Also, for how much longer will AC operate the 77L on the SYD route? Their 77L's are ageing. How routinely has AC retired widebodies by 15 years of age? By AC (or Lufthansa, or Delta) standards those are just broken-in. Not necessarily suggesting retiring the aircraft was just curious since AC uses ...
Jump to postNews release by AC yesterday (16/03), looks like they will be increasing and reconnecting some Australia/NZ flying. Sadly missing is MEL. YVR-SYD daily as of 1/05 YVR-BNE 4x as of 01/07 YVR-AKL 3x as of 10/11 https://aircanada.mediaroom.com/2022-03-16-GDay,-Kia-Ora-Air-Canada-Strategically-Expands-...
Jump to postHello there, I am planning on flying from Sydney to Portland OR via Vancouver and I have a question, first do I have to go through Canadian customs as I am trainsting? And also how does TSA Pre board work, do I have to show or visa? What is the process as it sounds very confusing. After you disemba...
Jump to postHypothetically, if they were to merge Swoop and Sunwing, let’s call it “Swing” as an example of a combined entity, they would probably keep the Sunwing level of service for sun destination flights and when “Swing” operates non sun destination flights, when operating domestically , they operate as S...
Jump to postHypothetically, if they were to merge Swoop and Sunwing, let’s call it “Swing” as an example of a combined entity, they would probably keep the Sunwing level of service for sun destination flights and when “Swing” operates non sun destination flights, when operating domestically , they operate as S...
Jump to postAs people have said, Sunwing are quite strong in the all inclusive vacation package market and this gives Westjet access to those resorts. Doesn't Sunwing own resorts in the way Allegiant does? They are also very winter heavy, I know Sunwing crew members who used to get seconded to work intra-Europe...
Jump to postAlthough nothing will ever beat the 744, the A350 is absolutely beautiful
Jump to postBelieve the Non-stop LHR-PER was crewed just by LON based cabin crew. Guess the same is now for the DRW flight. The internals obviously being crewed by Local Aussies . Sometimes the LHR would also operate LHR-SIN or even all the way to MEL/SYD on the 380s. But they would mix with Aussie based crew ...
Jump to posthuh??? what's your point? That if an airline agrees to fly a charter, they should accept an anything goes free for all orgy of Transport Canada violations, or that the 4 crew members didn't do enough to overpower this unruly crowd of 100+? The point here is actually many points. For one, you're tel...
Jump to postThen perhaps Sunwing perhaps just shouldn't operate a flight in the first place. huh??? what's your point? That if an airline agrees to fly a charter, they should accept an anything goes free for all orgy of Transport Canada violations, or that the 4 crew members didn't do enough to overpower this ...
Jump to postI almost always check a bag, I'm no longer willing to deal with the hassle of carry-on. All those people lining up at the gate 30 minutes before boarding? They're all preparing for the Great Luggage Compartment Battle. You can see the stress on their faces. I go straight to my seat, put my bag under...
Jump to postWas this a private charter…? Similar to chartering a Gulfstream etc. Yes but it's still unfair for the crew to have to endure this, especially during a pandemic. Then perhaps Sunwing perhaps just shouldn't operate a flight in the first place. huh??? what's your point? That if an airline agrees to f...
Jump to postAs obviously stupid the passengers behavoir was why does Transport Canada need to have an investigation? We'll end up paying a bunch of bureaucrats to end up saying poo poo to the passengers in around a year or so. Don't they have other priorities (actually setting up decent airport covid testing f...
Jump to postIn addition to Sunwing, Air Transat have now said they will also ban these party travellers from boarding a plane back to Canada: https://www.cp24.com/news/air-transat-blocking-quebec-influencers-from-boarding-its-planes-in-mexico-after-wild-in-flight-party-1.5728747 Have not heard yet about Air Can...
Jump to postQF heading to Rome from June to Oct per Qantas Newsroom just now With link from official site: https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-says-buongiorno-with-direct-flights-from-australia-to-italy/ With such large Italian/Greek populations I would imagine they would have served that r...
Jump to postPatrickZ80 wrote:They're not around anymore either. I liked their previous livery though, the purple was a strange color indeed.
Lufthansa - snooze Southwest - controversial perhaps but not a fan, in particular the previous gold livery. strange clash of colors Air China & China Eastern - dated and boring ANA - torn on this one, because they had it for so long and it's kind of iconic, but also incredibly bland when you thi...
Jump to postThe biggest disappointment with EVA is that they chose to omit Premium Economy on all their 787's, but it is still featured on their 777-300ER. I still haven't heard the reason why. This will be a big disappointment for many people from YVR. Speaking from experience, EVA's Premium Y is a very solid ...
Jump to postOut of curiosity, why is it somehow such an issue to pay for a cup of tea or coffee? If you want one, simply buy it and is entirely one's choice. I simply don't understand the expectation of some that everything should be free, and the 'shock' of actually being asked to having to put one's hands in...
Jump to postSwoop was based in Alberta from the get go and it is Flair that decided to move their HQ to YEG from YLW. They came knocking to play in the same arena . Enjoy the competition. I doubt AC will just standby and not respond if Flair begins to encroach on their areas as well. That is what Canadian Airl...
Jump to postProbably just threw it in there to see how many ex-YEG routes they can get Swoop to copy :P. The YEG wiki page is hilarious; seems F8’s aggression in AB has ticked off WS so badly, they’re throwing Swoop on to all types of routes (albeit starting a few months after F8, in many cases). I'm sure Swoo...
Jump to postWestJet would be the best fit of any Canadian airline to fly into BUR with a reasonable rate of success. They already have a strong leisure presence in SoCal (including WJ Vacations and their partnerships with Disney). Now with a true Business class on the Max's, they could cater to a good mix of H...
Jump to postMost of the 767's AA retired were between 21-25 years old, with the youngest ones over 17. With the huge downturn in demand during Covid, would parking aircraft that old and then going through the effort and expense to get them flying again be worth it, especially considering that Trans-Pacific traf...
Jump to postSo.....Eastern Airlines comes back as Eastern2.0 and then resurrects as Eastern 3.0 Then Wow resurrects as Play. Then Norwegian longhaul resurrects as Norse Atlantic. Then Jet Airways India announces they are coming back from the dead. And now Flybe resurrects as Flybe. I guess lesson is....if your ...
Jump to postNot a massive fan… looks a little low cost more than flag carrier to be honest. But I guess a better update, not sure how much it really represents the country. A lot of people are saying this but on the other hand, I'm not sure how Sabena's livery or colors in any way reflected the country either....
Jump to postairsmiles wrote:Which livery is even worse than this one then?
So....can anyone help me understand why an LCC would fly a route like that? Isn't Los Angeles to Tokyo a fairly high yield route?
Jump to postIn later years, I believe that connecting through CAN (on CZ) or PVG (on MU) had become quite popular, possibly even more than HKG or LHR as ways of getting to India, due to the cheap fares on those flights to China. I once saw a boarding queue for CZ that was mostly Indian. Not sure how fares on th...
Jump to postThe Canadian market bears all the hallmarks of a dysfunctional/ badly managed market. As an article published today puts it: There’s no reason a company charging $30 less shouldn’t be able to find consumers. The economic fundamentals are pretty straightforward on this point. If Flair charges less, ...
Jump to postThey have announced new Rouge routes YQB-YVR and YQB-YYC for Summer 2022: https://aircanada.mediaroom.com/2021-10 ... ext-Summer
Jump to postAdding the official Flair press release here of network and fleet growth plans https://storage.googleapis.com/flyflair-cms-prod-storage/Flair_Airlines_grows_schedule_33_5c278c55a0/Flair_Airlines_grows_schedule_33_5c278c55a0.pdf Wow....some surprises here. That a ULCC is directly going head to head a...
Jump to postI believe once upon a time AC and its competitor Canadian Airlines both had subsidiaries or affiliates with northern airlines (NWT Air/Canadian North)....but as mentioned, it's such a niche and specialty operation....the weather, gravel runways, etc. it's best left to Canadian North and Air Inuit to...
Jump to postAny data on how the Canadian airline industry is recovering? I wonder how the US flights are doing Not really hard data but AC VP saying that the biggest demand right now is Transatlantic & especially Middle East/India VFR traffic. Then, domestic. Far behind is Asia-Pacific which he expects wil...
Jump to postLast week I experienced a 70 minute delay on BER-ATH for no other reason than not enough ground staff. The arrival plane was on time but sat for over 30 minutes at gate because there was nobody to move the jetbridge. And this was the middle of the afternoon. Check-in was equally a disaster with only...
Jump to postI'm curious about the immigration logistics of something like this venture. From a crew standpoint it's pretty straightforward; the rotation is built as SIN-YVR (overnight) YVR-SEA-YVR turn (overnight) then go home day. The immigration/health issue seems murky to me. Do US bound pax deplane in YVR ...
Jump to postWas working for a US airline at YVR that normally handled a few narrowbodies per day and instead we had multiple 747 and DC10's from Asia that emergency landed and we had to offload and handle all the pax. Was absolutely crazy, don't have pics unfortunately because was working almost around the cloc...
Jump to postThe app version of FR24 showed civilian flight UA830 (30Aug) as having just flown over Afghan airspace. Apologies if clarified already but is that an error or are civilian flights still overflying?
Jump to postFor a starter: SAS is more Danish and Swedish than Norwegian. The biggest SAS hub by a big margin is Copenhagen, not Oslo. TUI Nordic is a Swedish holiday-charter airline, they are not Norwegian. They have a fleet of only 3 aircraft, and my understanding is that they do more work out of Sweden and ...
Jump to postI just found out about the upcoming airline Flyr (https://simpleflying.com/flyr-start-up-route-network/) which has me wondering......How many airlines can a country that size sustain? SAS Wideroe Norwegian TUI Nordic and now there 2 planned Norwegian startups.... Norsk Atlantic Flyr ...and that does...
Jump to postSure, but I am wondering about the future market potential of the Boeing 787-8. When it first came out, I thought it would be the main replacement for the older 767's or A332's. Basically the smallest size widebody for routes that don't merit anything larger, but with extra range so that it could a...
Jump to postseahawks7757 wrote:Here is Flair on its delivery flight today, working on uploading the AS shots next.
If/when the borders open probably mid to late summer, I don't see much being added or restored outside the main routes from places like LAX, New York, etc. A lot won't return until summer 2022, IMO. YVR for example gets a lot of summer traffic that feeds cruise ship departures but since all cruise s...
Jump to postSo you've had the vaccine, you are fit and healthy yet you want to carry on wearing a mask? I will be the guy across the aisle who is pointing and laughing at you. Are you sure you would not be safer just staying in your house with the doors and windows shut? Are you not terrified of being in a roa...
Jump to postKL serve CAN regularly and AY serve seasonal before CoVID If you are referring to KLM, they have never operated scheduled services to CAN in their 102 years of existence. China Southern however, has operated CAN-AMS daily for many years. Currently CZ operates only 1x weekly with A380 due to COVID. ...
Jump to postInteresting. Busiest airport in the world and yet not served by a single North American airline and hardly any European ones either (even pre-Covid)
Jump to postThe idea of sitting in a crowded plane, or being in any crowded indoor place, especially in winter with people sneezing and coughing their flus and cold germs around me.....? Yeah I think I'll keep my masks handy when Covid ends. I'm certainly going to be more aware of the gems on shared and commonl...
Jump to postCanada banning all passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/flight ... -1.5997880
I always thought it was about connection traffic. For example, both AA and UA fly from Milwaukee to Chicago. Certainly under 100 miles. If you live in Milwaukee and are visiting your mom in Chicago is it worth it? Driving to the airport, parking, shuttle to airport, line up for security, waiting, b...
Jump to postI always thought it was about connection traffic. For example, both AA and UA fly from Milwaukee to Chicago. Certainly under 100 miles. If you live in Milwaukee and are visiting your mom in Chicago is it worth it? Driving to the airport, parking, shuttle to airport, line up for security, waiting, bo...
Jump to postGlad to see the AA/UA trend didn't become the standard. The streaming to app selection was often disappointing; You had to choose whether to use the table to eat or prop up your tablet. Those of us that multitask (work on laptop/using the inflight wifi/watch a movie/read an E-book) had to pick which...
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