YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by twoNeurons

Please please please!

I'd love to see the following ( in no particular order ):

YVR-LIS on TAP
YVR-WAW on LOT
YVR-ZRH on Swiss
YVR-IST on TK ( of course )


Anything but more German destinations on LH.

I think you can scratch LIS and WAW; not enough market, ZRH on Swiss a very long shot, .... and yes! to TK to IST,... the Feds being the only snag on that. They keep the number of flights limited, for whatever reason, and won't renew the bilateral, effectively shutting YVR out (again, for whatever reason)...

Originally Posted by s211

Maybe he means that with FRA year round, and MUC seasonally, there is already enough service to Germany in particular.

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Inaugural QF to SYD for the peak winter season takes off tonight at 2000.

3 x per week for 7 weeks again. ........

Geez, I'd love to see the "Red 'Roo" at YVR year-round again !!! Maybe one day ... at least I hope so.

[thenoflyzone]

AC and Swiss (LH) have a joint venture, so for all intents and purposes, AC is already sharing the revenues of YVR-ZRH with Swiss.

[thenoflyzone]

Originally Posted by nname

Timetable. I only trust AC timetable as it's pretty much always the first to update.

AC 1916 YYZ-LIS 1236
AC 1960 YUL-LIS 3

And I cross-checked this result with June and August, and it gives the same result.

you say ''timetable'', but you probably mean AC online ''flight schedules''.

And as of today, in the schedules, YUL-LIS is showing 3x weekly next summer.

The AC timetables go out to March 24 only.

[Alexcaban]

AC upgauging YVR-CUN for a few days to an A333 due to B7M8 fleet constraints.

[s211]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Maybe he means that with FRA year round, and MUC seasonally, there is already enough service to Germany in particular.

"Anything but" is a rather loaded term, then. Otherwise? It came across as a slag against Germany.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by s211

"Anything but" is a rather loaded term, then. Otherwise? It came across as a slag against Germany.

I don't think it was intended as a slag against Germany. It's just that (especially if MUC went year round !!) we have ample service to Germany, and perhaps he'd like other destinations.
For me, the one I wish for most in Europe is Istanbul. The catchment area would be the Eastern Mediterranean, ME, Central Asian and Balkan states. A very useful connection point.

[thenoflyzone]

Looks like WOW chopped a bunch of routes, including YVR.

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1410627&sid=32feea093b9fc73f14d12de12bd3d66d

None of this is good news. Those who book tickets with WOW for future flights are taking a huge risk...

[Johnny Aussie]

AC launches its new YVR-LIH route tomorrow

AC now 5 daily to Hawaii for the winter
WS at 6 daily (up to 7 on some days during the peak)

Evening departures to Hawaii tomorrow:

AC519 to HNL 1750
WS1874 to LIH 1800
WS1864 to HNL 1815
WS1882 to KOA 1815
AC583 to LIH 1820
WS1862 to OGG 1820
AC537 to OGG 1830

All this happens smack in the middle when we arrive from TPE on BR next week

[Prometheus]

In interview, Craig Richmond announces the 25 millionth passenger to arrive on December 18th; admits YVR will likely fall a little short of 26 million for 2018.

Listen to interview with Craig Richmond discussing YVR’s growth here: https://biv.com/audio/2018/12/new-record-lands-yvr-biv-today-no-156

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

In interview, Craig Richmond announces the 25 millionth passenger to arrive on December 18th; admits YVR will likely fall a little short of 26 million for 2018.

Listen to interview with Craig Richmond discussing YVR’s growth here: https://biv.com/audio/2018/12/new-record-lands-yvr-biv-today-no-156

Damn! Going to miss being the 25 millionth passenger by just a few days!

Still pretty amazing YVR’s pax count but especially International.

Don’t think YVR will catch ORD international either. They’ve posted their Oct stats and ORD is about 200,000 ahead. Their YTD growth is 10.2% versus 9.3% for YVR. Still pretty amazing YVR’s intl count almost the same as ORD. Would never thought that would have happened in my lifetime. The gap with ATL and YUL has increased so far this year. ATL intl has only increased 3.6%.
YVR will remain at #8 for intl traffic between Canadian and US airports. Not a bad result for such a small city!

[Johnny Aussie]

Now that DUB is going AC mainline... YVR will have up to 6 AC mainline departures to Europe. On Sundays and Fridays....

LHR x2
FRA
CDG
ZRH
DUB

Who remembers not that long ago... (2015 to be precise)... AC had only one daily flight to Europe - just the single daily YVR-LHR. That same summer YYC had 18 flights per week to Europe on AC.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Now that DUB is going AC mainline... YVR will have up to 6 AC mainline departures to Europe. On Sundays and Fridays....

LHR x2
FRA
CDG
ZRH
DUB

Who remembers not that long ago... (2015 to be precise)... AC had only one daily flight to Europe - just the single daily YVR-LHR. That same summer YYC had 18 flights per week to Europe on AC.

That looks fantastic, Johnny. Thanks for posting it that way.
May I ask two questions please: I assume that 's for summer 2019, so might either ZRH or CDG oor DUB become year-round?
Second question: What do the stats look like with all the airlines, including the European ones, added to the mix? Those would be quite solid numbers, I reckon.

[canlynx]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Now that DUB is going AC mainline... YVR will have up to 6 AC mainline departures to Europe. On Sundays and Fridays....

LHR x2
FRA
CDG
ZRH
DUB

Who remembers not that long ago... (2015 to be precise)... AC had only one daily flight to Europe - just the single daily YVR-LHR. That same summer YYC had 18 flights per week to Europe on AC.

Next step is hopefully seeing some of these translate into winter frequencies, maybe FRA or ZRH.

Where were the extra frequencies in YYC going other than a daily LHR and FRA?

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by canlynx

Next step is hopefully seeing some of these translate into winter frequencies, maybe FRA or ZRH.

Where were the extra frequencies in YYC going other than a daily LHR and FRA?

Summer 2015 YYC had an additional 4 weekly to LHR. AC moved 4 weekly from the daily YEG-LHR to YYC. That summer YEG-LHR was reduced to only 3 weekly then was cut altogether. So Alberta-Europe summer 2015 was 21 weekly. That LHR flight slot was then moved to YVR.

[nname]

YVR-SZX will be non-stop starting Jan 28.

Intermediate stop at TSN will be removed.

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by nname

YVR-SZX will be non-stop starting Jan 28.

Intermediate stop at TSN will be removed.

Good to see that’s sorted. Guess they weren’t carrying enough pax to TSN.
Or perhaps they relaunch TSN later and hand the reins to Tianjin Airlines.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

In interview, Craig Richmond announces the 25 millionth passenger to arrive on December 18th; admits YVR will likely fall a little short of 26 million for 2018.

Listen to interview with Craig Richmond discussing YVR’s growth here: https://biv.com/audio/2018/12/new-record-lands-yvr-biv-today-no-156

Mr. Richmond's states is that he plans, over the next "few" (open to interpretation) years, to get from 127 destinations to 144. That's seven more. I wonder what some of them could be?
I know he wants what nearly all posters here want, such as Singapore and Bangkok, but he also mentioned South America as being important to him. Any guesses what he's trying for?

[thenoflyzone]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Mr. Richmond's states is that he plans, over the next "few" (open to interpretation) years, to get from 127 destinations to 144. That's seven more. I wonder what some of them could be?
I know he wants what nearly all posters here want, such as Singapore and Bangkok, but he also mentioned South America as being important to him. Any guesses what he's trying for?

Does YVR still have 127 destinations? Not sure. GLA, NGO and now TSN are gone...

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Does YVR still have 127 destinations? Not sure. GLA, NGO and now TSN are gone...

That's what he said on the recent radio interview. Anyway, he's looking for seven more - but will not release them right now. I wonder what seven further destinations he has in mind.

[Johnny Aussie]

I feel like I need a Christmas brownie with Cannabis in it.

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