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- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Going out with a bang.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1689
Re: Going out with a bang.
Maintair in YOW strikes again.You can't make this up good thing they lost the Porter contract before there is a serious accident.Maintair has been told to leave the airport and operating license has been removed.This will be the second ground handling company to be banned from YOW this year. What a...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Going out with a bang.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1689
Re: Going out with a bang.
It was a sunwing B737 being serviced by Maintair.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Going out with a bang.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1689
Going out with a bang.
Maintair in YOW strikes again.You can't make this up good thing they lost the Porter contract before there is a serious accident.Maintair has been told to leave the airport and operating license has been removed.This will be the second ground handling company to be banned from YOW this year.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Rumour has it
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2749
Re: Rumour has it
Who were the ground handlers for Porter in YOW? MaintAir out of YQT.They took over after Porter terminated all its own ground staff after the pandemic.Its been a shit show ever since.Constant staff turn around,they would hire 20 plus people every Monday and would have one guy left by the end of the...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Rumour has it
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2749
Rumour has it
Rumour out of YOW is your ground handling company has been kicked out of the airport for all the damage they have done to the airport facilities,and to the Porter aircraft,Swissport will be taking over and now Porter will actually have to pay a legitimate company to perform the services.This will be...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:25 am
- Forum: Flair Airlines
- Topic: Shutting down most of the airline
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11190
Re: Shutting down most of the airline
Flair has a 737 sitting in YOW that’s hasn’t moved in almost two weeks.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Another one down
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2885
Re: Another one down
Buddy from MaintAir drove the belt loader into the aircraft again.mmm...bacon wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:31 am What happened? Damage to the rear fuse, aft of the baggage hatch?
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:29 am
- Forum: Porter Airlines
- Topic: Another one down
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2885
Another one down
That's going to be expensive to fix.
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: Flair Airlines
- Topic: This can’t be good.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4759
This can’t be good.
If you can’t make it in YOW maybe it’s time to shut it all down.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 2:30 pm
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Pulling out of yyc
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3942
Re: Pulling out of yyc
So are you telling us AC has only 1 flight a day from YYC to all its destinations.Malfunction wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:56 am Only 1 flight out of yyc? Starting in Oct.. Yikes. That bases future is not looking good
- Wed May 31, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Here we go
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9719
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:10 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Flair Airlines - Planes seized
- Replies: 217
- Views: 31995
Re: 4 Flair aircraft seized
Been told from the fueling company in YOW that it’s now cash on the dash or no fuel and that 3 other fueling companies are demanding payment before being fueled.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Porter hanger in YOW
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5509
Re: Porter hanger in YOW
Westjet terminated its above the wing staff in YOW at least 2 years ago and contracted out the work to the lowest bidder.
- Tue Jan 04, 2022 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: What’s up with Westjet
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8556
Re: What’s up with Westjet
Westjet terminated their ground staff in YYC and contracted out their jobs to the lowest bidder who pays minimum wages with no benefits.The new company is called ATS and they are having major issues hiring and retaining current staff,They payed out over $100,000 in cash to retain the few employees t...
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:36 am
- Forum: WestJet
- Topic: WestJet Group Hiring Freeze
- Replies: 177
- Views: 71475
Re: WestJet Group Hiring Freeze
I was told Air Canada has already shown interest in purchasing the 787 aircraft.thrust set wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:46 am I’ve heard plans of returning with only 39-737’s and 22-Q400’s. What are the plans for the 787’s and the 767’s? Initially parking or any being returned ?
Good luck to all, hope for a quick return.
TS
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:13 am
- Forum: Air Canada
- Topic: Pass fees
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4619
Re: Pass fees
That's a silly post. Doubtful that you're a working pilot, "TSC". :rolleyes: Every employee of a company generally gets a discount on the product they make/sell from their employer. Eg: work at Home Depot and get stuff at cost. It's a benefit that an employer can give at a fraction of the equivalen...
- Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:43 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Air Transat YOW
- Replies: 243
- Views: 42377
Re: Air Transat YOW
Air Transit use to use Servisair(swissport) for their ground handling needs but a few years ago the decided they could save money by giving the contract to ASIG now know as Menzies that lasted one winter as ASIG lost the contract due to poor service such as no staff showing up to work on weekends,th...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
- Topic: Thank you AirCanada
- Replies: 103
- Views: 11168
Re: Thank you AirCanada
Havajava... + 1 ! Proper...just pm me and I will pass your name along. Oh, and please DO NOT use, nor enjoy your C2 pass to London, Paris, or Hong Kong. Please DO NOT ask for the jump seat to Orlando, or Miami etc. As an idependant and wholly owned non Air Canada feeder, you have an excellent agree...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:51 am
- Forum: Jazz Aviation LP - Air Canada Express
- Topic: Heads up
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2031
Heads up
Just a heads up but looks like your going to be traveling as a C-3 instead of C-2 when traveling on mainline flights starting January 1st 2011.I guess now you can really tell people you work for Jazz and not Air Canada.
- Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:14 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: AVCANADA to assume responsibility for regulatory oversight!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1097