Atlantic Canada airport thread

[mylesmalley]

Surely we all have better things to do than fume at anonymous posters on an internet forum over real or imagined slights?

Please keep things civil. Please keep things on topic.

[Djeffery]

Thought I wandered into the YVR vs YYC fray on the Canada Airport thread for a second there lol

[magee_b]

Announcement coming today from Flair about their summer schedule.

On the main Canada Airports page there's reference to YHZ, YYG, and YSJ (though some confusion as to whether they mean YSJ or YYT).

Checked on the Flair website, and though nothing is loaded yet, there is a new drop down in the "deals" destination menu for Saint John. Will be interesting to see what their schedule and price offering is like.

[homebody]

Originally Posted by magee_b

Announcement coming today from Flair about their summer schedule.

On the main Canada Airports page there's reference to YHZ, YYG, and YSJ (though some confusion as to whether they mean YSJ or YYT).

Checked on the Flair website, and though nothing is loaded yet, there is a new drop down in the "deals" destination menu for Saint John. Will be interesting to see what their schedule and price offering is like.

It does list YSJ YYG and YHZ and the fares in the dropdown menu if you use Toronto going to.... It shows 4 days a week starting June 25 with early morning flights going and coming YSJ to YYZ. Hopefully not a misprint! Nice find magee b.

[gehrhardt]

WestJet seems to have dropped the afternoon (2:30pm) flight from YYZ to YQM as of May 1. I know this because my flight on May 3 was switched to the later (~9:30 pm flight). The flight is no longer available, at least for the couple of weeks around that date.

Not sure how permanent this is, but it makes it a lot less convenient returning to Moncton.

[ghYHZ]

Originally Posted by homebody

…...Hopefully not a misprint! Nice find magee b.

The new Flair flights are to Saint John, New Brunswick

Here's the YSJ Airport news release:

http://www.saintjohnairport.com/news/new...lines-and-ultra-low-fares-to-saint-john/

[RR Drummer]

Originally Posted by ghYHZ

The new Flair flights are to Saint John, New Brunswick

Here's the YSJ Airport news release:

http://www.saintjohnairport.com/news/new...lines-and-ultra-low-fares-to-saint-john/

I approve this message!! Very pleased. Great news and I wish YSJ & Flair the best of this announcement. The customer is the true winner here and I hope this leads to better service, pricing, options, competition etc for travelers to/from YSJ.

[homebody]

Originally Posted by RR Drummer

I approve this message!! Very pleased. Great news and I wish YSJ & Flair the best of this announcement. The customer is the true winner here and I hope this leads to better service, pricing, options, competition etc for travelers to/from YSJ.

One Word.....Awesome!

[Bishop2047]

Originally Posted by ghYHZ

The new Flair flights are to Saint John, New Brunswick

Here's the YSJ Airport news release:

http://www.saintjohnairport.com/news/new...lines-and-ultra-low-fares-to-saint-john/

Very cool and nice to see SJ leading the Flair bandwagon in NB. I know out west people raved about the prices.

[billy1]

Originally Posted by Bishop2047

Very cool and nice to see SJ leading the Flair bandwagon in NB. I know out west people raved about the prices.

Excellent news !!

[J81]

Originally Posted by gehrhardt

WestJet seems to have dropped the afternoon (2:30pm) flight from YYZ to YQM as of May 1. I know this because my flight on May 3 was switched to the later (~9:30 pm flight). The flight is no longer available, at least for the couple of weeks around that date.

Not sure how permanent this is, but it makes it a lot less convenient returning to Moncton.

It appears we have lost the afternoon flight indeed and had it replaced by swoop service from YHM. Shame as i liked that afternoon flight.

[MonctonRad]

I was just going to come on the forum and post the same information.

I have a source in the industry, and was just told this morning that we are going down to 2x daily WestJet service to Toronto from 3x daily out of YQM.

The reason for this is the addition of Swoop.

To add insult to injury, WestJet is continuing with the Q400 service too.

Overall, the addition of Swoop to YQM will be a wash, or perhaps a slight downgrade..........

[J81]

Clearly WJ isnt interested in growing the market. This is nothing more than an attempt to maintain a their current share in a different manner.

[OliverD]

Originally Posted by J81

Clearly WJ isnt interested in growing the market. This is nothing more than an attempt to maintain a their current share in a different manner.

Keep in mind they're also down a bunch of planes right now so expanding capacity is not exactly easy.

[cliff2121]

Originally Posted by gehrhardt

WestJet seems to have dropped the afternoon (2:30pm) flight from YYZ to YQM as of May 1. I know this because my flight on May 3 was switched to the later (~9:30 pm flight). The flight is no longer available, at least for the couple of weeks around that date.

Not sure how permanent this is, but it makes it a lot less convenient returning to Moncton.

Thanks for this heads up. This means that flight's return from YQM is no longer available at 7:15 pm. So now Westjet's last flight of the day departs at 12:30 pm! The later flight was very convenient for me when heading to Pearson to catch a late night flight abroad.

AC also used to have a later evening flight to YYZ departing around 8:30 pm but that got axed last year in favor of the Rouge flight that leaves at 6 pm. No other options now it seems for evening flights, which is very disappointing.

[MonctonRad]

Reposted from the PEI Thread:

Originally Posted by billy1

Charlottetown Airport has started design work on an expansion to its terminal building, with plans to expand the check-in, security screening and departure lounge.

Officials say the expansion was planned before a series of announcements this year from Swoop, WestJet and Flair Airlines which will significantly increase the number of flights in and out of P.E.I.'s only commercial airport.

"We know we have some capacity constraints in the terminal today," said Charlottetown Airport Authority CEO Doug Newson. "We know we have to act fairly fast but at this point in time we don't know exactly when that will be."

Newson said they will work first on a conceptual design, then a more detailed design.

They don't know yet how big the expansion will be or what it will cost.

"There is still a lot of work to be done before we can say yes, there will be shovels in the ground this winter or for next summer," he said. "In an ideal world, we'll have that done by next summer but I would not want to commit to that today."


Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-airport-expansion-1.5479808

[Bishop2047]

https://yfcfredericton.ca/Latest-News/te...-cafe-selected-as-food-service-provider/

The Chess Piece will open a cafe in the Freddy airport in the expansion. Food service in departures and a cafe in the arrivals. I haven't had anything from there that wasn't great, and happy to see local companies getting a shot.

[magee_b]

Was looking at flights and picked up on a couple YSJ-related AC schedule changes in the coming months (all subject to further changes of course). The Max groundings must continue to be having ripple effects in NB, most specifically with AC Rouge and Express capacity being shifted around to fill gaps, and what appears to be plenty of aircraft swaps. Potentially some extra fun for area plane spotters.

YSJ:
The official launch of AC Rouge service from YSJ to YYZ appears to be on for May, however now the schedules are showing one daily Rouge A319 (early evening) and 1 daily AC Express E75 (morning) instead of the planned 2 daily Rouge A319.
Mid-June it moves to a daily Rouge A319, 1 AC Express E75, and 1 AC Express Q400
Early July schedules show 4 daily AC Express E75 flights.
August dates show 2 daily Rouge A319

Even this month, depending on the week, there's a mix of Q400, CRJ900, E90, and even an AC Rouge A320 thrown in (One coming in on March 9th, it seems)

I glanced at a few dates in the summer for YFC and most appears to be as usual with the Rouge flights to YYZ. The YFC-YUL flights, however are all over the map depending on the day/week (mixes of DH3, CRJ, Q400, E75).

All of this obviously can (and probably will change), but I think it demonstrates how AC is having to move things around to meet their capacity demands / commitments.

[OliverD]

Looks like AC is going to be using the CRJ900 for at least some flights between YFC and YYZ. Just got a flight change notification for a flight I had booked for April 13 and it was just an equipment change.

[magee_b]

Bunch of route suspensions announced by Air Canada that will impact Atlantic Canada:

https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/home/book/travel-news-and-updates/2020/china-travel.html#/na

March 23rd - April 30th
Halifax - Gander
Moncton - Ottawa
Sydney - Toronto
Saint John - Toronto
Bathurst - Montreal

April 1st - 30th
Halifax - Deer Lake
Deer Lake - Toronto
Fredericton - Toronto
Charlottetown - Toronto

Porter Airlines is also suspending all operations from March 21st - May 31st
https://s3.amazonaws.com/eporter.flyporter.com/Suspension/index.html