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Calgary International Airport

"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."

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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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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.
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.
 
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.
That would be awesome. Their service is always top notch
 
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.
 

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