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Old 11-04-2011, 10:13 AM   #201
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Crappy news, Lufthansa is dropping the YYC-FRA flight as of February 4th.
What!?!? Permanently? Or seasonally?? That sucks huge, that is probably the flight I take more than any other. Will AC still be keeping the route? I find AC is actually pretty much comparable to Lufthansa now, and more English entertainment content.

Does this mean the Condor routes are toast too?
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Old 11-04-2011, 10:21 AM   #202
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No chance Star Alliance drops YYC-FRA altogether.

I am thinking it would just a seasonal cancellation and will be back in June if the news is true. I always thought it was odd that both airlines flew the route, why wouldnt just AC do the route and LH do a 4X weekly to Munich.
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Old 11-04-2011, 10:24 AM   #203
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Speaking of the 748, the Boeing boys had some more fun with it and did a 15 hour flight that went over every single state in the lower 48:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/B...100Z/KPAE/KPAE
They missed West Virginia.
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What!?!? Permanently? Or seasonally?? That sucks huge, that is probably the flight I take more than any other. Will AC still be keeping the route? I find AC is actually pretty much comparable to Lufthansa now, and more English entertainment content.

Does this mean the Condor routes are toast too?
As of right now the flight is completely out of the schedule. So it is not a seasonal cancellation at this point.

Air Canada is reported to be going to the A333 on the FRA route once this happens (a lot of rumour that they may even utilize a 777 on the flight).

I think Condor will still do their thing on the charter side, perhaps even increasing in frequency.

This is most likely AC and LH streamlining their ops to FRA from YYC, it could be a sign that BA and KLM have hurt them a little to on the YYC-Europe traffic.
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They missed West Virginia.
Boeing has tweeted about it as well, so I am assuming they did hit all lower 48 and that the path on flightaware may be a little off.
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:59 PM   #206
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Here is a link to a picture of the upper deck of a 747F.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Atlas...0623e6b8e22507
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Looks like another delay in the delivery of the first 787's for Air Canada, now scheduled for the first quarter of 2014.

http://www.680news.com/business/arti...canada-analyst

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If you are the type of person that sleeps right through a landing I think this one would have woken you up:

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Very late flare on that one.
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Very late flare on that one.
Yup, late to non-existent! A 747 FO over at airliners.net was saying with the centre of gravity sitting in front of the main gears on the 747 if you flare too late you pretty much "push" the main gears down onto the runway.

Ouch. Just look at the inboard flaps shake with the impact, massive amount of force being absorbed by the tires and airframe.

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Old 11-07-2011, 06:56 PM   #212
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I forgot to brag that I got to hang out in the control tower at YYC a couple weeks ago. That's some cool stuff going on up there.
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I forgot to brag that I got to hang out in the control tower at YYC a couple weeks ago. That's some cool stuff going on up there.
Very fun to go up there and watch them at work. I used to take our ground school classes up there at least once so they could get a look at things from behind the ATC screen.

I would love to see the view from the new tower when it is complete, tallest eye height cab in the country when it's done.
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Very fun to go up there and watch them at work. I used to take our ground school classes up there at least once so they could get a look at things from behind the ATC screen.

I would love to see the view from the new tower when it is complete, tallest eye height cab in the country when it's done.
How hard is it to get in there with, say, a small group of cub scouts?
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How hard is it to get in there with, say, a small group of cub scouts?
Not too sure, it was easy for us since it was a ground school of private pilots and ATC loves the chance to show them the world of flying from their end. Helps us all get along better and understand the limitations on either side.

You could try blasting them an email to see if they can set it up for your cub scouts:

http://navcanada.ca/NavCanada.asp?La...%5Cdefault.xml
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Rumour has it that Westjet is going to be announcing something today. Sounds like it may have something to do with them working with a regional partner like Central Mountain Air or Hawkair.
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Rumour has it that Westjet is going to be announcing something today. Sounds like it may have something to do with them working with a regional partner like Central Mountain Air or Hawkair.
Any word on this as of yet?

I've done a few Google searches throughout the day but I can't find anything on it
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Nope nothing yet, today was also their release of their third quarter numbers.

But there is something definitely going on, that's all I've been told.
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Old 11-09-2011, 12:57 PM   #219
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Master spotter Wee_in_YYC captured this delivery flight overhead YYC yesterday:


VT-SGV by Wee in YYC, on Flickr

This is a brand new 737-800 for SpiceJet of India, en-route from Boeing Field to Glasgow.
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Old 11-10-2011, 02:52 AM   #220
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A330 with lots of headwind:

http://gizmodo.com/5857866/watch-thi...-a-few-seconds
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