Saskatoon and Regina Air Service - Page 108

esquire · #**2141** Posted **Oct 9, 2021, 7:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by McBean

I've noticed that Air Canada often substitutes in smaller capacity aircrafts on certain routes. The A321 Regina to Toronto rouge at around 11 am is often downsized to either an A319 on Saturdays I notice, and even one of those embraer a couple times. E175. I've also noticed a lot of very small CRJ200 on Vancouver routes instead of regular CRJ900s.

AC has become more agile over the years at responding to fluctuating demand levels. I remember 20, 25 years ago it was not uncommon to be on flights that had a lot of empty seats. By 2019 that was fairly rare unless you happened to be on a flight that was repositioning a plane for some reason.

one_brick_at_a_time · #**2142** Posted **Oct 11, 2021, 9:58 PM**

Regina airport waiting for details on federal vaccine policy, demands return of international arrivals

https://www.cjme.com/2021/10/11/regi...onal-arrivals/

Boggles my mind that YQR and YXE haven’t been cleared for holiday international flights yet. Such a huge part of the winter season business.

EDM753Fan · #**2143** Posted **Oct 12, 2021, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

Regina airport waiting for details on federal vaccine policy, demands return of international arrivals

https://www.cjme.com/2021/10/11/regi...onal-arrivals/

Boggles my mind that YQR and YXE haven’t been cleared for holiday international flights yet. Such a huge part of the winter season business.

Yes it is bizarre I'd have to agree. It is however one of many, many bizarre decisions coming out of Ottawa in the Trudeau era...

McBean · #**2144** Posted **Oct 13, 2021, 3:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

AC has become more agile over the years at responding to fluctuating demand levels. I remember 20, 25 years ago it was not uncommon to be on flights that had a lot of empty seats. By 2019 that was fairly rare unless you happened to be on a flight that was repositioning a plane for some reason.

I agree with you.

Calfan12 · #**2145** Posted **Oct 15, 2021, 10:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

Regina airport waiting for details on federal vaccine policy, demands return of international arrivals

https://www.cjme.com/2021/10/11/regi...onal-arrivals/

Boggles my mind that YQR and YXE haven’t been cleared for holiday international flights yet. Such a huge part of the winter season business.

Well smaller cities like Saskatoon & Regina Winter season international passenger traffic in Canada is not that great & most of Saskatchewan passengers are still and will get rerouted through Canada’s 4 busiest Airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary & Montreal to fill up the planes ✈️ usually✅.

Calfan12 · #**2146** Posted **Oct 15, 2021, 10:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by EDM753Fan

Yes it is bizarre I'd have to agree. It is however one of many, many bizarre decisions coming out of Ottawa in the Trudeau era...

Not Canada government’s fault, smaller cities like Saskatoon & Regina Winter season international passenger traffic in Canada is not that great!

Which means Saskatchewan passengers are & will get rerouted through Canada’s 4 busiest Airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary & Montreal to fill up the planes ✈️!

Calfan12 · #**2147** Posted **Oct 15, 2021, 10:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

AC has become more agile over the years at responding to fluctuating demand levels. I remember 20, 25 years ago it was not uncommon to be on flights that had a lot of empty seats. By 2019 that was fairly rare unless you happened to be on a flight that was repositioning a plane for some reason.

Yes & good example of it Air Canada (AC) since 2021 has been using 1 heavy plane ✈️- a 787 or A330 doing the Montreal-Calgary-Montreal in Western Canada.

Not surprising as with Saskatoon & Regina-Montreal flights which is Summer (seasonal) only. Basically AC’s 1 heavy daily between Calgary & Montreal has a lot of extra capacity to accommodate alot of Saskatchewan passengers heading to Montreal via Calgary.

EDM753Fan · #**2148** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 6:51 PM**

Flair Expanding its flights including new service from YEG-YQR!

https://globalnews.ca/news/8277670/f...-october-2021/

one_brick_at_a_time · #**2149** Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 7:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by EDM753Fan

Flair Expanding its flights including new service from YEG-YQR!

https://globalnews.ca/news/8277670/f...-october-2021/

Edmonton – Regina (YEG-YQR) - 2x weekly starting April 14, 2022

Edmonton – Saskatoon (YEG-YXE) - 3x weekly starting April 15, 2022

Great news! Hopefully this will force Air Canada will reinstate non stop Edmonton flights from Regina.

McBean · #**2150** Posted **Oct 20, 2021, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

Edmonton – Regina (YEG-YQR) - 2x weekly starting April 14, 2022

Edmonton – Saskatoon (YEG-YXE) - 3x weekly starting April 15, 2022

Great news! Hopefully this will force Air Canada will reinstate non stop Edmonton flights from Regina.

That's great news.

Calfan12 · #**2151** Posted **Oct 21, 2021, 9:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

Edmonton – Regina (YEG-YQR) - 2x weekly starting April 14, 2022

Edmonton – Saskatoon (YEG-YXE) - 3x weekly starting April 15, 2022

Great news! Hopefully this will force Air Canada will reinstate non stop Edmonton flights from Regina.

It’s Not going to Force Air Canada to resume Edmonton- Saskatoon & Regina nonstop flights✈️. As WestJet will be Flairs main competition on Edmonton- Saskatoon & Regina flights & along with Rider Express bus company which has the only Alberta nonstop bus service departing from Edmonton to Saskatoon/Regina.

AC is likely to be more focus on competing with WestJet on Calgary - Regina & Saskatoon nonstop flights departing Alberta which has more passengers demand & is more profitable✅.

PhotoJim · #**2152** Posted **Oct 21, 2021, 3:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calfan12

AC is likely to be more focus on competing with WestJet on Calgary - Regina & Saskatoon nonstop flights departing Alberta which has more passengers demand & is more profitable✅.

And remember that Air Canada is a hub-and-spoke airline. Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are their main hubs, which is why we have good service to the first three (and sometimes even service to Montreal). Even the flights we have to Winnipeg and Edmonton are primarily intended as secondary spoke flights - when flying Air Canada, I've connected through Edmonton and Winnipeg more than I've simply flown there.

EDM753Fan · #**2153** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 1:03 PM**

I have no idea if this will actually happen but this AC schedule is showing A220 replacing CR9 in early-mid January from YQR-YYZ.

https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/...schedules.html

Its probably the closest thing to the old E190 in terms of capacity, in the AC fleet currently.

casper · #**2154** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 1:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by EDM753Fan

I have no idea if this will actually happen but this AC schedule is showing A220 replacing CR9 in early-mid January from YQR-YYZ.

https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/...schedules.html

Its probably the closest thing to the old E190 in terms of capacity, in the AC fleet currently.

Not surprising. January/February is peek season for sun destinations from Saskatchewan. Could even see that peeking back to an A320 during that period especially given the situation with Delta.

one_brick_at_a_time · #**2155** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 2:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by EDM753Fan

I have no idea if this will actually happen but this AC schedule is showing A220 replacing CR9 in early-mid January from YQR-YYZ.

https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/...schedules.html

Its probably the closest thing to the old E190 in terms of capacity, in the AC fleet currently.

It’s been back and forth all year. The Airbus A220-300 production hasn’t delivered any new planes to Air Canada since June 30. It was supposed to be the new A220-300 flying to Regina in Sept, and then was pushed back to November and now the new year. I was able to fly on the plane recently and it’s gorgeous (2 larger bathrooms at the back compared to the match box in the CRJ900). It will be well worth the wait once it fully replaces the CRJ900 on the YQR-YYZ route.

Robag · #**2156** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 3:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by EDM753Fan

I have no idea if this will actually happen but this AC schedule is showing A220 replacing CR9 in early-mid January from YQR-YYZ.

https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/...schedules.html

Its probably the closest thing to the old E190 in terms of capacity, in the AC fleet currently.

Hard to say what will happen. The A220 was supposed to start in June, and then that was pushed back to September, and now it's pushed back again. The schedule you see in the future (4 months down the road) was input a long time ago, but they are updating it more frequently as the uncertainty with travel still lingers. For instance, if you try and book a flight on Westjet for instance next March, you might see them flying their Boeing 737-600 series. That plane has been retired from the Westjet fleet for many months now, and is not coming back.

one_brick_at_a_time · #**2157** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 7:36 PM**

thebasketballgeek · #**2158** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 8:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

I’m very surprised this wasn’t already a route I thought there was an established route the whole time. It just seems like common sense to be honest. Nevertheless, this is great for both cities.

esquire · #**2159** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek

I’m very surprised this wasn’t already a route I thought there was an established route the whole time. It just seems like common sense to be honest. Nevertheless, this is great for both cities.

It has been off and on over the years. I could have sworn it was operating right up until the pandemic?

EDM753Fan · #**2160** Posted **Oct 26, 2021, 1:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

It’s been back and forth all year. The Airbus A220-300 production hasn’t delivered any new planes to Air Canada since June 30. It was supposed to be the new A220-300 flying to Regina in Sept, and then was pushed back to November and now the new year. I was able to fly on the plane recently and it’s gorgeous (2 larger bathrooms at the back compared to the match box in the CRJ900). It will will be well worth the wait once it fully replaces the CRJ900 on the YQR-YYZ route.

I've just been on it on a brief YUL-YYZ trip. Let's hope this happens!