02-08-2015, 09:48 PM
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#641
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
The Calgary airport in its current state was really sad this week.
To start with, there is one crappy gas station tucked away to refill your rental car.
Then I got stuck in the security line on Tuesday for Air Canada. They were renovating it so they had it down to two lanes through security. The line was so long that there was a stream of people being escorted or pushing their way to the front to avoid missing flights. That just made the rest of us wait even longer.
I can't wait for the renos to be complete.
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NEXUS is the best thing ever invented for people who travel even semi-frequently. Will get even better if the promised dedicated screeners and privileges for trusted travelers comes about.
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02-10-2015, 07:09 AM
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#642
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Yesterday was the last scheduled day for British Airways operating the new 787 Dreamliner on the LHR-YYC flight. As of today it reverts back to the old 767-300.
Eventually though if BA stays in the YYC market they will have no 763's left (they are phasing them out) and the 787 will come back.
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02-10-2015, 07:43 AM
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#643
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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NEXUS is the greatest thing, but it's a pain at YYC for the following reasons:
- machines are always broken at YYC
- the machines at the US customs entrance area are too complicated. I can't tell you how many times people just sit there when they need to hit buttons
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02-10-2015, 08:08 AM
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#644
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyler
NEXUS is the greatest thing, but it's a pain at YYC for the following reasons:
- machines are always broken at YYC
- the machines at the US customs entrance area are too complicated. I can't tell you how many times people just sit there when they need to hit buttons
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My sister's family has Nexus, and on a recent family trip, it took them longer than us regular folk to get through customs at YYC because of the machines. But they still ended up breezing past us in the shorter security line.
I don't do a lot of travelling for work anymore, and although most of it was domestic anyway, it would have been worth getting Nexus even just for the short security lines.
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02-10-2015, 08:57 AM
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#645
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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When the Machines are broken I've just walked through and been waved right up to the US border guard at the first booth. What are people doing that takes them so long?
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03-05-2015, 08:46 AM
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#646
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Yesterday WestJet announced the schedule for their YYC-Hawaii flights with their new 767's. This is for next winter:
WS 1860 YYC 0730 - 1151 HNL 763 1
WS 1860 YYC 0825 - 1246 HNL 763 5
WS 1861 HNL 1330 - 2307 YYC 763 1
WS 1861 HNL 1425 - 2359 YYC 763 5
WS 1850 YYC 0830 - 1246 OGG 763 1
WS 1850 YYC 0730 - 1146 OGG 763 456
WS 1851 OGG 1430 - 2357 YYC 763 27
WS 1851 OGG 1330 - 2257 YYC 763 46
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03-30-2015, 10:19 AM
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#647
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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The Airport Authority is reporting to City Council this morning.
The new terminal has been pushed back from Fall of this year to Fall 2016.
Ouch.
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03-30-2015, 10:49 AM
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#648
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: The Windy City
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Hey Bigtime, did you hear what the root cause for the stall is?
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03-30-2015, 11:24 AM
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#649
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Nope, in his presentation CEO Garth Atkinson made no mention as to why.
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03-31-2015, 01:35 AM
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#650
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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If anything, he seems to imply it may or may not have been the expected timeline for quite some time... they just conveniently didn't mention it.
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03-31-2015, 07:09 AM
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#652
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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It's a minor inconvenience of a light right now, but it sure would be nice if the airport would just get an interchange up at Barlow and Airport Road (intersection visible at the top left of the above pic).
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03-31-2015, 09:05 AM
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#653
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
It's a minor inconvenience of a light right now, but it sure would be nice if the airport would just get an interchange up at Barlow and Airport Road (intersection visible at the top left of the above pic).
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I'm actually a fan of traffic circles. How well would one work for this intersection?
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04-02-2015, 12:52 PM
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#654
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
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For a brand new terminal, that doesn't seem like a lot of gates, unless I'm off my rocker...
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04-02-2015, 12:59 PM
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#655
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stealth22
For a brand new terminal, that doesn't seem like a lot of gates, unless I'm off my rocker...
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There are supposed to be 22 new gates in the new terminal. Based on the renderings on the Airport's website, it looks like each of those arms will be able to handle two smaller planes at a time (or one large one).
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04-02-2015, 01:04 PM
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#656
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Originally Posted by D as in David
I'm actually a fan of traffic circles. How well would one work for this intersection?
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I would think that in an area like an airport it would be best to have roads as simple as possible since you are dealing with people from all over the world in a new area.
I know traffic circles are not rocket science, well not for most people, but keep it simple is what I would say.
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04-02-2015, 01:09 PM
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#657
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
There are supposed to be 22 new gates in the new terminal. Based on the renderings on the Airport's website, it looks like each of those arms will be able to handle two smaller planes at a time (or one large one).
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That makes more sense, thanks! 22 gates sounds more realistic, lol.
(Is that 22 gates including the 'double jetway' feature? Or could the terminal potentially take up to 44 narrow-bodies?)
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04-02-2015, 03:24 PM
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#658
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Inclusive.
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04-20-2015, 07:05 AM
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#659
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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From user Johnny Aussie over on SSP, looks like Rouge is deferring their new YYC-YHM (Hamilton) flight that was scheduled to start this summer:
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Saw something on flyertalk then this on YHM's site.
http://flyhamilton.ca/news/air-canad...erred-to-2016/
So rouge is deferring YYC-YHM until May 2016 due to "fleet constraints" per an Air Canada spokesperson.
Hmmmmmm... Is that a nice way to say.... "bookings not meeting expectations so we are going to utilise the aircraft that was being allocated to this route elsewhere.."
Sorry but for a route that was to commence in just over two months any "fleet constraints" would have been ironed out well before now.
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04-20-2015, 12:07 PM
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#660
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In the Sin Bin
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Landed on the new runway yesterday and I have to say it provides an awesome view of downtown. New terminal looks great too.
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