WestJet celebrated its 27th birthday at the end of February having taken to the sky on 29 February 1996 (yes, a leap day!). The carrier has undertaken a huge network transformation. Most recently, it ended all long-haul routes except from Calgary, its original and biggest airport – a real retreat-to-core. Over the past few years, […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Located just 100 kilometres from the border with Mexico, Tucson is the second biggest city in Arizona (after Phoenix) with a population of over 500,000. The airport serving the city is located around 13 kilometres south of the city centre and is a joint civil-military facility. Between 2009 and 2019 annual passenger numbers had been […]
December 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) now serves Edmonton in Alberta. On 14 July, the new Canadian low-cost carrier began daily service on the 2,700-kilometre route from Toronto YYZ. The route is already well served by Air Canada (52-weekly), WestJet (44-weekly), Swoop (10-weekly) and Flair Airlines (9-weekly). Edmonton becomes the airline’s tenth airport, and this is […]
July 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Swoop (IATA code WO) launched its first service to Ottawa (in Ontario) on Monday 25 April. The Canadian capital is now being served 3-weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) from Edmonton (in Alberta) by WestJet’s low-cost subsidiary. The 2,860-kilometre route is already served 3-weekly by low-cost rival Flair Airlines (who launched the route last June). Swoop […]
May 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Flair has recently launched a number of new international routes between Canada and the US. This includes a 2-weekly (Thursdays and Sundays) service on the 590-kilometre connection between Toronto YYZ and New York JFK, which began on Thursday 7 April. Maybe surprisingly, Flair is the only airline linking these two airports in April. Prior to […]
April 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Passenger demand in Canada, which saw a significant recovery in August, appears to have stalled in September. During last month passenger numbers through the country’s eight busiest airports were consistently between 40% and 45% of the figures from 2019, when adjusted on a rolling week basis. Capacity at 58% of 2019 levels in October Analysis […]
October 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Passenger demand in Canada is finally starting to recover. Latest passenger figures collected by CATSA at Canada’s eight busiest airports shows a rapid improvement since early June. At that time demand was only at 10% of the 2019 figure. However, by the end of August, demand was up to around 45% of the pre-pandemic figure, […]
September 17, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Canada’s commercial aviation industry has been slow to recover from the pandemic as the government introduced severe restrictions, even on domestic travel. Last autumn passenger numbers were at around 15% of the level of 2019. Between February and May of this year that figure had fallen to less than 10%, according to passenger data collected […]
July 30, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America