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(05-13-2019, 04:39 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: (05-13-2019, 03:51 PM)Section ThirtyOne Wrote: Next winter as in 6-7 months from now? This is amazing news and will make our travels to Cozumel that much easier!
*edit: It is this winter, the Cancun flight appears to be leaving/returning on Wednesdays. Not ideal, but better than schlepping through Pearson.
I wonder why they're going Wednesdays, a weekend flight would seem to make far more sense.
Presumably they have some higher-revenue-opportunity flights for those aircraft on weekends. You can bet that they will be flying every day of the week; the airlines then optimize the schedules to maximize revenue.
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(08-25-2019, 08:35 PM)tomh009 Wrote: (05-13-2019, 04:39 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I wonder why they're going Wednesdays, a weekend flight would seem to make far more sense.
Presumably they have some higher-revenue-opportunity flights for those aircraft on weekends. You can bet that they will be flying every day of the week; the airlines then optimize the schedules to maximize revenue.
This is a good point.
Airline economics are interesting.
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Are the flights to Toronto ending? I was looking on the FlyGTA site for a date in October but there doesn’t seem to be anything available after the end of August.
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It's been months since I've seen them here....
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I noticed a low flying commercial jet a few minutes ago, and was curious what flight it was. It showed up on flightaware as a sunwing 737 from Hamilton. I thought this was highly strange as I thought sunwing canceled the flights from ykf due to covid.
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I don't know if it's accurate, but I had read somewhere that YKF was being used to park a number of aircraft that had been taken out of service. Anybody been out there?
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(03-22-2020, 03:53 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: I noticed a low flying commercial jet a few minutes ago, and was curious what flight it was. It showed up on flightaware as a sunwing 737 from Hamilton. I thought this was highly strange as I thought sunwing canceled the flights from ykf due to covid.
I saw that too. My first though that it was a WestJet from Calgary -- but unsure if those flights are still on, plus this one didn't actually look like a WestJet.
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03-22-2020, 05:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-22-2020, 05:12 PM by timio.)
There was a release earlier this week that said the secondary runway and taxiway was going to be closed to allow storage of unused planes.
Quote:Our Secondary Runway and Taxiway B will close Sunday, March 22, 2020 for approximately one month to accommodate parking of commercial aircraft grounded in response to the global pandemic.
Edit: Adding link and quote.
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(03-22-2020, 05:09 PM)timio Wrote: There was a release earlier this week that said the secondary runway and taxiway was going to be closed to allow storage of unused planes.
Quote:Our Secondary Runway and Taxiway B will close Sunday, March 22, 2020 for approximately one month to accommodate parking of commercial aircraft grounded in response to the global pandemic.
Edit: Adding link and quote.
Ah thanks. I looked at ykf's history for today on flightaware, and it showed two sunwing planes from Edmonton, two from Toronto, and the one from Hamilton I saw earlier so I guess sunwing are parking them here.
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There's a photo on Reddit of several parked Sunwing planes at YKF. https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...t_waterloo
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A bit of revenue for YKF in slow times ...
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If I am reading Flightaware correct, there are 13 of them here now. Tails C-GYUK, C-GTUO, C-GNCH, C-GFEH, C-GBZS, C-FYJD, C-FWGH, C-FTUN, C-FTOH, C-FJVE, C-FIUM, C-FPRP AND C-FFPH.
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(03-23-2020, 06:32 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: If I am reading Flightaware correct, there are 13 of them here now. Tails C-GYUK, C-GTUO, C-GNCH, C-GFEH, C-GBZS, C-FYJD, C-FWGH, C-FTUN, C-FTOH, C-FJVE, C-FIUM, C-FPRP AND C-FFPH.
All Sunwing?
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(03-23-2020, 06:44 PM)panamaniac Wrote: (03-23-2020, 06:32 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: If I am reading Flightaware correct, there are 13 of them here now. Tails C-GYUK, C-GTUO, C-GNCH, C-GFEH, C-GBZS, C-FYJD, C-FWGH, C-FTUN, C-FTOH, C-FJVE, C-FIUM, C-FPRP AND C-FFPH.
All Sunwing?
Yes
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