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RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - JJTL - 08-16-2017

Looks like Saturday August 26th is the 3rd annual Aviation Fun Day at the airport. 10am to 4pm. Smile

http://www.waterlooairport.ca/en/abouttheairport/aviation-fun-day.asp?_mid_=35752

Event details and map: http://www.waterlooairport.ca/en/resources/Accessible-PDFs-2017/Aviation-Fun-Day-at-YKF-2017---Event-List-and-Site-Plan.-ACCESS-Aug-11_2017.pdf


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - panamaniac - 08-17-2017

Has there been anything in the local news to indicate the purpose of Min. Garneau's visit to YKF and YHM yesterday?


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Canard - 08-17-2017

Marwan had a bunch of photos on his Facebook page, but nothing of substance. There was one interesting shot of the meeting at the airport with Tom sitting next to a board with a map showing an HSR connection, which I thought was rather exciting...


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - tomh009 - 08-18-2017

Could be related to the YYZ initiative to create a transport hub, and connect it to other airports using HSR?


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Coke6pk - 08-21-2017

Sad YKF news, WestJet will not be returning the Orlando flight to YKF this winter season. We will just have one Sunwing per week, and a daily Calgary. [Which is moving to an early morning departure/arrival. This may be beneficial for making connections in Calgary, but I think it will be the death of both of the cafe's that the Edelweiss runs in the airport... The one in the public area is closing, the one in departures will be on shaky ground, esp. since there will be no alcohol sales (as flights will be at 6 am) ]

Coke


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Canard - 08-21-2017

Bummer, I was hoping they'd actually expand the Orlando flight to run year-round. I typically go in October, out of Buffalo with Southwest and a local option is super-appealing.

This is such a rinse-and-repeat problem. Some airline comes and dips their toe in YKF, won't fully submerge, and then goes "No it's too cold" and runs away.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Viewfromthe42 - 08-21-2017

It goes both ways, too. People say they want flights out of YKF, then get an option out of YKF, then say "no, I can get cheaper tickets from Buffalo or Pearson" and don't fly, and then the flight disappears.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Canard - 08-21-2017

Right, but I'm not paying double to fly out of YKF. There's some ratio I'm willing to pay a little more for (1.1x?) and I'd probably go as high as 1.3x over Pearson since I hate flying out of it so much, but it was like 2x or 3x or something over BUF. And didn't fly when I wanted to go. So... yeah.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Viewfromthe42 - 08-21-2017

And that's something that's hard to work with. Buffalo has the capacity (in runways and in population draw) to offer many more departure/arrival times to many more places with a greater chance of them being immediately full. We don't, so unless we can change some part of the equation, it's not easy to justify offering us service as a main hub, let alone as an airport only served for a single route of a large corporation (the case with everyone currently operating out of there).


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - plam - 08-21-2017

(08-21-2017, 05:40 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: And that's something that's hard to work with. Buffalo has the capacity (in runways and in population draw) to offer many more departure/arrival times to many more places with a greater chance of them being immediately full. We don't, so unless we can change some part of the equation, it's not easy to justify offering us service as a main hub, let alone as an airport only served for a single route of a large corporation (the case with everyone currently operating out of there).

Not sure why, but I haven't flown out of BUF for a while now. I think that part of it was that US Airways had a better network than the three United flights out of there, and if I'm going to drive 2 hours, I better get some status miles from it.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Canard - 08-22-2017

Southwest is always my first choice. Great fares, and I've always, 100% had a positive experience with them.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Chris - 08-28-2017

(08-21-2017, 10:01 AM)Coke6pk Wrote: Sad YKF news, WestJet will not be returning the Orlando flight to YKF this winter season.  We will just have one Sunwing per week, and a daily Calgary.  [Which is moving to an early morning departure/arrival.  This may be beneficial for making connections in Calgary, but I think it will be the death of both of the cafe's that the Edelweiss runs in the airport... The one in the public area is closing, the one in departures will be on shaky ground, esp. since there will be no alcohol sales (as flights will be at 6 am) ]

Coke

While 6:15 is a little early I do like this option that we can now connect in Calgary to get to the west coast.

I would have also liked to see Orlando expanded, sad that it's going away.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - timio - 08-28-2017

I connected through to Victoria recently, although landing at 1115 local was a bit late.


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Elmira Guy - 09-06-2017

‘We have cancelled the non-stop seasonal flight from Waterloo to Orlando’: WestJet

http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/we-have-cancelled-the-non-stop-seasonal-flight-from-waterloo-to-orlando-westjet-1.3576878


RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - Coke6pk - 09-06-2017

(09-06-2017, 11:34 AM)Elmira Guy Wrote: ‘We have cancelled the non-stop seasonal flight from Waterloo to Orlando’: WestJet

http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/we-have-cancelled-the-non-stop-seasonal-flight-from-waterloo-to-orlando-westjet-1.3576878

Breaking news.... You heard it from Coke in August! ;Wink 

Now I know how insider feels! LOL