Recent content by blue12

Give it some time and I'm optimistic frequencies on YEG-KEF will rise.

You sure? I know Porter's expansion from Vancouver is pretty long rumoured, but I can't find any press release about this. You could be confusing it with YHU-YEG which was announced on Tuesday and also begins mid-June.

Once again the "Edmonton International Airport" thread has become the "I hate the Calgary International Airport" thread.

Porter and Air Canada have bases and onward connections from YUL (and now YHU) to help capture traffic. Westjet does not. Porter and Air Canada (notably AC) have better brand loyalty in Quebec than Westjet does.

Porter and the Montreal Metropolitan Airport (formerly St. Hubert) had a bit of an announcement today regarding the routes PD will be starting from YHU this summer. Included 7x weekly YHU-YEG. They begin on June 16th.

It occurred at LaGuardia (LGA) not London Gatwick (LGW). Regardless, this is tragic. I hope the FAA (and the administration controlling them) can really get their act together. There was only one controller working both the ground and tower at the time of the accident.

Edmonton has a smaller/less busy airport which is further away from the city, but is also closer to CFB Cold Lake where the CF-18s (and eventually F-35s) are based. It is the objectively better location for the tanker base on paper. That being said, if this rumour is true, I wouldn't be...

I think the key is that to boost Edmonton's tourism a substantial amount, the Edmonton-Jasper rail link would have to be high speed, or else it doesn't really pose an advantage. For international tourists looking to go to the rockies, most would opt to fly into Calgary and take a 1.5h train to...

I think you completely missed what he was saying. Yes similar load factors, but the important part is one route has a larger volume of seats which brings down prices. It's not that YYC-YYZ is "more empty" or "less profitable".

The A321XLR's introduction globally could be a quite beneficial for Edmonton as airlines such as Aer Lingus have been starting to target more secondary American cities with the jets and it would be a no-brainer (in my opinion) to do the same with some secondary Canadian airports like YEG or YOW...

It's exactly that. Inevitably when two cities of relatively similar size are right next door, both are not going to have equal levels of service. One will come out on top. Unfortunate for us, Calgary outperformed us in the "qualifications" and it's probably stuck for life that YYC will be bigger...

I have never seen an airline route where they have not published/hidden the fact that it was subsidized. Anyone who tells you some random route "only exists because of subsidies" with zero reporting or evidence surrounding the claim is likely lying out of their ass. Some examples of subsidized...

It's polling at less than 30%. I think it's best we don't speculate about things which don't have a chance at actually happening.

People have been accusing her of that. There's no indication it actually happened. I'm no Smith fan either but it's just a baseless excuse.

This is the self victimization I mentioned earlier - it seems to be about the fact that Calgary is doing well more so than the fact that Edmonton isn't. YYC is a newer hub but it's no more artificial than the others. Westjet picked a city that didn't have crazy market dominance by Air Canada...