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tuffyy · #**8961** Posted **Mar 13, 2020, 9:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by YYCFlier

Not that I'm going anywhere internationally but I assume YYC will get a pass from Transport Canada on allowing international flights the same as YYZ, YUL and YVR since a big portion of WestJet's international traffic is here. YOW and YEG not so lucky though.

Likely with limits as they are also planning on limiting how many flights can be operated to said airports by each airline. Wait and see and we should know later today.

People_talking · #**8962** Posted **Mar 14, 2020, 4:04 PM**

Hear WestJet is planning layoffs of their inflight staff as well. could be in the hundreds.

YYCguys · #**8963** Posted **Mar 14, 2020, 4:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by People_talking

Hear WestJet is planning layoffs of their inflight staff as well. could be in the hundreds.

Not just within inflight. Within the whole company.

Johnny Aussie · #**8964** Posted **Mar 14, 2020, 10:20 PM**

I cannot think of one airline globally where this isn’t going to happen.
It’s a storm that we will just have to ride out.

hollywoodcory · #**8965** Posted **Mar 15, 2020, 12:58 AM**

I heard the 50% figure floating around is a "worst case scenario." Layoffs are a given, but how many pink slips handed out is tbd.

I'll be watching tonight's schedule update to see if they've finally decided to suspend any routes. So far, nothing's been adjusted.

People_talking · #**8966** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 3:21 AM**

Guess it's a bad time to be an aviation student

Hopefully things will start to recover before I graduate.

PPAR · #**8967** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 4:52 AM**

The federal government is due to restrict international flights to only a few airports. I suspect you will see the schedule adjustments occur after that becomes public.

thenoflyzone · #**8968** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 12:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by PPAR

The federal government is due to restrict international flights to only a few airports. I suspect you will see the schedule adjustments occur after that becomes public.

YYC is included in the designated airports it seems.

It will be the 4 majors.

zahav · #**8969** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 10:19 PM**

Is WS still honestly planning to launch Rome in just over a month?

tuffyy · #**8970** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 10:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by zahav

Is WS still honestly planning to launch Rome in just over a month?

I'm gonna say no. Any remaining European flights as of now are gonna be near empty let alone launching a new route.

YYCFlier · #**8971** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 11:19 PM**

My guess is that once all the Canadians are home WS will suspend CDG and move FCO launch. No one if there's enough demand to keep LGW at either YYC or YYZ.

PPAR · #**8972** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by YYCFlier

My guess is that once all the Canadians are home WS will suspend CDG and move FCO launch. No one if there's enough demand to keep LGW at either YYC or YYZ.

I am going to guess that WS plans to keep LGW going out of YYC, otherwise I doubt YYC would have made the federal government's list of airports continuing international flights.

hollywoodcory · #**8973** Posted **Mar 17, 2020, 1:36 AM**

I believe WS will keep its long-haul schedule as planned until the end of the month. After that, I believe LGW will be kept in some capacity. Maybe it could rotated off of YYZ? As for CDG, I can see them suspending it until May or June. Like yesterday, today's outbound flight to Paris has about 60-70 people on it. Inbound tomorrow is 100% full.

FCO / DUB / GLA will all likely get delayed or outright cancelled.

Also YYC is expecting a 30% drop in passenger volume this year (about 5 million less).

Canadian74 · #**8974** Posted **Mar 17, 2020, 4:08 AM**

WestJet to suspend all international flights, including US, for at least 30 days starting Mar 22.
Domestic capacity cut 50%.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-suspends-flights-1.5499965

People_talking · #**8975** Posted **Mar 17, 2020, 4:34 AM**

I expect every airport in Canada to see at least a 20% drop, I'm glad it's only 30% here.

Maybe Montreal will have a more dramatic drop since they carry a high international pax load. Maybe we can retake third for the year.

outoftheice · #**8976** Posted **Mar 17, 2020, 5:58 AM**

Not that it will have a huge impact on YYC but Sunwing has also suspended all flights from March 23rd until at least April 10th.

Denscity · #**8977** Posted **Mar 17, 2020, 6:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by People_talking

I expect every airport in Canada to see at least a 20% drop, I'm glad it's only 30% here.

Maybe Montreal will have a more dramatic drop since they carry a high international pax load. Maybe we can retake third for the year.

NoFly is so dreading this lol!

hollywoodcory · #**8978** Posted **Mar 18, 2020, 10:40 AM**

YYC April/May Long-Haul updates:

Air Canada:
LHR - Unchanged
FRA - Unchanged
NRT - Suspended until June 30

WestJet:
LGW - Suspended until April 22
CDG - Suspended until April 22
FCO / DUB - Scheduled as normal. Rome is still scheduled to launch May 2.

KLM:
AMS - Unchanged

British Airways:
LHR - Unchanged

Hainan Airlines - Suspended indefinitely

More changes are highly likely.

tuffyy · #**8979** Posted **Mar 18, 2020, 1:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory

YYC April/May Long-Haul updates:

Air Canada:
LHR - Unchanged
FRA - Unchanged
NRT - Suspended until June 30

WestJet:
LGW - Suspended until April 22
CDG - Suspended until April 22
FCO / DUB - Scheduled as normal. Rome is still scheduled to launch May 2.

KLM:
AMS - Unchanged

British Airways:
LHR - Unchanged

Hainan Airlines - Suspended indefinitely

More changes are highly likely.

That will change very quickly unless you like flying empty airplanes coming up in the next few days. New routes by anyone are going to take a long time to recover when they start again world wide.

thenoflyzone · #**8980** Posted **Mar 18, 2020, 2:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

NoFly is so dreading this lol!

January 2020 numbers for Canada's 6 busiest airports:

YYZ 3,825,948 -0.3%
YVR 2,021,535 -0.3%
YUL 1,600,363 +4.5%
YYC 1,337,788 -3.6%
YEG 624,827 -4.5%
YOW 406,382 +0.7%

You're gonna need to giddy up for that to happen. WS cutting 50% domestic capacity and Canadian oil down to 11$ wont help.