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Calgary International Airport

Looks like they had a Montreal flight that also didn't work out. So is Edmonton now without any intercontinental flights? I remember Air Canada pulled their Edmonton-Heathrow route years back...

When I took the Icelandair flight I was a little disappointed TBH. For an international flight it was pretty spartan - no free food or drink whatsoever.
 
Yep Air Canada pulled LHR at the same time Icelandair announced KEF (ended/started 2014).
Condor was even shorter lived than Icelandair, only serving YEG during the 2023 and 2024 summer seasons. It's not returning for 2025.
KLM started in 2015 and has been going since.
 
Albertasaurus said:
Looks like they had a Montreal flight that also didn't work out. So is Edmonton now without any intercontinental flights? I remember Air Canada pulled their Edmonton-Heathrow route years back...

When I took the Icelandair flight I was a little disappointed TBH. For an international flight it was pretty spartan - no free food or drink whatsoever.
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KLM flies AMS-YEG
 
Passenger traffic is up from the previous January. Transporter traffic was down for January, I don’t know if that is to do with Trump or to do with the dollar.
I’ll be anxious to see February and March numbers. Nice to see domestic and international up higher.

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Beltline_B said:
to do with Trump or to do with the dollar.
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I'd say yes and yes. I assume it will actually be worse in February and March as if you were travelling in January you likely already booked, same for February march as you'd have to cancel travel in those versus just not booking. Getting into the months after February March will be even lighter as you just won't see people booking travel to the states.
 
Beltline_B said:
Passenger traffic is up from the previous January. Transporter traffic was down for January, I don’t know if that is to do with Trump or to do with the dollar.
I’ll be anxious to see February and March numbers. Nice to see domestic and international up higher.

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They could use a quick check on the formatting before publishing. International being up consistently. With Westjet capacity limited with 787s, I wonder if we'll see another airline step in with an international flight.
 
Out of the 4 big airports, which has the most transborder traffic after Toronto which I assume is #1? I know Calgary is a hub for lots of flights into the US but not sure how it compares to Van or Montreal?
 
Beltline_B said:
Passenger traffic is up from the previous January. Transporter traffic was down for January, I don’t know if that is to do with Trump or to do with the dollar.
I’ll be anxious to see February and March numbers. Nice to see domestic and international up higher.
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The gong show hadn't even really started in January. I suspect transborder numbers will drop in Feb, Mar and beyond, especially as time goes on. A lot of people already had trips planned for Jan/Feb/Mar.
 
Albertasaurus said:
Out of the 4 big airports, which has the most transborder traffic after Toronto which I assume is #1? I know Calgary is a hub for lots of flights into the US but not sure how it compares to Van or Montreal?
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Complete 2024 data isn't available yet for all the airports (Toronto still hasn't published their final numbers), but 2023's are pretty similar so we can compare based on those.

You're right that Toronto Pearson has the most transborder traffic, being at 11,622,599 in 2023. Vancouver was second at 5,805,804, Montreal third with 4,636,159, and Calgary in 4th with at 3,556,112. I would expect these "placements" to be the same for 2024 and likely 2025 as well.

The order of the big 4 stays the exact same for percentage of transborder passengers as well, with YYZ at 26.6%, YVR at 23.9%, YUL at 22.7%, and YYC at 19.7%.


Air passenger traffic at Canadian airports, annual

Passengers enplaned and deplaned at Canadian airports, annual.
www150.statcan.gc.ca www150.statcan.gc.ca
 
As far as entire route cancellations go, yes. However numerous routes on WS have been subject to pretty sizeable reductions.
 
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