Saskatoon and Regina Air Service

[SkydivePilot]

Originally Posted by Draftsman

Do any pilots or aviation experts in here know why the antennas atop the SaskPower Building on Victoria Avenue, as well as the one atop City Hall, are not required to have aircraft warning lights? The antenna that used to be atop the Canadiana Apartments on Broad Street had one. Many high rises, most cell phone towers, and all construction cranes around town have them. I'm curious. Thanks!

Yes, they should have them on there. I'd bet that one phone call to Nav Canada would rectify that.

Good call!

[SkydivePilot]

On February 2, 2015, during the 2015 Routes Americas Marketing Awards Presentation, Regina International Airport (RIA) was awarded the Marketing Award in the Under 4 Million Passengers category. RIA was nominated and shortlisted by North American airlines as an Authority doing a positive job marketing their airport. A further submission was evaluated by a selected panel of airlines. We were told our submission had the most passion and was the most thorough. More details in the press release below.

PRESS RELEASE: Routes Americas 2015 Marketing Awards Winners Announced

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport crowned overall winner in first regional heat of Routes Awards 2015

PRESS RELEASE: Routes Americas 2015 Marketing Awards Winners Announced

3rd February 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA

Last night during a fantastic networking evening hosted by Denver International Airport and its partners at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was announced as the winner of the first heat of the 2015 Routes Marketing Awards. Over 650 aviation professionals were gathered to witness the presentation of the awards and to take part in the 8th Routes Americas – the only route development event for the entire Americas.

Speaking just after receiving the award Austin Bergstrom International Airport’s Assistant Director, Jamy Kazanoff said: "We are absolutely delighted about the win, but a little shocked to pick this up given we were up against other airports with such high business credentials. It means a lot to us to be recognised by our airline partners for what we have achieved and I would like to thank them all for showing support in our journey to turn Austin-Bergstrom International Airport into one of the nation's most successful airports."

The annual Routes Marketing Awards are highly regarded as the most prestigious awards in the industry as they are voted for and judged by the airline network planning community. They provide the airline community with the chance to have their say as to which airport or tourism authority they think provides the best overall marketing services to them whether this relates to their particular relationship, effective results, provision of data and information or innovative techniques to establish new or maintain and develop existing routes.

As overall winner of this regional heat of the Routes Marketing Awards Austin-Bergstrom will be automatically shortlisted for the World Routes Marketing Awards which will take place at the event in Durban, 19-22 September 2015.

Austin-Bergstrom was also named as the winner from the 4-20 million passengers category with Orlando International Airport honoured from the over 20 million passengers category. From the under 4 million passengers category Regina Airport Authority were ranked top and the Destination Award went to Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority for the second consecutive year.

“We are delighted to announce Austin-Bergstrom International Airport as the winner of this regional heat of our marketing awards and would like to congratulate them and all of our winners,” commented Katie Bland, Director Routes, UBM EMEA continuing: “In the past 12 months Austin-Bergstrom has achieved record growth and has surpassed the 10.7 million figure for 2014 with capacity up by 7.0%. With 4 new carriers and 8 new destinations, the airport now offers 44 destinations served by 13 carriers.”

The shortlisted finalists were nominated by airlines and a respected panel of judges made up of senior members of the airline network planning community from the region then reviewed the lists and submissions from the nominated airports in order to determine the winners. The panel consisted of the following experts:



· John Kirby, Vice President of Capacity, Alaska Airlines

· Adriana Hurtado, Director of Network Planning, Avianca

· Dave Clark, VP Network Planning, Jetblue Airways

· John Weatherill, Director Network and Schedule Planning, WestJet Airlines

· Lukas Johnson, VP Network and Pricing, Allegiant Air

· Angel Garcia, Network Planning Director, VivaAeroBus



The full list of companies shortlisted under each award category were as follows:



Over 20 Million Passengers

Orlando International Airport - Winner

George Bush Intercontinental Airport – Highly Commended

Chicago O'Hare International Airport

McCarran International Airport

Toronto Pearson International Airport



4-20 Million Passengers

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport - Winner

Tampa International Airport – Highly Commended

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

Pittsburgh International Airport

Punta Cana International Airport



Under 4 Million Passengers

Regina Airport Authority - Winner

Aruba Airport Authority N.V. – Highly Commended

Sangster International Airport

Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport

University Park Airport



Destination Award

Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority - Winner

Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board

Visit Jacksonville



Overall Winner

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

Source: Routes Americas 2015 Marketing Awards

[SkydivePilot]

Regina received First Place with regards to the 4-million and under, and Toronto was Fifth in the 20-million-plus category.

Congratulations to the Regina Airport Authority!!!

[Robag]

Originally Posted by SkydivePilot

Regina received First Place with regards to the 4-million and under, and Toronto was Fifth in the 20-million-plus category.

Congratulations to the Regina Airport Authority!!!

[kalin_10]

Canada Jetlines plans on flying direct routes from YXE/YQR to Vancouver and Winnipeg. No commencement date has been announced.



Though great news, this does not open new direct routes from either airports; however opens YXE/YQR to further 1 stop destinations.

[Dan0myte]

Originally Posted by kalin_10

Canada Jetlines plans on flying direct routes from YXE/YQR to Vancouver and Winnipeg. No commencement date has been announced.

Though great news, this does not open new direct routes from either airports; however opens YXE/YQR to further 1 stop destinations.

They are going to fly to some unique airports. Baltimore, MD. St. Petersburg, FL. Ontario, CA. Oakland, CA. Reno, NV. Love that there's going to be more destination options.

But... do people still go to Reno?

I actually really like the direct flight to Winnipeg from Regina. Even though it's only a 6 hour drive, it seems longer and more painful than the drive to Calgary. It's just barren wasteland from here to there (Brandon included). For the longest time WestJet didn't fly it and Air Canada just flew small turboprops between the two. Luckily WestJet smartened up and started going there, but it will be nice to have a third option.

[esquire]

That seems like an extremely ambitious route map for such a small airline. I can't imagine that they are really going to serve all of those destinations on a regular basis... at least not right off the hop?!

[casper]

Originally Posted by Dan0myte

They are going to fly to some unique airports. Baltimore, MD. St. Petersburg, FL. Ontario, CA. Oakland, CA. Reno, NV. Love that there's going to be more destination options.

But... do people still go to Reno?

I actually really like the direct flight to Winnipeg from Regina. Even though it's only a 6 hour drive, it seems longer and more painful than the drive to Calgary. It's just barren wasteland from here to there (Brandon included). For the longest time WestJet didn't fly it and Air Canada just flew small turboprops between the two. Luckily WestJet smartened up and started going there, but it will be nice to have a third option.

Non-stop flights to Reno is going back to a different time....
Old CP Air Commercial from that time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x72sOlbmD7k


I was there about 2-3 years ago. It is run-down a little bit, but a unique vibe, more old-school Vegas with a bit of more well founded community around it.

[Stormer]

This looks great. The more options the better. I am not sure about Reno, but would love to go to Lake Tahoe.

Interesting that they completely ignored the AC and WJ hubs of Toronto and Calgary. Winnipeg appears to be the big winner here, although it is a short hop from YQR and YXE

[Treesplease]

Originally Posted by Stormer

This looks great. The more options the better. I am not sure about Reno, but would love to go to Lake Tahoe.

Interesting that they completely ignored the AC and WJ hubs of Toronto and Calgary. Winnipeg appears to be the big winner here, although it is a short hop from YQR and YXE

The business model seems to be going after cheaper gate options like Hamilton and Wpg. That does seem like an aggressive route map for 16 aircraft. There must be quite a few 1 or 2 stop per week destinations on there. Not sure about Oakland either - I suppose if SF is your style you just have to take ground transport.....assuming you get out of Oakland in one piece.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Treesplease

There must be quite a few 1 or 2 stop per week destinations on there. Not sure about Oakland either - I suppose if SF is your style you just have to take ground transport.....assuming you get out of Oakland in one piece.

BART serves Oakland just as it does SFO. Easy-peasy. It's not some far-flung outpost airport.

You must be bang on re: the 1x/2x week destinations though... daily service to that many destinations would require a lot more than 16 aircraft.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by esquire

BART serves Oakland just as it does SFO. Easy-peasy. It's not some far-flung outpost airport.

You must be bang on re: the 1x/2x week destinations though... daily service to that many destinations would require a lot more than 16 aircraft.

Yes BART leaves every 5 minutes most of the day and costs like $10 direct to downtown SF.

[Dan0myte]

It's nice to see that Jetlines has a firm order for 5 planes from Boeing. It's not just a Vancouver business group with "pie-in-the-sky" aspirations creating hype over their idea for a low cost airline. This airline is actually going to happen, although the routes in that graphic are just their dream right now of what they would do if they had 16 planes. It's yet to be seen whether they will get the funding to purchase 11 more planes.

[Draftsman]

Another 'unique' destination is Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport which is considerably smaller (1.4 million pax in 2012) than Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (40.4 million pax in 2012) which ranks it in the top 10 US airports. This might just be a Winter destination serving the Canadian Snowbirds who travel to the Mesa area (as may be some of the other sun destinations).

[esquire]

^ A lot of snowbirds living close to the US border in the BC lower mainland and southern Manitoba are familiar with Phoenix-Mesa because it is one of the major destinations for Allegiant Air, an American ULCC.

[kattiff]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...ticle22879937/

Looks like it's legit!

[Stormer]

Sounds like they will start with just 2 jets. That probably means at most 6 destinations this year. They have to raise a lot of capital. The price a fuel should help them out.

[Treesplease]

Originally Posted by Stormer

Sounds like they will start with just 2 jets. That probably means at most 6 destinations this year. They have to raise a lot of capital. The price a fuel should help them out.

I haven't flown in a while. Are airlines still using the "fuel surcharge"? I would imagine so as they have been topping up ticket prices since oil was $20/brl

[kalin_10]

Originally Posted by Treesplease

I haven't flown in a while. Are airlines still using the "fuel surcharge"? I would imagine so as they have been topping up ticket prices since oil was $20/brl

Yes.... and I don't imagine it will change any time soon. According to WestJet, they plan to use the fuel charges to cushion their profit margins.

[kalin_10]

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