All 3 of those typical in the 90% range. All I'll say is that zero conclusion can be drawn from one flight, especially an inaugural. Advertising or marketing pushes, whatever the case may be, has not ever correlated to some high level of performance for inaugurals based on my experience here...

318 of 320 seats filled on WestJet's first Calgary to Paris flight last night.

That'd be bold, in a time of deep uncertainty for them. They need to reassure themselves they can make money with these frames than they will go elsewhere with the 8 more that are on order. I know a lot of people wanted Japan, South America and the moon this morning so they're disappointed, but...

Emirates loads are very strong to YYZ, 80-90%. Certainly not half full.

Can't make it. Highly unlikely.

I'll agree that they suck, but the trisector gates are the basis of the design and the most crucial gates for both WS and AC. Most of the problems can be attributed to the desire to separate int'l, transborder, and domestic outbounds, as opposed to just transborder from everybody else. I keep...

Modern planes just use better numbers in terms of estimating the likely configuration of airlines, weights of passengers, etc. It's not to say Airbus underestimated the burn when they published that number back in 1990 or whenever. And that's still air... when you're fighting an insane headwind...

To say that is a theoretical number is an understatement. That number represents an 8 hour sector in still air. An A319 in a standard config (let alone a Rouge config) could not possibly ever fly that. Heck, an A319neo could not fly that. Herein lies the problem with Googling to derive...

I'd say no given that a) they don't have 737-800, and b) the Rouge 319 has in the past left payload behind westbound on YHZ-YYC.

https://leehamnews.com/2015/06/16/cseries-range-even-better-than-bombardier-revealed/ Calgary-Halifax is just over 2,000nm, absolute child's play for a CS300. Victoria-St. John's is 2,735 nm... this airplane potentially gives Air Canada full coast to coast capability.

Yes they still fly the 88 though it's on the way out, but it's not even a consideration for multiple reasons the primary one being that YYC-ATL exceeds DL's cited range of the 88 and would be significantly longer than anything they fly it on. A220 on paper is a good for but isn't happening for...

Last I heard it was still in discussion. Not like there's a ton of types to choose from but my assumption would be a WestJet 737-700.

To clarify, both sides are definitely working on ATL (and a possible move of seasonal YVR-DTW service to YYC) but nothing is even close to set in stone and there's absolutely nothing resembling a timeline for this.