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[Victoria Watcher]

When we discussed the airport promoting itself, the CEO said there is little appetite for self-promotion.




entities promote themselves all the time. Including most airports. why not here?

[Missed Approach]

who is in charge of pushing the airport to be better?  a lot of complacency at the board level due to a thinking that we are the only airport and thus there is no alternative - even though those stare us in the face (vancouver seattle and bellingham).

 

I can tell you as someone who once worked at YYJ for many years (ago) for an airline, I can tell you with certainty, it's an old gentlemen's cigar club approach upstairs. It's stale, stuffy and very dry management team and board members. The community meetings are just a necessary step they "have to do", it almost feels like Hogwarts where they dislike mixing with the public or engaging with the public. It's why I think of it as the Oak Bay International Airport. It is time for change, it needs new blood. The 2 millionth passenger event in 2018 and Air North starting new service are the only public celebration the VAA has ever held. Any other airport markets and celebrates big time for any reason for a new route or airline. Heck the first EVER water gun salute was a suggestion given to the VAA on Air North's first scheduled arrival.

Again, don't disturbed them, don't rock the boat, don't stir anything. it's like they tip toe around, shhhhhhhh. 

[shoeflack]

YYJ’s CEO is out to lunch, quite frankly.

[todd]

YYJ’s CEO is out to lunch, quite frankly.

But it’s past dinner time.

[shoeflack]

But it’s past dinner time.

Which tells you all you need to know about the guy!

[todd]

Which tells you all you need to know about the guy!

OMG

[todd]

Do you think we should notify somebody? Maybe he said something to his administrative assistant?

[SamCB]

Timely talk about promotion- YYJ made the front page of reddit today: https://reddit.app.link/WsGkXnv4X2

Would a more savvy airport leadership be able to run with this gag?

[Rob Randall]

There’s a pretty little part of South West London where dead people fall from the sky. It’s a perfectly charming area. The bodies don’t fall on it all the time, of course, only more frequently than one might have obvious reason to suspect in Richmond-on-Thames, East Sheen, and Clapham Old Town, neighbourhoods ordinarily reputed for their high concentrations of French patisseries, Victorian terraced houses, and Fox & Etc.-ish pubs.

 

The first one plummeted into a supermarket parking lot that was then under construction. That was in 1996. Two years later, a couple on a date swore they saw a second body hit the same spot, though this has never been confirmed. Another few years, another dead person in another parking lot, this one across from the supermarket which had by then been completed. The area received a decade-long reprieve from the bodies after that, but nothing lasts forever. In 2012 residents found one on a leafy side street; then, in 2015, on an air-conditioning unit on top of an office building. And this past summer, the latest: It plunged headlong into a walled back garden, neatly cracking the pavement open and landing next to a sunbather who responded with an appropriate mixture of shock and horror. That is supposed to have been the nearest near-miss.

 

 

 

https://www.macleans...l-from-the-sky/

[Mike K.]

Ah, yes, the ol’ stowaways falling out of aircraft.

[Missed Approach]

Kelowna ( YLW ) getting Air Canada ( Mainline ) Boeing 767-300 service starting this month, to Toronto ( YYZ ) - with a catch....

 

https://www.routeson...ce-in-jan-2020/

[Missed Approach]

Denver ….

 

Still a ways off from completion and those gates are almost all spoken for...…. 

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=1kt7ijRMUsg

[Missed Approach]

**** HOLD UP, wait a minute, put a little change in it ****

 

Just went poking around Kelowna's ( YLW ) website to see if they had released their Year ending stats......and low and behold -

 

There's a * at the bottem of the page. Regarding Dec 2019.

 

*Note: Due to a reporting error being identified, these numbers were updated in January 2020.

 

Last year, they topped out at what they said on Jan 11, 2019 with 2,080,372 passengers.

 

Today they said a recount had them actually at 2,059,030*

 

YYJ finished 2019 with 2,048,627, that was a lot closer after the recount.

[Jackerbie]

 

That's one big bird! West Jet flight WS209 (I think) from YYC to YYJ was diverted to YVR following a bird strike this morning. via https://www.citynews...-westjet-plane/

[lanforod]

Small bird at cruising speed could do it too, I'd guess . That's probably not cheap to repair, wouldn't be surprised if there is some expensive stuff in that nose too.

[Victoria Watcher]

was one big bird.  rip.

[Mike K.]

He accepted the challenge though.

[shoeflack]

Spoke to someone who was on this flight. Apparently it was quite the gaggle of geese. He said one of the engines blew in addition to the nose damage. CHEK has a nice photo of a pickup truck full of the culprits.

 

Damn geese!

[LJ]

Small bird at cruising speed could do it too, I'd guess . That's probably not cheap to repair, wouldn't be surprised if there is some expensive stuff in that nose too.

Wouldn't be hitting too many birds at cruising speed, no birds up there.

The radome is contained in the nose and it is expensive.

[AllseeingEye]

World wide this is not really that uncommon of an occurrence: here is a 737 in an image from 2009 after descending for a landing at Naples and striking a sea gull at 10,000 feet @ 300kts. Beyond the dent visible in the nose, the plane including the nav radar housed in the nose cone, suffered no damage.

 

 

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