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It's YEG's thread correct, but you in particular bring up YYC an awful lot - for example with flight prices to ORD, how the decline in US travel will "annihilate" them, and now bringing up months-old news about the Husky tankers in response to YYC's new Lufthansa Technik facility. There is a pattern which is why I even said anything to begin with.

Maybe take some of your own advice and keep the YEG thread on topic of YEG and not just complaining about all of the developments south of here. It's counter productive and looks like a desperate attempt at undermining everything the other city does. Edmonton's airport is still great.
 
David A said:
Interesting that we have a higher trans-border percentage. I am guessing the mix is a bit different, perhaps more business travelers there more leisure here.

I could imagine business travel taking a bigger hit initially, but I feel the hit could be similar in the end.
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Yes & in CTV news Calgary clip from yesterday, WS WestJet’s President/CEO mentions WS has seen a 25% drop on sales from Canada🇨🇦into the US🇺🇸, since the Tariffs.

 
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Not entirely related to YEG, but seen in another forum that WS has already started transborder reductions for S25 with this weeks schedule update (YYC-SNA reduced from daily to 4x weekly). Porter also down 30% in transborder apparently.

If Canadians continue their boycott of US travel, the next 4-6 weeks should be interesting to watch, to see what routes get capacity reduced/cut and where WS moves the extra capacity (more domestic or international?)
 
Westendyeg said:
Not entirely related to YEG, but seen in another forum that WS has already started transborder reductions for S25 with this weeks schedule update (YYC-SNA reduced from daily to 4x weekly). Porter also down 30% in transborder apparently.

If Canadians continue their boycott of US travel, the next 4-6 weeks should be interesting to watch, to see what routes get capacity reduced/cut and where WS moves the extra capacity (more domestic or international?)
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Hard for too much more international since the fleet is almost all 737 they are gonna have a tough time stretching things out too much. But they’d be loathe to park metal too if they didn’t have to. Will be fascinating to watch this play out. Unfortunately for us at yeg we finally just got a nice uptick in transborder and there’s definitely risk there now.
 
Westendyeg said:
Not entirely related to YEG, but seen in another forum that WS has already started transborder reductions for S25 with this weeks schedule update (YYC-SNA reduced from daily to 4x weekly). Porter also down 30% in transborder apparently.

If Canadians continue their boycott of US travel, the next 4-6 weeks should be interesting to watch, to see what routes get capacity reduced/cut and where WS moves the extra capacity (more domestic or international?)
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WS will move extra capacity to Domestic flights ✈️, just like Air Canada, Flair and Porter will be doing also too (eventually) in S25.
 

Great to see January numbers out quick. Expected decent growth and that’s what we saw (although thought it could have been even higher). Feb and March might be insightful into how Tariff threats and the exchange rate affect travel.​

January 2025​

Terminal​

  • Terminal Traffic: 558,323 passengers - +11.8%
  • Domestic 404,950 passengers - +12.4%
  • Transborder 73,768 passengers - +18.2%
  • International 79,605 passengers - +3.7%

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Fixed Base Operators (FBO)​

  • 67,662 -+25.5%

Total passengers (Terminal and FBO)​

  • 625,985 passengers - +13.1%

Passenger stats

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If the above keeps up we can finally get back to at or above pre-pandemic levels with ease. Would hate to see something interrupt that as most airports have already long surpassed pre-pandemic levels.
 
When I traveled to DC regularly I loved getting off the plane ad jumping on the metro right away. 15 to my hotel. Then From my meeting it was a short walk down the street to the station and back to the airport.
 
Vanfan123 said:
WS will move extra capacity to Domestic flights ✈️, just like Air Canada, Flair and Porter will be doing also too (eventually) in S25.
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Perhaps, but there is supposedly overcapacity already domestically and Air Canada recently claimed they are not seeing a reduction so far.

I wonder if there will be more a shift in winter travel destinations (ex. more to the Caribbean or Mexico). Some of them also have the benefit of being more affordable than the US.
 
Edmcowboy11 said:
Jumping to a old topic but something I've been reminded of presently. It's so amazing to have a train station at an airport. I am currently in Japan and I have been so delighted to be able to go from the airport directly into Tokyo. We need this to become a reality in Edmonton.
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Now if only we had 5x the airport numbers and 10 x the population.
 
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