Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

[clasher]

Now if only they had one that went East to Halifax...

We could fly Kitchener to Paris, France then!

[panamaniac]

Now if only they had one that went East to Halifax...

We could fly Kitchener to Paris, France then!

Not to mention London, Reykjavik, Dublin, Glasgow, and Frankfurt.

[Spokes]

Does Halifax connect to all of those??

[Coke6pk]

Every little bit counts!

Absolutely! At the very least, it signals Westjet's confidence in the market here and suggests that the YYC-YKF route is profitable.

If WestJet had confidence, I wouldn't of had to read this last week:

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lond...fell-swoop

Coke

[Rainrider22]

Absolutely! At the very least, it signals Westjet's confidence in the market here and suggests that the YYC-YKF route is profitable.

If WestJet had confidence, I wouldn't of had to read this last week:

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lond...fell-swoop

Coke

Yes,  that is very disappointing.  I cant help but think we don't have the right people running our airport.  We seem to consistently loose out on new service.  There has to be a common denominator.  I cant help but think that the management doesn't entrust the confidence of prospective companies.  I have no direct proof..

[SammyOES]

I think people around here just over estimate the attraction of Waterloo to airlines and the general public. As much as Pearson is a pain, its still relatively close and offers way more flexibility than an airport like Waterloo can ever offer. We're still a reasonable distance to Hamilton and London too. It's not like we're in this great vast desert of no airline options. It's the opposite really.

[tomh009]

I think people around here just over estimate the attraction of Waterloo to airlines and the general public.  As much as Pearson is a pain, its still relatively close and offers way more flexibility than an airport like Waterloo can ever offer.  We're still a reasonable distance to Hamilton and London too.  It's not like we're in this great vast desert of no airline options.  It's the opposite really.

I agree on this. And we don't know what carrots London and Hamilton are offering to attract airlines to their airports.

[KingandWeber]

I think people around here just over estimate the attraction of Waterloo to airlines and the general public.  As much as Pearson is a pain, its still relatively close and offers way more flexibility than an airport like Waterloo can ever offer.  We're still a reasonable distance to Hamilton and London too.  It's not like we're in this great vast desert of no airline options.  It's the opposite really.

Fully agree. I'm willing to find a way to Pearson if it means avoiding a stopover, but that's just my own personal travel preference.

[panamaniac]

Does Halifax connect to all of those??

Yup.

[plam]

I think people around here just over estimate the attraction of Waterloo to airlines and the general public.  As much as Pearson is a pain, its still relatively close and offers way more flexibility than an airport like Waterloo can ever offer.  We're still a reasonable distance to Hamilton and London too.  It's not like we're in this great vast desert of no airline options.  It's the opposite really.

Fully agree. I'm willing to find a way to Pearson if it means avoiding a stopover, but that's just my own personal travel preference.

And if you're still trying to play the frequent-flier game, Pearson is much more useful than YKF. (Low-cost airlines don't help at all here, so the only flights that get points are WestJet). The airlines have been working on making that game not very fun anymore though.

[tomh009]

Fully agree. I'm willing to find a way to Pearson if it means avoiding a stopover, but that's just my own personal travel preference.

And if you're still trying to play the frequent-flier game, Pearson is much more useful than YKF. (...). The airlines have been working on making that game not very fun anymore though.

It's a race to the bottom.

I fly a lot (mostly for work), so I do accumulate miles. But there are no "free flights" any more, and the value of miles is slowly eroding. I find the primary benefit of the programs to be the status, which gets you priority check-in/security/boarding/luggage, lounge access and some occasional upgrades. But for sure this games isn't as much fun as it used to be.

[nms]

Did anyone else get an ear worm of "Eight days a week..."?

I wonder which day they'll add a flight.

[Spokes]

Hmmm....

[panamaniac]

Stay tuned indeed - I can’t believe that one of the low cost carriers isn’t going to be tempted to try a competition-free route out of YKF eventually.

[Canard]

The cynic in me learned years ago from the ion team to equate “stay tuned” with “pretend I just didn’t say anything, because there will be no news for the foreseeable future”