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
Porter Airlines is the latest entrant on the competitive domestic route between Toronto YYZ and Vancouver. On Tuesday 7 February, the airline added the 3,350-kilometre sector to its network, with an initial 2-daily service operated by its new E195E2 aircraft. Flights PD305 and PD313 depart Toronto YYZ at 10:15 and 17:59 local time respectively, arriving […]
February 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Service One talks with Vancouver International Airports President and Chief Executive Officer, Tamara Vrooman about the challenges that YVR has faced in rebuilding its traffic back to 80% of pre pandemic levels, its longstanding airline relationships and plans for the future. Q: What have been the particular challenges faced by Vancouver International Airport (YVR) […]
October 13, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
It has only taken 22 years, but JetBlue has finally launched its first service to Canada. On 9 June, the carrier began daily service from New York JFK to Vancouver. The 3,940-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier and will be flown using the airline’s A320s. However, Air Canada and its Star Alliance […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The skies of Canada welcomed a new airline last week when Calgary-based Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) launched its first route between Calgary and Vancouver on Thursday 7 April. However, the airline is not quite as new as it seems as it has evolved out of Enerjet, which received its Canadian AOC as long ago […]
April 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
John Wayne Airport Orange County (IATA code SNA) serving Santa Ana in California welcomed its first service from Air Canada on Saturday 2 October, when 4-weekly flights from Vancouver began. Choosing Saturday as the launch day could explain the apparent lack of interest by the airline and the airports involved in celebrating this new service. […]
October 15, 2021 | 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 […]
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
Having only just resumed operations, Canadian leisure carrier Air Transat celebrated by launching a new route on Monday 2 August between Vancouver and Quebec City. The inaugural service on the 3,800-kilometre route (flight number TS 969 operated by an Airbus A321neo registration C-GOIF) departed Vancouver at 11:17 local time and arrived in Quebec City four […]
August 4, 2021 | Latest Route News +
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