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- Wed May 20, 2020 7:51 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Snowbird replacement aircraft
- Replies: 133
- Views: 20485
Re: Snowbird replacement aircraft
We’ll all be whining in a few years when the reality of Turd 2’s reckless spending kicks in. Trust me. the juvenile namecalling aside, CPI is down 0.2pc in April and governments are borrowing at 1% or less over 30 year periods (e.g. Ireland's 30 year issue at 0.79% on the 14th). If you want to get ...
- Tue May 19, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Snowbird replacement aircraft
- Replies: 133
- Views: 20485
Re: Snowbird replacement aircraft
According to this NatPost (no friend to the present government) an estimate of $775m was made in 2012 but not proceeded with by the then (Conservative) government. That’s not quite the same as a cancellation as I read it. Whether the decision to extend the current fleet was ill advised will be a mat...
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:37 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: WestJet seeks to fly Boeing 737 jets from island airport.
- Replies: 54
- Views: 26633
Re: WestJet seeks to fly Boeing 737 jets from island airport
It may be my overly imaginative brain, but does a train not also go in the opposite direction? If so: How many customers will find the train easier access to BBTCA? Would only suit people in Weston (who's going to go to T1 YYZ just to catch a train to Pearson) but that would be an interesting appro...
- Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:26 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: WestJet seeks to fly Boeing 737 jets from island airport.
- Replies: 54
- Views: 26633
Re: WestJet seeks to fly Boeing 737 jets from island airport
In my view (as someone who flies from YTZ and supported PD during the Miller years) the best solution is to make YTZ a perimeter airport and stop this nonsense talk of LAX and Caribbean flights. Deluce has burned a lot of bridges during this fiasco but I don't think WS saying "we'd fly 737s out of Y...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 7:52 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Porter/Bombardier set to announce CS100 order . . .
- Replies: 112
- Views: 18241
Re: Porter/Bombardier set to announce CS100 order . . .
A few things: 1. I don't think anyone believes the Port Authority with their "who me" posture, surely? 2. Big risk by Porter on the PR front. They are asking for exactly the thing they said they would never ask for and would never need in their business model. 3. With Olivia Chow tiptoeing around th...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:55 pm
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: Q400 vs ATR
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15043
Re: Q400 vs ATR
More jobs for Toronto 

- Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: YTZ (Porter) gets a tunnel.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3925
Re: YTZ (Porter) gets a tunnel.
TBH I liked the view from the ferry. The view of the downtown is one of the best reasons to Fly Island. Some nights you're just in a hurry though and being able to speedwalk through a tunnel would work too. For a tiny fraction of the 8 billion the province is giving Rob Ford's council or a small fra...
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:50 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: YTZ (Porter) gets a tunnel.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3925
Re: YTZ (Porter) gets a tunnel.
Not enough of a Party man like the four guys who are pictured?altiplano wrote:Looks like a done deal, I'm only surprised that Deluce didn't get in the picture...
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/711905
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: AC is such a mess
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7968
Re: AC is such a mess
No strike threat can be considered if Parliament is in session. The 308 most self-interested folks in Canada.
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:35 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: AIR CANADA TO COMMENCE TORONTO CITY AIRPORT FLIGHTS IN FEb
- Replies: 65
- Views: 13396
Re: AIR CANADA TO COMMENCE TORONTO CITY AIRPORT FLIGHTS IN F
Porter has had a monopoly at YTZ for 4 years - losing $40 million over that period, no less - and if it were at any other Airport the competition would've responded a hell of a lot quicker. In most other cities - especially one with an aircraft assembly line within the city boundary - YTZ would hav...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Who will be TO's next Mayor?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1613
Re: Who will be TO's next Mayor?
At least CYTZ is probably safe for four years - although if Ford fucks up we're looking at Vaughan 2014 and that's going to be worse than Miller Time for the Island.
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Good news for Quebec economy as natural gas discovery is big
- Replies: 6
- Views: 941
Re: Good news for Quebec economy as natural gas discovery is big
so this means when the PQ manage to get 50.1%, they will be able to pay their share of the national debt on the way out the door? w00t!
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Quebec City Airshow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1035
Re: Quebec City Airshow
no doubt the separatists were complaining about the Reds...
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Westjet to operate Dash 8's???!!!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5662
Re: Westjet to operate Dash 8's???!!!
Hey Clive:


- Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Q400 and Toronto City Centre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1796
Re: Q400 and Toronto City Centre
it's almost sad that Porter are doing so well - when I flew with them YTZ-YOW there was 8 seats full out of 70 - the takeoff was brisk to put it mildly. Doubt the load would be as light these days what with the Premier and other nobs flying Porter. The jetway at the Ottawa end was a pleasant surpris...
- Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: More Airplanes for Porter
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4537
Re: More Airplanes for Porter
Interesting that even the Red Star could be persuaded to run a Porter friendly article :D http://www.thestar.com/article/461422 Of course it did involve fawning at various pseudo-celebrities... Apparently BOS or MDW are in the cards from a Porter expansion. http://www.thestar.com/article/461764 Woul...
- Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:57 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: 67 Winglets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1934
Re: 67 Winglets
Aviation Partners claim 5-6% saving on long 763ER sectors:
http://www.aviationpartnersboeing.com/p ... 300ER.html
http://www.aviationpartnersboeing.com/p ... 300ER.html
- Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Air France sues over crash
- Replies: 114
- Views: 11231
Re: Air France sues over crash
Let's just reduce the official landing distance of 24L by 1,000ft and call the rest a stopway. Easypeasy 

- Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:37 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Porter - interesting take from aeforum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1823
Re: Porter - interesting take from aeforum
If BBD is to be believed, they could still be profitable...
http://www.bombardier.com/q400/en/turbo.jsp
(ironically, if Miller hadn't sabotaged the bridge, Deluce wouldn't have gotten a $30m settlement to bankroll his launch...)
http://www.bombardier.com/q400/en/turbo.jsp
(ironically, if Miller hadn't sabotaged the bridge, Deluce wouldn't have gotten a $30m settlement to bankroll his launch...)
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:12 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: RCMP officer injured in struggle with armed pregnant woman
- Replies: 6
- Views: 720
Re: RCMP officer injured in struggle with armed pregnant woman
baby's first words:
"don't tase me bro!"
"don't tase me bro!"
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:42 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: GM to halt production at Oshawa truck plant
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2780
Re: GM to halt production at Oshawa truck plant
spoke to my mother in Ireland last night, and gas there is is C$2.14/L (Eur1.36)
However that gas is 95 Octane, not 87 (Super is 97/98)
Gas taxes are higher in Europe but you also get better gas.
However that gas is 95 Octane, not 87 (Super is 97/98)
Gas taxes are higher in Europe but you also get better gas.
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:04 am
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Porter Airlines
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7956
Re: Porter Airlines
won't the WJ folks flying Porter be scared at the whizzing props? I seem to remember a WJ bigwig muttering about how horrible they were... 

- Fri May 30, 2008 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: St. John's Councillor Upset with Air Canada
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3177
Re: St. John's Councillor Upset with Air Canada
And you only have West Jet to thank for it.stl No, I blame AC, just as I blame BA and other legacy airlines for failing to demonstrate that it's worth paying a fair price to fly. They are merely reacting to the likes of WJ, and in the wrong areas like rebooking fees and paying not to be bumped, the...
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:47 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: More and less Carbon in WJ's future?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2720
Re: More and less Carbon in WJ's future?
thanks for the correction Jonny. A 700kg saving - how come Boeing have waited until now to go carbon then? Is it linked to what the cool-down times are compared to steel? 738 operators like Ryanair have turnaround basically pared to how long the brakes take to cool these days.
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:45 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Bombardier in Mexico
- Replies: 7
- Views: 785
Re: Bombardier in Mexico
that's coz McGuinty is pouring money into Dodge sportscars and not cars people actually want to buy or retraining workers into aerospace jobs - only Quebec is allowed have a proper aerospace industry anyway