Re: Canadian Airport 2017 Year-End Passenger Stats

bmacleod wrote:

I was referring to airport traffic.

Private Plane Crash In The Magdalen Islands (YGR)

Indeed, lots of holes lined up pretty firmly in that fromage.... What awful circumstances for the surviving family members. A family wiped out just like that. RIP.

RE: WestJet Seeks More Lift From Boeing, Airbus

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VCEflyboy" class="quote" target="_blank">VCEflyboy</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>They are playing with fire. WestJet ev...

RE: Chilling Video Of Chopper Crash In Hawaii

Yes, I'm being both indignant, <acronym title="Anderson - Regional (County) (AND / KAND), USA - South Carolina">AND</acronym> ignorant..,  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/sarcastic.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> I think maybe, just maybe, you'll...

RE: North Korea's First Airshow

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NWAROOSTER" class="quote" target="_blank">NWAROOSTER</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i maybe="" the="" world="" will="" get...

RE: Chilling Video Of Chopper Crash In Hawaii

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ikramerica" class="quote" target="_blank">ikramerica</a> (<a href="#34" class="quote">Reply 34</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Are you s...

Hainan Airlines Comes To YYC

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/longhauler" class="quote" target="_blank">longhauler</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i> All requests have been denied, as hav...

Hainan Airlines Comes To YYC

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/longhauler" class="quote" target="_blank">longhauler</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i> Air Canada has been very public about...

RE: Call For U.S. ATC Reform

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Flighty" class="quote" target="_blank">Flighty</a> (<a href="#65" class="quote">Reply 65</a>):<br/><i> Amen. There is a long history and a long ...

RE: Petition To Rename YYC

Chris Hadfield international...?

RE: "Taylor Changed Air Canada For The Better"

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/longhauler" class="quote" target="_blank">longhauler</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i> You do understand the difference thou...

RE: F16 And Cessna Collide Near CHS

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/copter808" class="quote" target="_blank">copter808</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i> Are you telling me that your C-150 is...

RE: WestJet Passengers Injured During Evacuation

Lo and behold. Another <acronym title="WestJet (Canada)">WS</acronym> flight being diverted right now to <acronym title="Calgary - International (YYC / CYYC), Canada - Alberta">YYC</acronym> due to a bomb threat. Disgruntled ex-employee? This is getting ridiculous. (Well, truly, even one bomb threat...

RE: WestJet's Tartan Design

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/by738" class="quote" target="_blank">by738</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i> some flights ex <acronym title="Halifax - Rob...

RE: Edmonton - New Connection To Europe Commences

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thenoflyzone" class="quote" target="_blank">thenoflyzone</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Thank...

RE: Edmonton - New Connection To Europe Commences

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thenoflyzone" class="quote" target="_blank">thenoflyzone</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table b...

RE: Edmonton - New Connection To Europe Commences

Congratulations to the city of Edmonton for attracting a new flight, and especially to <acronym title="KLM Royal Dutch Airlines">KL</acronym> for sticking to their revised start date, despite the economic uncertainty which still exists in the province of Alberta. I hope they're planning long-term gi...

RE: Surprise Birth On Air Canada YYC-NRT Flight

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/longhauler" class="quote" target="_blank">longhauler</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i> And how would you know that? Do you...

RE: Surprise Birth On Air Canada YYC-NRT Flight

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VCEflyboy" class="quote" target="_blank">VCEflyboy</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i> What's surprising to me is that this ro...

RE: Girl With Autism Causes Diversion Of UA1535

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ikramerica" class="quote" target="_blank">ikramerica</a> (<a href="#103" class="quote">Reply 103</a>):<br/><i>This is life. Life isn't always ea...

RE: Girl With Autism Causes Diversion Of UA1535

A lot of poeple pay great lip service to feeling "really sorry for the girl and her family" when in reality they know damn well they would feel truly irked, uncomfortable, and put out had they been seated within a few rows of this situation. "Why couldn't these people be on another flight? I just wa...

RE: Canadian Airport Passenger Numbers In 2014

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thenoflyzone" class="quote" target="_blank">thenoflyzone</a> (<a href="#71" class="quote">Reply 71</a>):<br/><i> Indeed, and always with officia...

RE: Canadian Airport Passenger Numbers In 2014

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thenoflyzone" class="quote" target="_blank">thenoflyzone</a> (<a href="#67" class="quote">Reply 67</a>):<br/><i> By my records... 2.3 million in...

RE: Canadian Airport Passenger Numbers In 2014

Re-post, final(ish) standings: <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cyeg66" class="quote" target="_blank">cyeg66</a> (<a href="#59" class="quote">Reply 59</a>):<br/><i>Totals for 20...

RE: Canadian Airport Passenger Numbers In 2014

^Oh no, not this discussion again...
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RE: Canadian Airport Passenger Numbers In 2014

Totals for 2014: <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym>: 2013: 36,107,306 -- 2014: 38,571,961 (+6.8%) <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym>: 2013: 17,971,883 -- 2014: ...

RE: First 737 Repainted Into New KLM Livery

It's a blue orca. That said, my wife and I teach our kids that if you don't like something, rather than saying " I hate" or "I don't like it", we'd prefer that they'd say something "isn't my favourite".  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" width="1...

RE: YYC Being Overbuilt?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/chrisp390" class="quote" target="_blank">chrisp390</a> (<a href="#100" class="quote">Reply 100</a>):<br/><i> Why did <acronym title="Lufthansa (...

RE: YYC Being Overbuilt?

Personally, I find it amusing that a larger proportion of flights to/from <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> are in the <acronym title="Royal Jordanian">RJ</acronym>-class (and smaller) size categories than they are from <acronym title="C...

RE: YYC Being Overbuilt?

Picked up on that, huh?  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> I figure my assertions are every bit as valid as all those being put forth on this thread so far, but without including my own personal, thus meaningles...

RE: YYC Being Overbuilt?

YYC is being overbuilt. <acronym title="Calgary - International (YYC / CYYC), Canada - Alberta">YYC</acronym> could never sustain a flight to <acronym title="Beijing - Capital (PEK / ZBAA), China">PEK</acronym>. <acronym title="Calgary - International (YYC / CYYC), Canada - Alberta">YYC</acronym> ma...

RE: AC Express Incident At YEG

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/infiniti329" class="quote" target="_blank">infiniti329</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>How did the crew know they had a blo...

RE: CX May Start Calgary In 2016

<img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/>  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/>  <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio...

RE: ORD Overtakes ATL For World's Busiest (movements)

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SESGDL" class="quote" target="_blank">SESGDL</a> (<a href="#48" class="quote">Reply 48</a>):<br/><i> I think many underestimate how massive <acr...

RE: YYC - MEX Direct - Is There A Case For This Route?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Mexico is a big nation, similar to Canada.</...

RE: Mid-air Collision Scare

Sensationalized rendition of an otherwise mundane circumstance, perhaps, or just poorly written so as not to have properly conveyed the level of danger in that particular situation. Dunno. We can speculate, and yet we'll never know. TCAS is indeed good in these sorts of situations, less so in approa...

RE: CX Cargo To YYC Calgary

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VCEflyboy" class="quote" target="_blank">VCEflyboy</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i> My guess is this service is heavily s...

RE: YYC 4th Runway Opening June 28th

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/whiteguy" class="quote" target="_blank">whiteguy</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>Nothing has changed with the arrivals in...

RE: YYC 4th Runway Opening June 28th

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/A346Dude" class="quote" target="_blank">A346Dude</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>The runway's been open for 13 minutes, w...

RE: YYC 4th Runway Opening June 28th

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/YYZatcboy" class="quote" target="_blank">YYZatcboy</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i> Ok. Things changed then. (Last time I...

RE: YYC 4th Runway Opening June 28th

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/YYZatcboy" class="quote" target="_blank">YYZatcboy</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>According to the tower controller I sp...

Istanbul New Airport Groundbreaking June 7

 <img src="/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/eek.gif" alt="Wow!"/>  <img src="/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/eek.gif" alt="Wow!"/>  <img src="/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/eek.gif" alt="Wow!"/>  <img src="/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/eek.gif" alt="Wow!"/>  <img s...

RE: WestJet Does It Again....

Exploitative, perhaps a little bit, but it doesn't bother me so much in the sense that when watching the video, I didn't give a flying foo-foo as to who was providing this gentleman's respite. The cornerstone of the video was the fact that this poor shlub got a week off (with pay) to visit the other...

RE: Air Canada's First 787 To Be Handed Over...

Perhaps I'm asking a rather obvious question, but why <acronym title="Halifax - Robert L Stanfield International (YHZ / CYHZ), Canada - Nova Scotia">YHZ</acronym>? Has it been customary to keep it relatively close to (maintenance) home while fully anticipated bugs rear their ugly heads...? I thought...

RE: WestJet Encore To YQB In March 2015.

I think this a/c swap is a natural. More frequency and more economical. Flight time will probably not increase by more than 10 mins. This route is an example of exactly why Encore acquired these planes. They're quiet, comfortable, and quick, despite what some people (one, namely) say. This is a good...

RE: French Pilots Union Announce 28 Days Of Strikes

French airline pilots + ATS, in perpetual motion of picking up gun, aiming at foot, and pulling trigger. That about sums it up. I'm surprised there's any consumer confidence remaining within their clientèle.

RE: YYC Becomes Third Busiest In Canada

...and I'm sure that it stung. To go to the bizarre and extreme-ish efforts of explaining "the why" they slipped to fourth place, by regurgitating the obvious, which has been repeated here too many times to count, supports that they're irked by the notion and people (media) have been asking question...

RE: Changes To The Air Cargo Market In Canada

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rampbro" class="quote" target="_blank">rampbro</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i> And yes, while I will probably miss the n...

RE: YYC Becomes Third Busiest In Canada

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/threepoint" class="quote" target="_blank">threepoint</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>My observations have nothing to do w...

RE: YYC Becomes Third Busiest In Canada

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thenoflyzone" class="quote" target="_blank">thenoflyzone</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>Then again, in 2011, it was <acr...