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Aresxerexade wrote:How is Air Canada managing with the omicron outbreak? Are most flights operating as scheduled? All the majors in the US are gripping with sick calls and staff shortages.
ExMilitaryEng wrote:From the article:
Withnessed by Kathleen Scherf, a professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. was also on the flight:
“Two Russian coaches were in business class across from me. I noticed right away it was tough for the flight attendants because they had to be told to sit down, not to vape, to stop playing their really loud, hard rock music on iPhones, like out loud, not with any earplugs.”
If the above is accurate, those risks of being banned from flying AC...
I would not want them in my flight anyways.
EADSYABSOB73857 wrote:In 2019 AC announced daily YYC-BOS. The flight never materialized (like many other) due to the pandemic. Any chance of this flight coming to fruition?
Thenoflyzone wrote:EADSYABSOB73857 wrote:In 2019 AC announced daily YYC-BOS. The flight never materialized (like many other) due to the pandemic. Any chance of this flight coming to fruition?
You're probably going to see AC resume YVR-BOS before you see them launch YYC-BOS. And the former hasn't operated since Sept 2019. AC has YVR-BOS bookable as of May 19 though. This being said, with the lack of Asian flights out of YVR, there is a very real chance this route doesn't materialize, just like it didn't last summer.
whywhyzee wrote:https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/air-canada-suspend-flights-caribbean-and-mexico
Unsubstantiated, but if true...wow.
Edit: for context, article claims AC is stopping flights to Mexico/Caribbean effective Jan 31 for 90 days.
This matches exactly what happened last year:
https://aircanada.mediaroom.com/2021-01 ... on-Efforts
Article is likely a misquote.
Skywatcher wrote:Am I wrong to think that more people than ever want to get out of Canada due to the increasing covid restrictions?
I for one hope that the stopping flights rumour is false.
I'd be surprised if AC leaves YVR-BOS to B6 without a fight, I'd imagine the odds of the route resuming are fairly high.
Aresxerexade wrote:How is Air Canada managing with the omicron outbreak? Are most flights operating as scheduled? All the majors in the US are gripping with sick calls and staff shortages.
WildcatYXU wrote:Aresxerexade wrote:How is Air Canada managing with the omicron outbreak? Are most flights operating as scheduled? All the majors in the US are gripping with sick calls and staff shortages.
One anecdotal data point: My tomorrow's YXU-YYZ-YWG flight was cancelled due to covid caused constraints. At that was AC's explanation. Expertflyer is showing zero availability across the board for tomorrow.
I was rebooked to Wednesday. Hope this time I get there.
WildcatYXU wrote:Aresxerexade wrote:How is Air Canada managing with the omicron outbreak? Are most flights operating as scheduled? All the majors in the US are gripping with sick calls and staff shortages.
One anecdotal data point: My tomorrow's YXU-YYZ-YWG flight was cancelled due to covid caused constraints. At that was AC's explanation. Expertflyer is showing zero availability across the board for tomorrow.
I was rebooked to Wednesday. Hope this time I get there.
Dominion301 wrote:At the rate you're going, it would be faster to drive...or take the train!
CrewBunk wrote:I see the 0605 flight out of YXU cancelled. The 1005 flight has one open seat, the rest are full. The YYZ-YWG flights all have about a dozen open seats.
The “Covid constraints” are due to lack of crew both at Air Canada and Jazz. Crew are advised to isolate if they have been in contact with a Covid positive individual. Perhaps this is being too cautious, as these crew members may not being displaying any symptoms …. but presently, that is policy.
It would appear, the issue with your YXU-YWG journey is the YXU-YYZ leg. Perhaps road transport to YYZ might be the best bet. Either driven by you, or request ground transport from AC.
CrewBunk wrote:Dominion301 wrote:At the rate you're going, it would be faster to drive...or take the train!
I recall many years ago, as a young lad (and travelling as a non-rev) flying YYZ-YXU-YQG-YWG on a Viscount with my Dad, as the nonstop DC-8 was full. That sentiment was uttered more than once!
AWNP wrote:Looks like they are suspending some after all:
https://vacations.aircanada.com/en/travel-advisories
TEMPORARY DESTINATION SUSPENSION
January 5, 2022
In light of the current pandemic context, Air Canada will be suspending some flights to Sun destinations from January 24 until April 30, 2022.
Suspended destinations include Antigua, Aruba, Samaná, Curaçao, Exuma, Grenada, Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, Bermuda, Grand Cayman, Havana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
yyztpa2 wrote:AWNP wrote:Looks like they are suspending some after all:
https://vacations.aircanada.com/en/travel-advisories
TEMPORARY DESTINATION SUSPENSION
January 5, 2022
In light of the current pandemic context, Air Canada will be suspending some flights to Sun destinations from January 24 until April 30, 2022.
Suspended destinations include Antigua, Aruba, Samaná, Curaçao, Exuma, Grenada, Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, Bermuda, Grand Cayman, Havana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Understand the current situation but through to end of April is surprising.
Thomaas wrote:They are simply reducing their less-than-daily sun destinations to route passengers looking for a warm getaway to more volume heavy destinations. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the YOW, YQB and YHZ Florida and Caribbean flying be rerouted through YYZ and YUL.
Thomaas wrote:yyztpa2 wrote:AWNP wrote:Looks like they are suspending some after all:
https://vacations.aircanada.com/en/travel-advisories
TEMPORARY DESTINATION SUSPENSION
January 5, 2022
In light of the current pandemic context, Air Canada will be suspending some flights to Sun destinations from January 24 until April 30, 2022.
Suspended destinations include Antigua, Aruba, Samaná, Curaçao, Exuma, Grenada, Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, Bermuda, Grand Cayman, Havana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Understand the current situation but through to end of April is surprising.
They are simply reducing their less-than-daily sun destinations to route passengers looking for a warm getaway to more volume heavy destinations. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the YOW, YQB and YHZ Florida and Caribbean flying be rerouted through YYZ and YUL.
Skywatcher wrote:Since I really want out of Canada this winter I had done a thorough analysis of what was available via AC southward from my home market (YUL) about a week ago.
I've just updated it to make sure my preferences are still there.
Ft.Lauderdale (4 daily),Cancun (2 daily) and Honolulu (2 per week) have remained unchanged but virtually everything else has been pushed out. All markets are still served and peak service is still there but now begins later (i.e. service increases have been delayed, much of it until early March instead of earlier).
At least my favourites (Nassau/Barbados/Honolulu) are still there although Nassau now begins Feb.26 instead of Jan.16.
All in all it could have been worse.
Thomaas wrote:Skywatcher wrote:Since I really want out of Canada this winter I had done a thorough analysis of what was available via AC southward from my home market (YUL) about a week ago.
I've just updated it to make sure my preferences are still there.
Ft.Lauderdale (4 daily),Cancun (2 daily) and Honolulu (2 per week) have remained unchanged but virtually everything else has been pushed out. All markets are still served and peak service is still there but now begins later (i.e. service increases have been delayed, much of it until early March instead of earlier).
At least my favourites (Nassau/Barbados/Honolulu) are still there although Nassau now begins Feb.26 instead of Jan.16.
All in all it could have been worse.
I have my doubts on whether YUL-HNL will actually operate for the winter. It operated for a few weeks in December I believe before being suspended till mid-February, and that was before the Omicron variant threw a wrench at AC’s winter schedule.
Thomaas wrote:I have my doubts on whether YUL-HNL will actually operate for the winter. It operated for a few weeks in December I believe before being suspended till mid-February, and that was before the Omicron variant threw a wrench at AC’s winter schedule.
runway23 wrote:Thomaas wrote:They are simply reducing their less-than-daily sun destinations to route passengers looking for a warm getaway to more volume heavy destinations. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the YOW, YQB and YHZ Florida and Caribbean flying be rerouted through YYZ and YUL.
AC has pulled the plug on PUJ flying from YOW, YQB, YHZ. First 2 end 20 Jan, YHZ 16 Jan.
YHZ-MCO suspended 8 Jan to 26 Feb then 3x weekly in March. Similar story for YHZ-TPA.
YOW-FLL is actually showing an increase from 3x weekly to 4x in Feb and 5x in March. YOW-CUN goes to 4x weekly in March. YOW-PUJ ends 20 Jan.
For sure, if AC is short staffed and/or predicts a growing and high number of staff calling in sick then it's a wise strategy to funnel as much as you can through YYZ/YUL.
Dominion301 wrote:
Does that mean at least for now like YHZ, YOW-TPA/MCO are also unaffected? Interesting that FLL and CUN increase. YOW-FLL on AC is traditionally daily in 'normal' times and YOW-CUN I believe was 4x weekly pre-pandemic.
runway23 wrote:Dominion301 wrote:
Does that mean at least for now like YHZ, YOW-TPA/MCO are also unaffected? Interesting that FLL and CUN increase. YOW-FLL on AC is traditionally daily in 'normal' times and YOW-CUN I believe was 4x weekly pre-pandemic.
Sorry, meant to post them.
YOW-TPA last flight Jan 8, resumes Feb 25, 2x weekly from then until seasonal suspension on April 17.
YOW-MCO 2x weekly until Jan 16, then resumes Feb 26, 3x weekly. Also suspended on April 17.
runway23 wrote:
YUL-HNL still operates this coming Saturday then is suspended until end of Feb. I could have sworn a week ago or so that I saw the route being suspended until April.
Thomaas wrote:
I have my doubts on whether YUL-HNL will actually operate for the winter. It operated for a few weeks in December I believe before being suspended till mid-February, and that was before the Omicron variant threw a wrench at AC’s winter schedule.
shoelessjoe wrote:Final day of DH3 ops at Jazz (AC Express) today.
Quick look at the schedule it appears on the final day they operated London, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Windsor (YYZ) and Bagotville (YUL). As of now the final operation appears to be AC8436 YTS-YYZ operated by C-GKTA (the oldest frame in the fleet) which over the past several months has lost much of it's paint. Looking at the "active" frames on Planespotters, a couple already rotated to YYB during the past week, where they presumably will remain pending sale or reconfig for cargo ops at Voyageur.
End of an era.
9252fly wrote:shoelessjoe wrote:Final day of DH3 ops at Jazz (AC Express) today.
Quick look at the schedule it appears on the final day they operated London, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Windsor (YYZ) and Bagotville (YUL). As of now the final operation appears to be AC8436 YTS-YYZ operated by C-GKTA (the oldest frame in the fleet) which over the past several months has lost much of it's paint. Looking at the "active" frames on Planespotters, a couple already rotated to YYB during the past week, where they presumably will remain pending sale or reconfig for cargo ops at Voyageur.
End of an era.
Indeed its been a long run the the DH3, more than 30 years. Speaking of C-GKTA, the registration takes it back to the Time Air days.
shoelessjoe wrote:Final day of DH3 ops at Jazz (AC Express) today.
Quick look at the schedule it appears on the final day they operated London, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Windsor (YYZ) and Bagotville (YUL). As of now the final operation appears to be AC8436 YTS-YYZ operated by C-GKTA (the oldest frame in the fleet) which over the past several months has lost much of it's paint. Looking at the "active" frames on Planespotters, a couple already rotated to YYB during the past week, where they presumably will remain pending sale or reconfig for cargo ops at Voyageur.
End of an era.
Vio wrote:shoelessjoe wrote:Final day of DH3 ops at Jazz (AC Express) today.
Quick look at the schedule it appears on the final day they operated London, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Windsor (YYZ) and Bagotville (YUL). As of now the final operation appears to be AC8436 YTS-YYZ operated by C-GKTA (the oldest frame in the fleet) which over the past several months has lost much of it's paint. Looking at the "active" frames on Planespotters, a couple already rotated to YYB during the past week, where they presumably will remain pending sale or reconfig for cargo ops at Voyageur.
End of an era.
I was lucky enough to fly the last flight out of London (YXU-YYZ) on the 9th. The actual last revenue flight with pax was Timmins - Toronto a few hours later. The Dash is a great aircraft. The Q400 is here to stay for many more years. An awesome airplane in my opinion.
Vio wrote:shoelessjoe wrote:Final day of DH3 ops at Jazz (AC Express) today.
Quick look at the schedule it appears on the final day they operated London, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Windsor (YYZ) and Bagotville (YUL). As of now the final operation appears to be AC8436 YTS-YYZ operated by C-GKTA (the oldest frame in the fleet) which over the past several months has lost much of it's paint. Looking at the "active" frames on Planespotters, a couple already rotated to YYB during the past week, where they presumably will remain pending sale or reconfig for cargo ops at Voyageur.
End of an era.
I was lucky enough to fly the last flight out of London (YXU-YYZ) on the 9th. The actual last revenue flight with pax was Timmins - Toronto a few hours later. The Dash is a great aircraft. The Q400 is here to stay for many more years. An awesome airplane in my opinion.
m1m2 wrote:Vio wrote:shoelessjoe wrote:Final day of DH3 ops at Jazz (AC Express) today.
Quick look at the schedule it appears on the final day they operated London, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Windsor (YYZ) and Bagotville (YUL). As of now the final operation appears to be AC8436 YTS-YYZ operated by C-GKTA (the oldest frame in the fleet) which over the past several months has lost much of it's paint. Looking at the "active" frames on Planespotters, a couple already rotated to YYB during the past week, where they presumably will remain pending sale or reconfig for cargo ops at Voyageur.
End of an era.
I was lucky enough to fly the last flight out of London (YXU-YYZ) on the 9th. The actual last revenue flight with pax was Timmins - Toronto a few hours later. The Dash is a great aircraft. The Q400 is here to stay for many more years. An awesome airplane in my opinion.
After many years of working on the Dash 8 (100 and 300) I'll miss them. It was a great airplane to work on, granted you could never come out of the nacelles clean, but it was small enough to be able to work on alone. It was also awesome for engine runs, no FADEC to protect you, you had to keep an eye on it and make sure you didn't do anything it would bite you in the arse for. As you say, Vio, the Q4 will have to carry the torch from now on.
As a side note, 317 flew the last flight, and I'm told that one was the first production -300 built, I know guys who worked at the factory. Served us all well, reliably carried probably a couple of million passengers in it's lifetime.
Skywatcher wrote:DeHavilland essentially gone. Bombardier essentially gone. Sigh.
yyztpa2 wrote:m1m2 wrote:Vio wrote:
I was lucky enough to fly the last flight out of London (YXU-YYZ) on the 9th. The actual last revenue flight with pax was Timmins - Toronto a few hours later. The Dash is a great aircraft. The Q400 is here to stay for many more years. An awesome airplane in my opinion.
After many years of working on the Dash 8 (100 and 300) I'll miss them. It was a great airplane to work on, granted you could never come out of the nacelles clean, but it was small enough to be able to work on alone. It was also awesome for engine runs, no FADEC to protect you, you had to keep an eye on it and make sure you didn't do anything it would bite you in the arse for. As you say, Vio, the Q4 will have to carry the torch from now on.
As a side note, 317 flew the last flight, and I'm told that one was the first production -300 built, I know guys who worked at the factory. Served us all well, reliably carried probably a couple of million passengers in it's lifetime.
Many of the flights seem to have been taken over by the CRJ2 and not the Q400. Did AC bring back additional CRJ?
What's the plan when volumes come back? Markets like Sudbury only at 2 return trips a day.