Canadian Airport Thread II

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by Calfan12

Edmonton YEG handled a total of 7.92 million passengers in 2024.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/arti...umes-new-data/

Good to see the recovery and fall and intents and purposes back to pre-COVID #s.

Getting back over 8 this year will be an important milestone as well... and here's to our 9mil goal.

[Calfan12]

Record breaking news! YYC welcomed 18.9 million passengers in 2024 – our biggest year yet! A huge thank you to our guests for choosing YYC as their gateway to the world and to our incredible airport community for making millions of connections possible every year.
Cheers to more exciting milestones ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18R...ibextid=wwXIfr

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/...record-travel/

[hollywoodcory]

YYC December 2024 / Full year stats

Domestic: 978,847 +3.2% / 2024 Full Year: 12,603,837 -0.75%
Transborder: 289,712 +3.2% / 2024 Full Year: 3,863,649 +7.73%
International: 216,248 +97% / 2024 Full Year: 2,428,198 +10.0%

December 2024 Total: 1,485,036 +2.7%

2024 Year-End Total: 18,895,684 +2.17%

[thenoflyzone]

Originally Posted by Calfan12

YVR's growing passenger and cargo numbers reflect the airport's position as Canada's second busiest airport, and its role as a critical economic engine for Metro Vancouver and the province. YVR is now host to 51 airlines serving 120 destinations across the country and around the world.

This is interesting.

Up until last year, YVR had more airlines than any other airport in Canada, mostly due to the 19 or so domestic airlines it has, significantly more than any other airport in the country. That changed in 2024, when Pearson gained 8 airlines !

YYZ now has 54 airlines serving 180+ destinations
YVR has 51 airlines serving 120 destinations
YUL has, according to ADM, 36 airlines serving 157+ destinations, (However, that info seems to be from 2023. After counting the number of airlines, it's actually 37, and most likely 158+ destinations, now that BDA is announced)
YYC has 14 airlines serving 102 destinations (this one, I asked chatGPT, but I know the airline count is correct)

Number of foreign carriers (own work):

YYZ 46 (41 non-US)
YVR 32 (26 non-US)
YUL 26 (23 non-US)
YYC 8 (4 non-US)

[Dominion301]

Porter are adding YUL-EWR 1x daily on the DH4. Schedule as follows:

PD 2405 YUL-EWR 1310-1450 D OPS 25JUN25-07SEP25
PD 2407 YUL-EWR 1835-2015 X6 year-round
PD 2407 YUL-EWR 1920-2100 6 year-round

PD 2404 EWR-YUL 1045-1225 D OPS 25JUN25-07SEP25
PD 2406 EWR-YUL 1615-1755 D year-round

The year-round is clearly timed to/from TS' Euro flights.

NR: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/abou...+route+2025+02

DCA is now in the drop-down menu for Washington and not just IAD. I wonder if PD have secured a few DCA slots from B6? Searching for DCA though currently yields an error message.

[q12]

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

Number of foreign carriers (own work):

YYZ 46 (41 non-US)
YVR 32 (26 non-US)
YUL 26 (23 non-US)
YYC 8 (4 non-US)

YHZ 9 (5 non-US)

[thenoflyzone]

Originally Posted by q12

YHZ 9 (5 non-US)

Indeed !

YHZ punches above it's weight in that regard, that is for sure.

I usually stick to the 4 majors when it comes to stuff like this, but considering YHZ will now have more foreign airlines than YYC, it's definitely worth a mention.

[Calfan12]

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

This is interesting.

Up until last year, YVR had more airlines than any other airport in Canada, mostly due to the 19 or so domestic airlines it has, significantly more than any other airport in the country. That changed in 2024, when Pearson gained 8 airlines !

YYZ now has 54 airlines serving 180+ destinations
YVR has 51 airlines serving 120 destinations
YUL has, according to ADM, 36 airlines serving 157+ destinations, (However, that info seems to be from 2023. After counting the number of airlines, it's actually 37, and most likely 158+ destinations, now that BDA is announced)
YYC has 14 airlines serving 102 destinations (this one, I asked chatGPT, but I know the airline count is correct)

Number of foreign carriers (own work):

YYZ 46 (41 non-US)
YVR 32 (26 non-US)
YUL 26 (23 non-US)
YYC 8 (4 non-US)

That’s great!

Air Canada has delayed the return of the AC Boeing 767 passenger flights ✈️until April 1 2025. https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/02/12/...g-767-reentry/

[Dominion301]

It’s going to be not-so-fun times tomorrow (started this afternoon in Toronto) at airports in the east. YOW is supposed to be the hardest hit with up to 40 cm and peak hourly snowfall rates overnight exceeding 5 cm. Another storm of possibly similar magnitude is headed the same way for Sunday.

[Airboy]

Brother was mentioning the snow on Lakeshore and QEW last night. And passing Rogers as a concert let out. No Ubers in sght.

[msmariner]

Nice new project for Calgary and YYC
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/artic...ty-to-calgary/

[isaidso]

Will be interested to see what happens to United States (trans border) passenger volumes. Hopefully, we'll see massive drops replaced by a spike in travel to countries other than the United States. There will always be Canadians who are indifferent, don't care, blind to what's going on around them so perhaps a 100% tariff on air travel to the US is needed. It's exasperating watching some Canadians spending 1000s of dollars in the US as visitors while the rest of us are doing our part to save this country from collapse boycotting US products.

[Ozabald]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Will be interested to see what happens to United States (trans border) passenger volumes. Hopefully, we'll see massive drops replaced by a spike in travel to countries other than the United States. There will always be Canadians who are indifferent, don't care, blind to what's going on around them so perhaps a 100% tariff on air travel to the US is needed. It's exasperating watching some Canadians spending 1000s of dollars in the US as visitors while the rest of us are doing our part to save this country from collapse boycotting US products.

Be careful what you wish for. A 100% tariff on US air travel could result in the response that US airspace is closed to Canadian flagged air carriers and flights to/from Canada. Shall we ban Alaskan cruise ships from Canadian waters and decimate the BC tourism sector?

[Alexcaban]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Will be interested to see what happens to United States (trans border) passenger volumes. Hopefully, we'll see massive drops replaced by a spike in travel to countries other than the United States. There will always be Canadians who are indifferent, don't care, blind to what's going on around them so perhaps a 100% tariff on air travel to the US is needed. It's exasperating watching some Canadians spending 1000s of dollars in the US as visitors while the rest of us are doing our part to save this country from collapse boycotting US products.

Air Canada and WestJet rely on that 6th freedom traffic to fill their international flights from their respective hubs. What you're suggesting would put thousands of jobs in the airline sector at risk.

[RomanR27]

After pushing their re-entry into service back multiple times, most recently to April 1st, Air Canada has removed the 767s from the schedule altogether now.

[thenoflyzone]

^ maybe the plan is to send them to Europe?

nname was saying the long haul flight frequency across the AC network wasn’t matching with overall widebody count for S25. Could very well be AC is now thinking of using these frames to Europe next summer.

If that is indeed the plan, then these frames will need to regain ETOPS certification, something that wasn’t required if they used them within North America and the Caribbean. So removing them from the schedules might be related to that.

[jc_yyc_ca]

Originally Posted by Calfan12

Record breaking news! YYC welcomed 18.9 million passengers in 2024 – our biggest year yet! A huge thank you to our guests for choosing YYC as their gateway to the world and to our incredible airport community for making millions of connections possible every year.
Cheers to more exciting milestones ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18R...ibextid=wwXIfr

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/...record-travel/

I never thought I'd see YYC pushing 19M. It's not that far behind YVR relative to the sizes of the cities. YUL is running away with 3rd spot and looks like it might even pass YVR at some point.

[jc_yyc_ca]

Originally Posted by msmariner

Nice new project for Calgary and YYC
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/artic...ty-to-calgary/

That and the planned Dehavilland Plant/airfield are helping push Calgary into a good sized aerospace hub.

[Dominion301]

Originally Posted by jc_yyc_ca

I never thought I'd see YYC pushing 19M. It's not that far behind YVR relative to the sizes of the cities. YUL is running away with 3rd spot and looks like it might even pass YVR at some point.

Thanks to reduced China flying, YVR’s taken a big hit.

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Will be interested to see what happens to United States (trans border) passenger volumes. Hopefully, we'll see massive drops replaced by a spike in travel to countries other than the United States. There will always be Canadians who are indifferent, don't care, blind to what's going on around them so perhaps a 100% tariff on air travel to the US is needed. It's exasperating watching some Canadians spending 1000s of dollars in the US as visitors while the rest of us are doing our part to save this country from collapse boycotting US products.

There are many reasons Canadians may need to travel to the US. Canadians may have family or a relationship there, for example. Or they may be required to travel there for work. In my family, my cousin is married to an American who is a Canadian permanent resident (and to my knowledge is a staunch Democrat), but if something happens in his family, they may need to go there.

I have no US travel planned in the near future and have no roots/connections there, but I understand why other Canadians may still go there.