All of them Jazz routes. BC routes make sense, YVR is the alternative for all these passengers. Yellowknife passengers still have good options (Encore and Cdn North).
Air Canada also suspending 'the majority' of transborder and international flights at the end of March. No specifics on how that will affect YYC.
All of them Jazz routes. BC routes make sense, YVR is the alternative for all these passengers. Yellowknife passengers still have good options (Encore and Cdn North).
Air Canada also suspending 'the majority' of transborder and international flights at the end of March. No specifics on how that will affect YYC.
I figured I'd update this thread regarding the current situation at YYC.
Today WestJet laid off around 6900 workers or roughly 50% of their work force.
KLM chose to keep direct flight from AMS-YYC 3x weekly and cut service to Edmonton and Vancouver
Runway 08/26 has been closed and is now being used to store aircraft. It (as of this afternoon) is holding a AC 77W, 789, and about 6 WS 737's and a 767.
Domestic flights are now being docked at concourse C and D and if need be B, A if only being used for WestJet Encore flights. and parked aircraft and equipment.
Overall the airport is expecting to lose about 5 million pax traffic this year, at a minimum.
British Airways, Eurowings, Edelwiess, Condor and Air Canada (All international) flights are now suspended until mid April
Hanian has suspended their flights from PEK-YYC indefinitely and that route will most likely be dropped entirely when it is said and done.
Westjet has suspended all Trans-border and International flights, they are only operating domestically right now.
Frontier has suspended service to YYC from what I have heard and United, Delta, Alaska and American are reducing capacity drastically.
Sunwing and Air Transat have suspended all operations. Air Transat is also retiring their A310's Early.
There's a lot of aircraft that need space to park, I've been wondering about that. AC, WestJet, Suwing, Transat, and Porter plus all the smaller operators that are scaling back.
Several points in that overview are definitely wrong but it doesn't really matter, the point remains that it's a bloodbath and will be a while before things are normal here at the airport.
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And... it's way too early to predict what the passenger drop will be here. We have no idea when the recovery will start, we just know it will be glacial. Not sure why they'd even try.
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Air Canada updated May to October planned operations:
Calgary – Cancun Service resumes on 06JUN20, 1 weekly A319 (A320 from 20JUN20) Calgary – Frankfurt Service resumes on 01JUN20, 4 weekly 787-9 (7 weekly from 24JUN20) Calgary – London Heathrow Service resumes on 24JUN20 (5 weekly 400-seater 777-300ER, 1 daily from 01JUL20) Calgary – Tokyo Narita Summer seasonal service cancelled, previously scheduled 1 daily from 30JUN20
Positive steps, hopefully they move forward although the Cancun one is interesting. June is a little more realistic and hopefully WestJet is able to follow similar timelines.
