Perhaps, but the market from YYT is so seasonal that it's perhaps not worth it from the perspective of the equipment needs for short targeted periods. It's now like YOW where a seasonal TPA/MCO/FLL flight can operate daily for half the year, for YYT it's probably a few days a week max for four mont...
Jump to postNot sure if it was there before, but there appears to be a red-eye YYC-YYT as well This route has been around for a while, maybe close to 10 years or more. It was only briefly paused during the height of the pandemic, but has done extremely well for WS during their summer sked. WS also had a YEG-YY...
Jump to postNot sure if it was there before, but there appears to be a red-eye YYC-YYT as well This route has been around for a while, maybe close to 10 years or more. It was only briefly paused during the height of the pandemic, but has done extremely well for WS during their summer sked. WS also had a YEG-YY...
Jump to postI am not familiar with Canada's laws regarding airlines and contracts (i.e. - in the U.S., there's a process that must be followed to actually strike. Even if the process is followed, the president can step in to avert a strike). What is the process in Canada, and can the PM step in to avert the st...
Jump to postI am not familiar with Canada's laws regarding airlines and contracts (i.e. - in the U.S., there's a process that must be followed to actually strike. Even if the process is followed, the president can step in to avert a strike). What is the process in Canada, and can the PM step in to avert the st...
Jump to postThey are temporarily pulling out of YYC, or so they say. Leasing their a/c to another carrier (Flair). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-jetlines-temporarily-discontinues-calgary-1.6800153 They haven’t flown a flight to YYC or YVR for a while… Ok, I have no idea of their operation. All ...
Jump to postThey are temporarily pulling out of YYC, or so they say. Leasing their a/c to another carrier (Flair).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6800153
AC's terrible IT is now entering the 4th calendar year since the system changeover in the fall of 2020. This is now well past being a joke and is quite possibly the worst IT in the entire travel industry. Could not agree more. For a national airline their reservation system is diabolical. Westjet’s...
Jump to postI handled this diversion last night with AC. Two women decided to have a cat fight on board resulting in the diversion. Police met the a/c and I believe both were taken into custody. AA dispatch asked me if we had any Spanish speaking personnel that could assist with translation, which unfortunately...
Jump to postAre there plans to return the YYT-LHR flight? I wouldn’t say never, a second daily flight was operated from YYC before for a number of years….if the market warrants it, it could operate again. Doing so would require a reallocation of LHR slots to YYC. Recognising that they did do this in the past (...
Jump to post"YYT-LHR can already be done with the MAX, but it’s likely the high cost of LHR slots that will keep AC from operating anything other than YVR/YYC/YYZ/YUL/YHZ-LHR" Technically, YYT-LHR could be done with the A220 and quite frankly anything larger than the 220 is overkill. Our loads on the ...
Jump to postThe title is still misleading, please modify to "A321XLRs". To me MAXes will stay with Air Canada, XLRs fly way farther, it will nicely replace 1 for 1 the 25 B767s that were operated pre-virus. And I agree, at some stage the current A321ceos will need replacement, maybe with just regular...
Jump to postPosted earlier but removed by Mods... Air Canada has ordered 26 A321XLR's. Not surprising that this order was placed. I personally see a future order for more NEO's with LR's and XLR's. Perhaps we will see the MAX's go to Rouge. I posted a separate thread instead of burying it deep into the AC discu...
Jump to postHJM wrote:Likely AC flights will make a tech stop in Europe, perhaps DUB or CPH.
The relevant taxiway is about as long as the closed 4R/22L, but taxiways are lighted green while runways are lighted white. The problem here was between the neck and the top of the head. Taxiway lights are blue. The centerline line lights are green, but the edge lights are blue. Either way, they st...
Jump to postThe Air Canada retro TCA A319 was done around 1998. That was one of my earliest memories of a retro livery.
Jump to postMaybe this is a silly question, but none the less: I'm curious, given the recent environment (small load factors), wouldn't it make more sense to fly narrow body aircraft to Europe with a "technical fuel stop" in Iceland? I'm wondering why you would think they would have to do a tech stop...
Jump to postLooks like a financial package is on the way for AC. Not sure about other airlines.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-ca ... -1.5984543
Precisely , they the airlines have only self serving interests. Those marvelling over Air Canada’s inability to do the right thing during this spiralling crisis are forgetting that the flag carrier, which was built with public money, has long had a malfunctioning moral compass. https://www.theglobe...
Jump to postI was part of an AC employee group that had the privilege to tour the Airbus facility at Dorval in Oct 2019 and got to see the entire assembly process of the 220, and it is a fabulous machine. During the presentation, one of the on site managers said that CFM was very close to a fix with the engine...
Jump to postNot surprised about the MAX cancellations but am surprised about the A220 cancellations. I suspected AC would eventually cancel all outstanding MAX-8s in favour of additional 220s to suit lower demand on domestic routes moving forward. You don't see this as a means to get the government to maybe th...
Jump to postWhy can't you fly barefoot? Why would you want to fly barefoot?!?! Seriously! Walking around an airport and an aircraft where thousands of other people have walked with God knows what on the bottom of their shoes! Not to mention going into the lavs barefoot!! Ugh...An airplane is not some sandy bea...
Jump to postWe had wind and light rain here in YYT last night, but it certainly wasn't outside crosswind limits. The wind was from a SSW direction 38km/h gusting to 59, which favored runway 29 with about a 20 degree crosswind, again, nothing major, certainly nothing a properly trained Canadian pilot couldn't h...
Jump to postMETARs for that time show a different story. 66 degree crosswind for Rwy 29 and gusts to 31-32kts with rain. I hope you realize that different operators may have different limits for the same aircraft type let alone different types like in your anecdote. Should this crew have busted the recommended ...
Jump to postWe had wind and light rain here in YYT last night, but it certainly wasn't outside crosswind limits. The wind was from a SSW direction 38km/h gusting to 59, which favored runway 29 with about a 20 degree crosswind, again, nothing major, certainly nothing a properly trained Canadian pilot couldn't ha...
Jump to postI can't speak for other routes, but here in YYT, we have seen between 2 & 3 B763F turn flights a day. A big increase over the typical one flight per day.
Jump to postThe St. John's Airport Authority has given AC approval to park up to 16 a/c here in YYT. I haven't heard officially what a/c will be stored here or if there will be any at all. I was talking to one of our Aircraft techs yesterday and he told me there could be some A330's parked here, but it hadn't b...
Jump to postI've somehow been drawn to car crash videos on YouTube and there are many instances where the dash cam would actually exonerate a driver in a collision (many examples of insurance fraud, like backing into you and saying YOU crashed into them, or entering an intersection when the light is green to f...
Jump to postThe only operator of the C-32 is the US Air Force (which operates 8 of them). So the UK can’t replace them with A332’s because they don’t even operate them. The US Air Force is looking for a replacement though, but this will definitely be a American built plane. The UK does not operate any C-32. No...
Jump to postI hope AC keeps the A321NEO order and tops them up! I can see some kind of deal with Airbus to dump the A310's and the A332's for more 321N's.
Jump to postDoes anybody have a link to the pics of the planes parked on the runways? Here is a link to my FB page with pics of the 27 a/c that diverted to YYT on 9/11. All of these pictures were taken by me on Sept 12. I was on my days off on 9/11 and was watching the news of the attacks as they unfolded as w...
Jump to postVery nice thing for AC to do! Very proud that they did this. The boys mother and I have been friends for close to 25 years.
Jump to postI would suggest looking a little closer at the two pictures. Why don't we do a quick comparison before we suggest that the photog photoshopped his picture? If you look at N171UA, you will see the L1 door section has been completely cut out as with the other a/c (N182UA??), the L1 door is very much i...
Jump to postYYT is a small airport with 24hr operations. AC has multiple flights that arrive after midnight including flights from YYZ that up until this winter schedule arrived at 0200 and 0330 respectively. WS also has a couple of flights that arrive around or just after midnight. The first departure is an AC...
Jump to postThis is an excerpt from our internal employee news site from Oct 18: "To support our fleet plan and sustain our international growth, we decided to acquire four Airbus A330 aircraft, previously operating at TAP Portugal, to replace aircraft that we’re retiring: mainline Boeing 767s. The combina...
Jump to postThere is an A320 in the new livery. FIN239, one of the later build A320's was painted a few weeks back and is in service. I doubt we will see any A319's painted as most of these are going to be transferred over to Rouge or retired. There are other aviation sites that have pics of the new livery A320.
Jump to postI've worked the ramp with AC for almost 20 years, and I have differing opinions on containerized vs non containerized a/c. The containerized A320/321 are great planes, and, as VonRichtofen stated above, the turn times are less because of it. However, those A32X containerized a/c are only great when ...
Jump to post[/quote]IIRC, wasn't YYT-LHR seasonal anyway? I don't ever recall seeing AC A319s at LHR during the winter.[/quote] [/quote]As Dominion pointed out the A319 doesn't operate during the winter, the 763 that operates YHZ-LHR stops in YYT 2x week then continues on to LHR in the winter.[/quote] AC has op...
Jump to post[/quote]The 319s on YYT-LHR ended last October. AC over the winter was pit stopping AC860/861 on the 763 2x week at YYT.[/quote] The A319's are back on this route as of last week. The MAX is slated to start the end of April, however, talking to some pilots, they have stated that the YYT-LHR MAX star...
Jump to postInteresting video of a recent crosswind landing at RDU resulting in a wing tip strike. Should the pilot have gone around? http://wncn.com/2018/03/02/caught-on-video-jet-makes-rough-landing-at-rdu-during-high-winds/ I've watched this video numerous times now, and I don't see any wingtip strike. The ...
Jump to postNonetheless the remaining (8) get retired (2) in 2017, (5) in 2018 and (1) in 2019. It will be 2 in 2018, 3 in 2019 and the last 3 in 2020. FIN 683/C-FCAF was retired in 2017. Unfortunately, the info regarding FIN 683, C-FCAF is incorrect. FIN 683 was here in YYT last week flying AC860 YYT-LHR. And...
Jump to postYes, BA will tag your bags to your AC flight. AC has an interline agreement with BA and many other airlines that allows one airline to carry another's passengers and baggage. Your bags will be tagged all the way through to YVR, but whether or not you will have to claim them in LHR is something you'l...
Jump to postHmm, I've worked FIN459 a few times since repaint, and I've never noticed this. I'm not a huge fan of the new livery, however, it is slowly growing on me, but one of the thing's I think would have made it look better would have been to swoop the mask down over the nose a little more...something like...
Jump to postYHZ-YYT-YHZ has recently seen service by both the 763 and Q400. AC860 flies YHZ-YYT with the 763 and WS Encore does the same route arriving YYT shortly before AC.
Also, AC flies YYT-YHZ with 763 a/c while Porter leaves for the same route approx 20mins later.
Air Canada flies multiple daily flights between YYZ-YUL using WB a/c such as the 77W, 77L, 333 and 763. In the past, they also flew the L1011, 741/742/744 and A340. These are known as RapidAir flights and are great for commuters/business people flying between YYZ and YUL. Once the aircraft is in eit...
Jump to postYes they have made tons of money, after decades of government bail outs. Remember the $922 million bailout not so long ago? Also just because you're making tons of money does that mean that you should treat your customers like crap? Divorced from reality much? YOWza Go on why don’t you educate me i...
Jump to post"Elephant" is just model or brand name de-icing truck made by Vestergaard. There are many other kinds of de-icing vehicles as well. At AC where I work, we have de-icing trucks made by Global Ground Support. There are other manufacturers like Tempest, Scania, JBT Aerotech, ETC. As for the t...
Jump to postOld video by a whiny YouTube "celebrity." Since this gem was uploaded AC has made literally billions of dollars in profit. Next. YOWza Yes they have made tons of money, after decades of government bail outs. Remember the $922 million bailout not so long ago? Also just because you're makin...
Jump to postWe have heard many rumors at work from various sources including many AC pilots that as we receive the bulk of the MAX fleet and once the airport terminal expansion is completed, that YYT will be a base for MAX operations. We have heard of possible destinations including LIS, BCN/MAD, DUB, routes to...
Jump to postHi, a few have encountered this but it's been a while since I last heard of any issues. Does the image meet the size requirements? Email me the image and I'll upload it from our admin tools. Johnkrist(at)airliners.net Thanks, I was going to send you a pm, but I can't see where to attach the photo's...
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