trtcttc
Senior Member
Much less crowded compare to Spring/Summer. And for us, the winter there feels like a good Chinook day.
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I was looking onto going to Japan in November, but unfortunately I'll be going in July, dead center of high season and high heat, but with kids, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Chowda7
Active Member
WestJet Inducts Sunwing Airlines Aircraft in Major Integration Move
The first three Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft have entered service under WestJet as the airline integration continues.
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trtcttc
Senior Member
"By the end of 2025, a total of 43 planes—including those from Swoop, Sunwing, and Lynx—will undergo a complete cabin makeover to align with WestJet’s consistent layout."WestJet Inducts Sunwing Airlines Aircraft in Major Integration Move
The first three Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft have entered service under WestJet as the airline integration continues.
Are they actually making any progress on that? I see this get repeated a lot but unless they're like 1/3 of the way through that backlog, there's no way that's going to be done by end of 2025.
hollywoodcory
New Member
Couple of schedule updates:
-AA increased ORD to 2x daily 7M8 in October. They effectively become the largest carrier to ORD in Oct, surpassing UA.
-WS added additional frequencies to YDF and CUN for the Summer.
WS summer schedule kicks off on Sunday with BCN, DUB, DTW and DEN all resuming. PDX following a few days later.
-AA increased ORD to 2x daily 7M8 in October. They effectively become the largest carrier to ORD in Oct, surpassing UA.
-WS added additional frequencies to YDF and CUN for the Summer.
WS summer schedule kicks off on Sunday with BCN, DUB, DTW and DEN all resuming. PDX following a few days later.
Interesting. It doesn't seem like transborder traffic is dropping enough to causes a lot of routes being dropped. With AA doing the increase, is this due to an increase in Americans coming to Canada?
darwink
Senior Member
would be the best case scenario. very interesting!
blue12
New Member
Something else interesting to keep an eye on:
Starlux recently announced their new Taipei- Vancouver route since Canada updated their bilateral with Taiwan, and interestingly enough it allowed for up to 14x weekly flights to YYC/YYZ, but not YVR (it is at capacity) or YUL.
I don’t think any airlines have currently expressed interest in flying TPE-YYC, but this is still a positive regardless.
Starlux recently announced their new Taipei- Vancouver route since Canada updated their bilateral with Taiwan, and interestingly enough it allowed for up to 14x weekly flights to YYC/YYZ, but not YVR (it is at capacity) or YUL.
I don’t think any airlines have currently expressed interest in flying TPE-YYC, but this is still a positive regardless.
Chowda7
Active Member
darwink
Senior Member
Feb being down just because it has fewer days this year is a bit of a laugh. Otherwise, feb domestic and transborder up 0.4%, international 8.2%!.
trtcttc
Senior Member
I wonder if CI (China Airlines from Taiwan) would take this route. Being Skyteam they'd have good connectivity through Westjet. They already sell WS codeshares on YVR-YYC and LAX-YYC. It'd also give a connection to SE Asia. While a lot of US markets are bigger, they're also more saturated, while we only have a year round WS flight and the JL codeshares don't go past Japan I don't think.
Chowda7
Active Member
That would be awesome. Their service is always top notch
DougB
Senior Member
This suggests that outbound travel hasn't declined much: https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...-still-heading-south-amid-political-tensions/
Maybe "elbows up" rings less true in Alberta?
Since they seem to be focusing on numbers of people returning, I think May's numbers will be more telling, as many of those people returning in March may have been snowbirds who were already down in the US and were coming back.
As for the 'Elbows up', it think it's less true here in Alberta than in other parts of Canada. I know people including my brother in law who are still Trump supporters, even with the recent gong show involving trade. He says that he's fully planning to visit the US, and only to a red state.
As for the 'Elbows up', it think it's less true here in Alberta than in other parts of Canada. I know people including my brother in law who are still Trump supporters, even with the recent gong show involving trade. He says that he's fully planning to visit the US, and only to a red state.
darwink
Senior Member
February isn't when I would measure 'mission not accomplished. With plenty of travel booked close to a year in advance, and a lot more than 4 months in advance.