 4x weekly.

They have also uploaded the YWG-YHZ seasonal routes as well.

[excel]

YVR numbers:

December 2016:

Domestic: up 7.6%
Transborder: up 14.3%
Asia: up 16.5%
Europe: down 6.0%
Misc: up 21.7%
Total International: Up 13.6%
Grand total: up 10.5%
Cargo: up 5.5%


Year 2016:

Domestic: up 7.6%
Transborder: up 7.4%
Asia: up 15.7%
Europe: up 14.9%
Misc: up 27.0%
Total International: Up 11.9%
Grand total: up 9.7%
Cargo: up 3.2%

Total passengers: approx 22.3mil

[yyzer]

Fantastic growth at YVR!

[LeftCoaster]

Wow, just short of 2 million in growth. Very impressive year.

Interesting new route for YYC, -3.4% transborder growth for the year and launching a new route to a small market, on a 737-800 to boot. Westjet's sure got some cahones!

[Pinus]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Wow, just short of 2 million in growth. Very impressive year.

Interesting new route for YYC, -3.4% transborder growth for the year and launching a new route to a small market, on a 737-800 to boot. Westjet's sure got some cahones!

Is it really that surprising? Calgary is their beloved headquarters city. They will do anything to appease the masses there, including taking flights away (or at least reducing frequencies of flights) from cities like Edmonton, Winnipeg and Halifax and giving yet more options for Calgary, regardless of their yearly passenger performance in certain demographics.

No bias there. None at all.

[jmt18325]

Calgary is their main hub. Always has been, and probably always will be.

[Pinus]

I know and that is fair enough. But it doesn't mean I have to agree with or respect how they treat other cities.

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by Pinus

I know and that is fair enough. But it doesn't mean I have to agree with or respect how they treat other cities.

How they "treat" other cities? Really? So they should just fly all these unviable routes just to please the residents of certain cities?

Like it or not Westjet's main operations are at YYC and YYZ and their business plan will be based on that model. The perception of how they treat other cities sounds like they just do it as if they are bullies. I don't think so.

[rotten42]

Originally Posted by Pinus

I know and that is fair enough. But it doesn't mean I have to agree with or respect how they treat other cities.

You mean like pretty much every other major airline does with their hub.

[G.S MTL]

Air China has delayed the 789 PEK-YUL... beginning now in September. Also, frequency now 5 weekly instead of 6...beginning in October.