Rule of law and standard practice. Its done this way for a reason no matter how some may think its dumb. Yes. Same for Canada’s AIF. Done for a reason, no matter how some may think it’s dumb. Question your government. Well airport infrastructure is funded by the airport improvement fee. Last time I...
Jump to postSome more annoying bulk loaded birds (and starboard side fuel) for the boys downstairs. The bulk loading clearly doesn't bother AC management, since they bought the Max. I thought fueling on the starboard side was standard, whether bulk loading or ULD loading. After consulting the A320 ACAP documen...
Jump to postThats strange, I have been hearing the YVR/YYJ routes were doing very well. The poor performers seem to be YYC and YYT from what I have encountered. While I obviously don't have any official numbers, my observations on Porter's YYZ-YYT flights is that they are not doing well on the route. I routine...
Jump to postGentlemen please, we’ve been going round in circles with this for years. Let’s just move on. I am happy to. With regards to liveries, my favorite was the single red cheatline with the thin white line. I thought it was a classic livery, and while I did like the dual red and burgundy cheatlines, it s...
Jump to postCounted 20 getting on YYJ to Toronto yesterday. This rapid growth is way ahead of the demand curve even using smaller than traditional airframes. I would imagine that Eastern loads are better but the network needs to grow to all markets before taking on additional airframes. I just do't see a path ...
Jump to postThanks for clarifying that for me @CrewBunk. My understanding was the opposite, and I'm sure we were told that by some former Cp staff, but I guess something was lost in translation. I understand your Father’s anger. But, if you look at it rationally, you can see how it happened. Before the merger,...
Jump to postI completely agree with you that the merger was handled poorly, as it absolutely was, and your statement on Robert Milton couldn't be more true. He is the most vile piece in AC's history and was certainly not liked by most everyone, including legacy AC employees. And yet he has a B77W registered af...
Jump to postAC_B777 The part that was factually incorrect was your take on pensions. The pensions were all fully funded when AC took over CP. Thankfully, the financial jurisdiction of the pension plans was outside of control of the company. One of the facets of a merger is merging of the pension plans. The Ada...
Jump to postAs someone with CP family I'm not sure where you are getting some of that information from. But of course there were bad feelings which is natural. The airline they cared about had died while their competitor, who they had to witness enjoy decades of government favoritism, emerged the victor. CP ha...
Jump to postThe CP employees had nothing left to give, their pensions were gone, pay capped, riddled with debt among other things, yet, many of them ended up retiring from AC with the same or better pensions than original AC employees that had the same or higher seniority. I remember seeing a 30 year former CP...
Jump to postThe CP merger has always been a "we conquered our enemy" mindset at AC. As a junior AC employee at the time of the merger, I don't feel this was the general sentiment from AC employees. If anything, that was more from the former CP employees. Sure, there was a lot of animosity and bittern...
Jump to postThe diversion on Dec 25 was due to a medical emergency on board. I'm not sure of the reason why the flight diverted again today, probably medical as the flight did depart YYT for YYZ.
Jump to postOn the domestic front, YHZ-YYT going to 5x, along with PD converting the route to E95s and now Y9 loading an X26 7M8 (same-plane to/from YYZ) is quite the overall capacity boost on that city pair. The question is, will AC upgrade some if not all those YHZ-YYT flights to jets or will they stick with...
Jump to postOn the domestic front, YHZ-YYT going to 5x, along with PD converting the route to E95s and now Y9 loading an X26 7M8 (same-plane to/from YYZ) is quite the overall capacity boost on that city pair. The question is, will AC upgrade some if not all those YHZ-YYT flights to jets or will they stick with...
Jump to postWhat I can’t quite get is how the infrastructure at Goose Bay is not kept in place to handle these situations well. The airport is quite relevant as diversion point for transatlantic traffic. It should get subsidies to keep idle infrastructure for the passengers of at least one widebody aircraft or...
Jump to postWhat I can’t quite get is how the infrastructure at Goose Bay is not kept in place to handle these situations well. The airport is quite relevant as diversion point for transatlantic traffic. It should get subsidies to keep idle infrastructure for the passengers of at least one widebody aircraft or...
Jump to postAs was discussed here earlier several pages back, to free up a bunch of Dash 8 capacity to add more regional routes, YHZ to YYT, YUL & YOW this summer are all going all E95. https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/porter-airlines-sees-strength-in-east-coast-increases-capacity-on-three-halifax-rou...
Jump to postAbout 60 pax outbound tonight on YYC-YYZ, and that's roughly what the load has been for a few weeks. Surely they aren't losing money. Surely. Their loads on the YYZ-YYT E2 flights are about the same, sometimes even less. Last night, there must have been less than 30 people that came off that flight...
Jump to postScrolled through and didn't see this anywhere yet. The Star Alliance C/s C-GITU has been in Mirabel since arriving there Sept 21st from Birmingham, UK with the new XLR cabin. Figured additional work was done in Trois Rivieres as opposed to Mirabel? Bill The FIN that arrived from BHX does not have t...
Jump to postAs some might not have Facebook, here's a another shot. Photo credit Mike Perez.
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Looks great!
Air Canada Cargo will be temporarily ceasing freighter operations in YYT and YHZ for the winter 2023/24 season with a hopeful return sometime in 2024. I don't have an official link as it was an internal document. I can only assume this has to do with the MTC issues the older 767F frames have had ove...
Jump to postI don’t fly the A320 any more. When I did, that restriction was in the AOM. FINs 201-236 could not be bulk loaded. It’s quite possible the Jetz FINs have been converted since. When the Jetz operation went to the A320 from the 737, it was using exCP FINs. We were told that was the reason, as otherwi...
Jump to postThanks for the insight on the pluses and minuses. For some reason I thought the CP 320s were bulk. My mistake! The exCP A320s can be bulk loaded, but can use containers as well. The original AC A320s, 201-236 can only use containers. The main holds are not fitted for bulk loading. That’s why when a...
Jump to postDoes AC use ULDs on the A32X fleet at all anymore? I was surprised to see an A320 being loaded by hand today. But I also saw some smaller ULDs on the tarmac. Did AC discontinue the use of ULDs to streamline baggage handling with the B7M8 and A223 fleets? KrisYYZ All the mainline A320's are still co...
Jump to postDoes AC use ULDs on the A32X fleet at all anymore? I was surprised to see an A320 being loaded by hand today. But I also saw some smaller ULDs on the tarmac. Did AC discontinue the use of ULDs to streamline baggage handling with the B7M8 and A223 fleets? KrisYYZ All the mainline A320's are still co...
Jump to postPerhaps, but the market from YYT is so seasonal that it's perhaps not worth it from the perspective of the equipment needs for short targeted periods. It's now like YOW where a seasonal TPA/MCO/FLL flight can operate daily for half the year, for YYT it's probably a few days a week max for four mont...
Jump to postNot sure if it was there before, but there appears to be a red-eye YYC-YYT as well This route has been around for a while, maybe close to 10 years or more. It was only briefly paused during the height of the pandemic, but has done extremely well for WS during their summer sked. WS also had a YEG-YY...
Jump to postNot sure if it was there before, but there appears to be a red-eye YYC-YYT as well This route has been around for a while, maybe close to 10 years or more. It was only briefly paused during the height of the pandemic, but has done extremely well for WS during their summer sked. WS also had a YEG-YY...
Jump to postI am not familiar with Canada's laws regarding airlines and contracts (i.e. - in the U.S., there's a process that must be followed to actually strike. Even if the process is followed, the president can step in to avert a strike). What is the process in Canada, and can the PM step in to avert the st...
Jump to postI am not familiar with Canada's laws regarding airlines and contracts (i.e. - in the U.S., there's a process that must be followed to actually strike. Even if the process is followed, the president can step in to avert a strike). What is the process in Canada, and can the PM step in to avert the st...
Jump to postThey are temporarily pulling out of YYC, or so they say. Leasing their a/c to another carrier (Flair). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-jetlines-temporarily-discontinues-calgary-1.6800153 They haven’t flown a flight to YYC or YVR for a while… Ok, I have no idea of their operation. All ...
Jump to postThey are temporarily pulling out of YYC, or so they say. Leasing their a/c to another carrier (Flair).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6800153
AC's terrible IT is now entering the 4th calendar year since the system changeover in the fall of 2020. This is now well past being a joke and is quite possibly the worst IT in the entire travel industry. Could not agree more. For a national airline their reservation system is diabolical. Westjet’s...
Jump to postI handled this diversion last night with AC. Two women decided to have a cat fight on board resulting in the diversion. Police met the a/c and I believe both were taken into custody. AA dispatch asked me if we had any Spanish speaking personnel that could assist with translation, which unfortunately...
Jump to postAre there plans to return the YYT-LHR flight? I wouldn’t say never, a second daily flight was operated from YYC before for a number of years….if the market warrants it, it could operate again. Doing so would require a reallocation of LHR slots to YYC. Recognising that they did do this in the past (...
Jump to post"YYT-LHR can already be done with the MAX, but it’s likely the high cost of LHR slots that will keep AC from operating anything other than YVR/YYC/YYZ/YUL/YHZ-LHR" Technically, YYT-LHR could be done with the A220 and quite frankly anything larger than the 220 is overkill. Our loads on the ...
Jump to postThe title is still misleading, please modify to "A321XLRs". To me MAXes will stay with Air Canada, XLRs fly way farther, it will nicely replace 1 for 1 the 25 B767s that were operated pre-virus. And I agree, at some stage the current A321ceos will need replacement, maybe with just regular...
Jump to postPosted earlier but removed by Mods... Air Canada has ordered 26 A321XLR's. Not surprising that this order was placed. I personally see a future order for more NEO's with LR's and XLR's. Perhaps we will see the MAX's go to Rouge. I posted a separate thread instead of burying it deep into the AC discu...
Jump to postHJM wrote:Likely AC flights will make a tech stop in Europe, perhaps DUB or CPH.
The relevant taxiway is about as long as the closed 4R/22L, but taxiways are lighted green while runways are lighted white. The problem here was between the neck and the top of the head. Taxiway lights are blue. The centerline line lights are green, but the edge lights are blue. Either way, they st...
Jump to postThe Air Canada retro TCA A319 was done around 1998. That was one of my earliest memories of a retro livery.
Jump to postMaybe this is a silly question, but none the less: I'm curious, given the recent environment (small load factors), wouldn't it make more sense to fly narrow body aircraft to Europe with a "technical fuel stop" in Iceland? I'm wondering why you would think they would have to do a tech stop...
Jump to postLooks like a financial package is on the way for AC. Not sure about other airlines.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-ca ... -1.5984543
Precisely , they the airlines have only self serving interests. Those marvelling over Air Canada’s inability to do the right thing during this spiralling crisis are forgetting that the flag carrier, which was built with public money, has long had a malfunctioning moral compass. https://www.theglobe...
Jump to postI was part of an AC employee group that had the privilege to tour the Airbus facility at Dorval in Oct 2019 and got to see the entire assembly process of the 220, and it is a fabulous machine. During the presentation, one of the on site managers said that CFM was very close to a fix with the engine...
Jump to postNot surprised about the MAX cancellations but am surprised about the A220 cancellations. I suspected AC would eventually cancel all outstanding MAX-8s in favour of additional 220s to suit lower demand on domestic routes moving forward. You don't see this as a means to get the government to maybe th...
Jump to postWhy can't you fly barefoot? Why would you want to fly barefoot?!?! Seriously! Walking around an airport and an aircraft where thousands of other people have walked with God knows what on the bottom of their shoes! Not to mention going into the lavs barefoot!! Ugh...An airplane is not some sandy bea...
Jump to postWe had wind and light rain here in YYT last night, but it certainly wasn't outside crosswind limits. The wind was from a SSW direction 38km/h gusting to 59, which favored runway 29 with about a 20 degree crosswind, again, nothing major, certainly nothing a properly trained Canadian pilot couldn't h...
Jump to postMETARs for that time show a different story. 66 degree crosswind for Rwy 29 and gusts to 31-32kts with rain. I hope you realize that different operators may have different limits for the same aircraft type let alone different types like in your anecdote. Should this crew have busted the recommended ...
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