02-04-2025, 07:40 PM
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#2981
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Scoring Winger
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Winter storm disrupts flights at Calgary International Airport, delays and cancellations expected
https://globalnews.ca/video/10996484...ions-expected/
On the morning news, Michael King said that YYC was the #2 airport in the world right now for flight delays
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02-04-2025, 10:01 PM
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#2982
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by Acey
That is almost surely not the reason, given that 99.5% of the time the plane is towed to the hangar and not taxiied.
With the B gates being closed for hail, they very often fall behind on tows... and the weather is unleashing havoc on equipment. Nobody "forgot" anything, but it's not unusual for pilots to throw their own crews under the bus.
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The weather wasn't bad when I took the flight.
It wasn't just the pilot, the front desk also said the same thing.
And whatever, they used the word taxi.
WJ sure as hell were very, very specific about why my flight back was delayed. I don't think "but reasons" does the job anymore with the gov't.
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02-04-2025, 10:29 PM
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#2983
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I'm sure you're right that the plane was late getting released from the hanger. I just bet that nobody knew that that specific plane was supposed to be used for that flight until just prior, after the original plane was swapped out 3 times. The tail you likely flew on wasn't even plan b in this case.
Watching Encore play musical Q's is almost impressive some days
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02-05-2025, 09:11 AM
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#2984
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Originally Posted by btimbit
I'm sure you're right that the plane was late getting released from the hanger. I just bet that nobody knew that that specific plane was supposed to be used for that flight until just prior, after the original plane was swapped out 3 times. The tail you likely flew on wasn't even plan b in this case.
Watching Encore play musical Q's is almost impressive some days
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Wrong kind of tail 
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02-05-2025, 09:39 AM
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#2985
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Pilots generally aren't sure why their plane is or isn't there yet. They just know what gate to go to and what tail is supposed to be there
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And sometimes not even that.
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02-13-2025, 05:37 PM
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#2987
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#1 Goaltender
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That's awesome!
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02-13-2025, 05:55 PM
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The Westjet part is a tad surprising considering Air Canada and Lufthansa are both parts of Star Alliance
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02-13-2025, 06:29 PM
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#2989
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Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
The Westjet part is a tad surprising considering Air Canada and Lufthansa are both parts of Star Alliance
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I would imagine a lot of it had to do with the Westjet CEO's longtime position as a Lufthansa group exec before coming to Calgary.
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02-14-2025, 09:27 AM
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#2990
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Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
The Westjet part is a tad surprising considering Air Canada and Lufthansa are both parts of Star Alliance
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15 year contract for all that work from WestJet to Technik, just good business. I'd also assume we'll see other airline tails here getting work done. It is somewhat mentioned in WestJet's press release:
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The Calgary Airport Authority (The Authority) is proud to have signed a long-term lease agreement with Lufthansa Technik for an engine maintenance and test cell facility that will serve, amongst others, WestJet as a cornerstone customer.
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02-14-2025, 05:38 PM
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#2991
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
The Westjet part is a tad surprising considering Air Canada and Lufthansa are both parts of Star Alliance
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Matters a lot less for things like maintenance. Delta has a huge maintenance operation that they do for other airlines not part of SkyTeam, including the now defunct Calgary-based Lynx Air who still owe Delta money.
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02-16-2025, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
15 year contract for all that work from WestJet to Technik, just good business. I'd also assume we'll see other airline tails here getting work done. It is somewhat mentioned in WestJet's press release:
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I would imagine having the facility here has some other savings (eg ferry flights, less time out of service) that help out with the cost of a big long term contract.
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03-10-2025, 11:47 AM
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Weather (winds specifically?) yesterday may have been the caused something I don't think I have ever seen at YYC before. AC 851 (LHR-YYC) landed on 35R simultaneously with WS 80 (YYC-NRT) departing opposite direction on 17R. Previous arrival (OCN76) landed on 29.
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03-10-2025, 11:52 AM
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#2994
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Weather (winds specifically?) yesterday may have been the caused something I don't think I have ever seen at YYC before. AC 851 (LHR-YYC) landed on 35R simultaneously with WS 80 (YYC-NRT) departing opposite direction on 17R. Previous arrival (OCN76) landed on 29.
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Wow, I had to check that out on the playback on Flightradar24 to see that.
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03-10-2025, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Weather (winds specifically?) yesterday may have been the caused something I don't think I have ever seen at YYC before. AC 851 (LHR-YYC) landed on 35R simultaneously with WS 80 (YYC-NRT) departing opposite direction on 17R. Previous arrival (OCN76) landed on 29.
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I thought that was funny too. 80 was too heavy to depart 29. Not sure why AC landed 35R. They would have had a tailwind but the wind direction was changing quite a bit.
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03-10-2025, 07:47 PM
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The wind was pretty much straight west at 250 degrees then, and pretty unique using opposite runways (17R and 35L) at the same time, in addition to the primary of 29.
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04-23-2025, 09:11 AM
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#2998
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Western Canada
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
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That's a great flight, super easy and just a bit longer than going to Europe. Super happy we have it now, let's make sure to fill it up year-round!
Also, consider Japan for your winter holiday! Weather is 7C to 15C most days and with less tourists come cheaper prices and less waiting.
We went over xmas break and it was one of our best family holidays ever! Just don't get stuck over new years as a lot of stuff shuts down.
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04-23-2025, 04:07 PM
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#2999
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Here right now! Prices are good, no tipping, and the people are really nice.
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