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[AllseeingEye]

wrong thread, please delete

 

There's a Boeing thread?

[aastra]

 

There's a Boeing thread?

 

How else would they stitch all the parts of the plane together?

[lanforod]

aastra doesn't disappoint. Had me in stitches there even.

[Nparker]

There's a Boeing thread?

Sorry, no. I posted in the wrong thread. Mea culpa.

[Missed Approach]

Well that's not what I was expecting from the VAA.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, it felt like the new CEO has instructed the secretary or admin staff to screen emails.

Got a reply today from the secretary after I asked about the progress of the food services, ie WhiteSpot as well as some green initiatives around air-side ground operations.

The response I received today was " unfortunately Ms. Brown is unavailable to answer your question at this time and wishes for you to bring this inquiry to her attention, during the public input stage at our up coming annual AGM "

 

Just floored.

 

So besides Timmy's, a requirement of any airport in Canada........( wink ) no sit down food options. I understand Compass Food services operates all the outlets. But I don't know if Fresh Cup coffee is still running their small booth in the lower hold room. Last time I pass thru it was closed mid morning.  https://www.victoria...om/at-yyj/food/

 

But Waterloo Kitchener has food service overhaul 

 

https://www.msn.com/...ort/ar-BB1karan

[Nparker]

[vortoozo]

Fresh Cup is operated by Compass and open in the mornings. All the outlets except Fickle Fig are Compass operations.

Not sure what you mean by no sit down option as Spinnakers offers that.

[Mike K.]

Spinnakers is almost always full to the brim when I pass through, with very limited seating.

[AllseeingEye]

We're flying out to Cancun in just over two weeks I'll go pound on her door for you MA and extract the required info....no charge

[Missed Approach]

Not sure what you mean by no sit down option as Spinnakers offers that.

 

I was meaning more than cafe style seating, like booth. Those seats feel very exposed and open without table service. 

[AllseeingEye]

I do understand its comparing apples to oranges - theirs is a truly regional operation with multiple international carriers and routes, and is not sandwiched in between two much larger centres like Vancouver and Seattle - but Stansfield Airport @ Halifax is so much further ahead of YYJ in terms of amenities and services, in spite of the fact the two metro populations are fairly close. It feels like a professional operation while ours.....mm...not so much.

 

They have actual food services, both before and after security, both fast food outlets and several sit down dining options while we have a donut counter and a small boutique counter-style Spinnakers; they have a proper multi-level parkade right outside the front door, while we just continue to chew up real estate by cheaping out laying ever more blacktop or even crushed rock further and further away from the terminal; they also have hotel/motels - multiple options - while we still await construction of a bare bones budget operation located on the very far side of airport lands, if its even technically on YYJ property at all, and finally they actually have direct transit service to the front door while we have to transfer I think at the McTavish roundabout just to get to the physical air terminal. 

 

I lost my wallet last year at YYJ coming home from Halifax and after confirming it had been found, had to go to literally a small hut physically separate from the main building. Kind of feels like they have Secretariat and we have Elsie the Cow.........

[Victoria Watcher]

This is interesting, a fly-in resort in North Carolina:

 

 

 

 

 

YouTube flight in/out:

 

https://youtu.be/A6Z...MyIXOja-Rnu2rdZ

 

The highest runway east of the Mississippi.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 March 2024 - 08:47 AM.

[Missed Approach]

I do understand its comparing apples to oranges - theirs is a truly regional operation with multiple international carriers and routes, and is not sandwiched in between two much larger centres like Vancouver and Seattle - but Stansfield Airport @ Halifax is so much further ahead of YYJ in terms of amenities and services, in spite of the fact the two metro populations are fairly close. It feels like a professional operation while ours.....mm...not so much.

 

They have actual food services, both before and after security, both fast food outlets and several sit down dining options while we have a donut counter and a small boutique counter-style Spinnakers; they have a proper multi-level parkade right outside the front door, while we just continue to chew up real estate by cheaping out laying ever more blacktop or even crushed rock further and further away from the terminal; they also have hotel/motels - multiple options - while we still await construction of a bare bones budget operation located on the very far side of airport lands, if its even technically on YYJ property at all, and finally they actually have direct transit service to the front door while we have to transfer I think at the McTavish roundabout just to get to the physical air terminal. 

 

I lost my wallet last year at YYJ coming home from Halifax and after confirming it had been found, had to go to literally a small hut physically separate from the main building. Kind of feels like they have Secretariat and we have Elsie the Cow.........

 

Bang on!!! couldn't been said better. . . . . . . . . . . But don't forget, something we have that NO OTHER AIRPORT has, a Gin tasting counter and shop. YYJ is way ahead of the times. No FOOD for YOU! 

 

Side note, the security building you had to go in search of use to be an old RCMP sub office, there is still two poisoner cells in the back and a sally port bay.

[AllseeingEye]

Bang on!!! couldn't been said better. . . . . . . . . . . But don't forget, something we have that NO OTHER AIRPORT has, a Gin tasting counter and shop. YYJ is way ahead of the times. No FOOD for YOU! 

 

Side note, the security building you had to go in search of use to be an old RCMP sub office, there is still two poisoner cells in the back and a sally port bay.

 

Hm.....I may well take advantage of the gin tasting option before jumping on that Boeing MAX in two weeks

[Missed Approach]

WestJet Encore Pilots will be staging an Information Picket at YYC as they continue with negotiating for a new collective contract.

Talks are stalled and frustration levels are growing between pilots and the mainline carrier.

I have a few friends flying for Encore that have said, pay is among the main points while 1/3 of the fleer remains parked and routes normally flown by Encore have been taken over by either mainline WJ or PCA. 

If this drags on into the summer, job action is expected. No one wants a strike but they have been treated poorly by WJ for years.   

[Mike K.]

Would this stem from the Onyx takeover?

[Victoria Watcher]

Onex:

https://globalnews.c...jet-buyout/amp/

[AllseeingEye]

WestJet Encore Pilots will be staging an Information Picket at YYC as they continue with negotiating for a new collective contract.

Talks are stalled and frustration levels are growing between pilots and the mainline carrier.

I have a few friends flying for Encore that have said, pay is among the main points while 1/3 of the fleer remains parked and routes normally flown by Encore have been taken over by either mainline WJ or PCA. 

If this drags on into the summer, job action is expected. No one wants a strike but they have been treated poorly by WJ for years.   

 

Jeez WJ has sure strayed away from the vision of its original founders; one of them, Mark Hill, was a good buddy during our university years and I stayed in close touch up to and well after he and Clive & Co founded the company. I guess starting off as a David challenging Goliath inevitably means that if you're successful in many ways you become just like the Goliath eventually. Too bad.

[LJ]

Would this stem from the Onyx takeover?

Yes, Onyx buys companies and strips the value out of them, then sells them.

[Missed Approach]

We may not see Flair this spring or summer. News hitting the wires now they are cutting 600 flights but not giving specifics.

All news outlets posting the same story, very vague on which routes.