Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

[asyncpulse]

Video of what the Kitchener to Toronto flight looked like in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJWF9E99UnM

I forgot I had this footage, not sure if FlyGTA still run this.

[jeffster]

Video of what the Kitchener to Toronto flight looked like in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJWF9E99UnM

I forgot I had this footage, not sure if FlyGTA still run this.

I think they do. Gave you a thumbs up on YT....

[tomh009]

Next winter as in 6-7 months from now? This is amazing news and will make our travels to Cozumel that much easier!

*edit: It is this winter, the Cancun flight appears to be leaving/returning on Wednesdays. Not ideal, but better than schlepping through Pearson.

I wonder why they're going Wednesdays, a weekend flight would seem to make far more sense.

Presumably they have some higher-revenue-opportunity flights for those aircraft on weekends. You can bet that they will be flying every day of the week; the airlines then optimize the schedules to maximize revenue.

[danbrotherston]

I wonder why they're going Wednesdays, a weekend flight would seem to make far more sense.

Presumably they have some higher-revenue-opportunity flights for those aircraft on weekends. You can bet that they will be flying every day of the week; the airlines then optimize the schedules to maximize revenue.

This is a good point.

Airline economics are interesting.

[SammyOES]

Are the flights to Toronto ending? I was looking on the FlyGTA site for a date in October but there doesn’t seem to be anything available after the end of August.

[Coke6pk]

It's been months since I've seen them here....

[bgb_ca]

I noticed a low flying commercial jet a few minutes ago, and was curious what flight it was. It showed up on flightaware as a sunwing 737 from Hamilton. I thought this was highly strange as I thought sunwing canceled the flights from ykf due to covid.

[panamaniac]

I don't know if it's accurate, but I had read somewhere that YKF was being used to park a number of aircraft that had been taken out of service. Anybody been out there?

[jeffster]

I noticed a low flying commercial jet a few minutes ago, and was curious what flight it was. It showed up on flightaware as a sunwing 737 from Hamilton. I thought this was highly strange as I thought sunwing canceled the flights from ykf due to covid.

I saw that too. My first though that it was a WestJet from Calgary -- but unsure if those flights are still on, plus this one didn't actually look like a WestJet.

[timio]

There was a release earlier this week that said the secondary runway and taxiway was going to be closed to allow storage of unused planes.

Our Secondary Runway and Taxiway B will close Sunday, March 22, 2020 for approximately one month to accommodate parking of commercial aircraft grounded in response to the global pandemic.

Edit:  Adding link and quote.

[bgb_ca]

There was a release earlier this week that said the secondary runway and taxiway was going to be closed to allow storage of unused planes.

Our Secondary Runway and Taxiway B will close Sunday, March 22, 2020 for approximately one month to accommodate parking of commercial aircraft grounded in response to the global pandemic.

Edit:  Adding link and quote.

Ah thanks. I looked at ykf's history for today on flightaware, and it showed two sunwing planes from Edmonton, two from Toronto, and the one from Hamilton I saw earlier so I guess sunwing are parking them here.

[taylortbb]

There's a photo on Reddit of several parked Sunwing planes at YKF. https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...t_waterloo

[panamaniac]

A bit of revenue for YKF in slow times ...

[Rainrider22]

WOW.. Picture looks cool

[bgb_ca]

If I am reading Flightaware correct, there are 13 of them here now. Tails C-GYUK, C-GTUO, C-GNCH, C-GFEH, C-GBZS, C-FYJD, C-FWGH, C-FTUN, C-FTOH, C-FJVE, C-FIUM, C-FPRP AND C-FFPH.