wedgetail737 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5534 posts, RR: 5 Posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2662 times:
Hello, all:
With the US/Canada Open Skies agreement, can any airline from the US and Canada fly anywhere between the US and Canada the offers custom facilities? I want to take this one step deeper...Could a Canadian regional airline like Island Express Air from Abbotsford fly to SEA?
yegbey01 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1679 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2653 times:
Absolutely....I think the only requirement is to have Immigration and Customs facility on the US side. In the last 10 years or so, the US-Canada market has exponentially grown. Even small markets like: YXE, YQR, YLW, YXU, etc... now have multiple flights to the US.
ghYHZ From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 200 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 2379 times:
A small local carrier on the east coast provides this type of service. Twin Cities Air flies a Cessna 402 between PWM and YQI across the Gulf of Maine. It’s Yarmouth’s only airline service now…..Air Canada once had DC9s to BOS.
mtnwest1979 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 2122 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (8 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2089 times:
I remember when AC flew the -9s to Yarmouth. Always seemed an odd stop to me, but probably not many carriers wanting the BOS-YQI authority. Checking the fares, certainly not inexpensive, as I would expect. Bet it is a nice trip in sunny weather!
ghYHZ From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 200 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (8 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 1981 times:
Quoting mtnwest1979 (Reply 3): Always seemed an odd stop to me, but probably not many carriers wanting the BOS-YQI authority.
It was mainly a YHZ-BOS service but there was enough traffic YQI-BOS to warrant a stop there (strong ties between the Maritimes and New England)
YQI-YHZ was operated as a domestic route so all passengers arriving from BOS on the DC9 had to clear Canada Custom in the tiny Yarmouth terminal before continuing on to YHZ.
connies4ever From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 3857 posts, RR: 13 Reply 5, posted (8 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1820 times:
If it could have worked on scheduling, might have made more sense to run a stand-alone BOS-YQI flight, as well as the three YHZ-BOS flights. Doing BOS-YQI-YHZ would have been a pain. Or, if they could have at the time, subcontracted BOS-YQI.
Was similar with the 3x YVR-YYJ-SEA Viscount service back in the day. SEA-YVR pax had to deplane and do customs in YYJ - which, in those days, was a 'basic' airport. And UA were able to run SEA-YVR direct at that same time.
ghYHZ From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 200 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1623 times:
There’s also stories of the morning YHZ-YQI-BOS flight that couldn’t land in Yarmouth due to fog and just continued on to BOS. Passengers planning to deplane in YQI now found themselves in a foreign county. US Customs were cool with this and they were just dropped off on the return flight after the fog lifted.
Service eventually was transferred from AC to QK (Air Nova at the time) with separate YHZ-BOS and seasonal YQI-BOS flights. Air Atlantic (a CP connector) even served YQI for awhile.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21498 posts, RR: 24 Reply 7, posted (8 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 711 times:
Quoting connies4ever (Reply 5): Was similar with the 3x YVR-YYJ-SEA Viscount service back in the day. SEA-YVR pax had to deplane and do customs in YYJ - which, in those days, was a 'basic' airport. And UA were able to run SEA-YVR direct at that same time.
I've always been curious how TCA/AC lost their nonstop YVR-SEA traffic rights. That was ironic since YVR-SEA was TCA's inaugural route, 75 years ago last week (September 1, 1937). UA later became the only carrier permitted to operate the route nonstop for several decades.
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