Lubicon From Canada, joined Oct 2000, 197 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1793 times:
Calgary has surpassed 9 million passengers for the first time. It will be interesting to see how Calgary fares vs Montreal now that Mirabel passengers have been shifted to Dorval/Trudeau
Lubicon From Canada, joined Oct 2000, 197 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1784 times:
Actually, just looking at the YUL website, traffic is at ~9.55 million not counting December. Judging by historical numbers, they will come in around 10.2-10.3 million so YYC has a little ways to go.
By comparison, YEG is at 3.7 million (end November) and will likely come in around 4.1 million. For it's population, YYC is punching above it's weight compared to these 2 other cities.
Biggles From Canada, joined Dec 2004, 459 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1641 times:
WestJet's expansion has helped,plus Calgary is booming right now.The Oil and Resource industry is busy , plus hi-tech companies are moving here.
There's a new cargo facility as well.
It's also a great place to live ! (I'm a tad biased )
Yegbey01 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1681 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1596 times:
Well, YYC gets its numbers by stealing international and US bound pax mainly from YEG. Thank you Air Canada....
Yegbey01 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1681 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1567 times:
Captaingomes.....you can do some research. It's no secret how many flights out of YYC pick up so many YEG and norther Alberta pax (SFO, LAX and LHR)
Captaingomes From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 6413 posts, RR: 58 Reply 12, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1506 times:
it's all part of the hub system, so some airports lose out in a few point to point routes. Calgary can sustain more routes than Edmonton, and due to their relatively close proximity, that means that in many cases it is more efficient for airlines to fly YEG passengers to other places out of YYC. You strike me as an informed member, so I'm sure you know this, and that I'm not telling you anything new.
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Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 16001 posts, RR: 59 Reply 14, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1465 times:
The fact that passengers from YEG to the US have to fly over YYC anyway (whether on nonstop flights or thru YYC) makes YYC a well-placed hub for YEG travellers since they are not travelling out of their way.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
BO__einG From Canada, joined Apr 2000, 2760 posts, RR: 20 Reply 15, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1448 times:
International Traffic jumped to new records this year.
Many of the months for last year saw growth in the 10-20% from the previous years total.
Thanks in part to the likes of:
Thomas Cook which is year round,
All Nippon Airways and their charters,
Air Canada doubles to LHR
MyTravel servicing Last winter/Spring and Summer before pulling out this Fall.
And a few others which I can't think of right now.
I bet Cargo is also a record year, maybe this time we will top the 100,000tonnage mark. In reality that has probably already been done but so far no data is available. Maybe 110,000tonnage would sound a little realistic for the 2004 year in thanks to CLX,KAL, and Asiana plus all those American Freighters.
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Rikkus67 From Canada, joined Jun 2000, 1470 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (8 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1432 times:
Glad to see the $$ invested in the YYC expansion will pay off! It certainly is looking better every day! ...as long as WestJet keeps expanding... it keeps a little extra $$ coming down here to YQL...although I can't say exactly why...hehe
Now if only YQL had better quality YQL-YYC service...1900D's..how sad.
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