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Thankfully I don't typically see that gongshow of a customs hall. I'm told it's a bit better but I haven't personally seen how bad it is when all those heavy Europe flights come at the same time.

The white elephant of an overbuilt terminal just ran out of gates. Overbuilt, they said.

WestJet and Air Canada are both operating 14 weekly 787-9 to Europe. Air Canada's have 298 seats and WestJet are 320... and given that WestJet's flights appear to consistently be over 300 pax to all three destinations, they will likely carry more transatlantic passengers from Calgary for peak...

Bit of a different angle, a couple days ago. WestJet (C-GWSI) by Acey, on Flickr

Landmark day for WestJet. For the first time, they will send more planes to Europe than Air Canada from Calgary. 960 seats across three Dreamliners... Paris, London, Dublin. Sunday is the only day of the week all three fly.

Yeah it starts today, as does the seasonal Condor run to Frankfurt; Edelweiss to Zurich and Transat to Amsterdam started yesterday and inaugural WestJet Dublin flies tomorrow.

I'd prefer a 767, as I personally hate middle seats. The 767 does the best job of mitigating that. Whatever. Atlanta continues to perform very well for WestJet. On a given day, Paris has more pax than Gatwick at the moment, but Gatwick is daily. Paris currently 3x weekly.

From a middle of the pack 737 config to the densest 787 in North America.

Yeah, that's O&D traffic... they'll pick some of that up which is good. CDG isn't a great hub to connect through, AMS is much better. Given their push to work more with KLM it's not in their best interest to cannibalize that service. That's kind of the dilemma. I think you have to find a way to...

I'd think they want to get a 789 onto YYZ-LGW before more CDG is added. Obviously a daily CDG with 320 seats would cannibalize FRA, AMS, and BA LHR to some degree, it's too many seats to not at least consider it. From my perspective, the first thing to go if WS ramps up transatlantic ops from...

WestJet would presumably prefer to ramp up onward connections at CDG, which correlates with the increased Air France codeshares announced shortly before this inaugural. We have a pretty good idea of how things are looking right now, and it's good. Dublin slightly less certain.

All 3 of those typical in the 90% range. All I'll say is that zero conclusion can be drawn from one flight, especially an inaugural. Advertising or marketing pushes, whatever the case may be, has not ever correlated to some high level of performance for inaugurals based on my experience here...

318 of 320 seats filled on WestJet's first Calgary to Paris flight last night.

That'd be bold, in a time of deep uncertainty for them. They need to reassure themselves they can make money with these frames than they will go elsewhere with the 8 more that are on order. I know a lot of people wanted Japan, South America and the moon this morning so they're disappointed, but...

Emirates loads are very strong to YYZ, 80-90%. Certainly not half full.

Can't make it. Highly unlikely.

I'll agree that they suck, but the trisector gates are the basis of the design and the most crucial gates for both WS and AC. Most of the problems can be attributed to the desire to separate int'l, transborder, and domestic outbounds, as opposed to just transborder from everybody else. I keep...

Modern planes just use better numbers in terms of estimating the likely configuration of airlines, weights of passengers, etc. It's not to say Airbus underestimated the burn when they published that number back in 1990 or whenever. And that's still air... when you're fighting an insane headwind...

To say that is a theoretical number is an understatement. That number represents an 8 hour sector in still air. An A319 in a standard config (let alone a Rouge config) could not possibly ever fly that. Heck, an A319neo could not fly that. Herein lies the problem with Googling to derive...

I'd say no given that a) they don't have 737-800, and b) the Rouge 319 has in the past left payload behind westbound on YHZ-YYC.