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Could be, as I couldn't see any helicopters on FR24. Military aircraft (especially helicopters), for the most part, don't appear on FR24.

Heard the noises too, as I live in Laval. Can't say what it was. I wasn't working last night. There is a post on facebook (55e avenue -spotteurs) suggesting 3 helicopters were flying over Laval for around 30 minutes. Could be related to that. I don't know anything about diversions. We are on single runway ops for the next 2 months, so there is that, but I'm not aware of any incidents last night causing diversions.

That happens every year. (And a difference of almost 30,000 is pretty big.) If you notice the numbers for 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 in that same document, they are all different from what was posted end of each of those years. It's kind of annoying, if you ask me. Do the job once, and do it correctly.

YUL-ICN will be full of Chinese. All the demand for China is flowing through Japan and South Korea. Hence the upgauge in equipment on YUL-NRT and the launch of YUL-ICN. They are essentially replacing our lost YUL-PVG with this new YUL-ICN.

Very good news indeed. But AC will be dropping Cairo in order to free up the frame for this flight. Still, Seoul is a global alpha city, and a far more important destination to have than Cairo (a beta city). Plus, there is still the odd chance Egyptair resumes YUL in the future. Not much slack left in the bilateral however, but if MS get creative, they can make it happen.

Summer 2024 airside construction season is near. Next month, work will commence on two fronts at YUL. 1. Construction of new taxiways M and N will continue. Work to be done from March 11 to June 21. (Taxiway M will run parallel to B, between E and B3.) These new taxiways will be needed in the coming years, when runway 06R/24L closes completely for resurfacing work. https://www.navcanada.ca/en/01sup2024en.pdf 2. Full rehabilitation of Runway 06R/24L pavement between Taxiway A3 and threshold 24L (that part of the runway is in very bad shape), and the expansion of the holding bay 24L to create new Taxiways A5 and A7 (see link below). This will be done so that two 777s can be in the holding bay, side by side. Something that can't be done today. In fact, the only holding bay that can accommodate two widebodies side by side at the moment is 06R. So this is much needed work, considering 24L is our primary departure runway, and often times aircraft arrive in the holding bay and aren't ready for takeoff yet, or have a snag to work out, meaning widebodies behind them get held up unnecessarily (sometimes they're not even comfortable passing next to narrowbodies). Work will commence March 25 and will last until November 15. With the construction of A7 taxiway, runway 24L will be lengthened by 200ft (9,800ft total for the takeoff run). The extra 200ft will come in handy for flights to DEL or NRT, which often times request 24R (the longer runway) for departure. https://www.navcanada.ca/en/08sup2024en.pdf Unlike landside, where ADM has dropped the ball bigtime and has major catchup work to do, at least airside, they are finally taking the right decisions in order to achieve aircraft movement efficiency. Now if only they can finish up their master plan and publish it already. Last one was published 11 years ago, and is completely outdated. I'm eager to find out what their plan is for the terminal expansion and/or new terminal.

What a moron. I wonder if she will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law in the US as well, considering she was on a US airline operating a US registered aircraft. Also, chances are she started smoking while the plane was still in US airspace.

Après YYZ, oui. En terme de porte d’entrée au pays, c’est: 1. YYZ 2. YUL 3. YVR et avec les recent additions internationaux à YUL, la marge entre nous et Vancouver augmente. Il y a pas grand chose qui se passe à YVR ses temps-ci.

^ and briefly during the pandemic as well. It was to be expected. YUL handles way more international passengers compared to YYC. (We handle more than YVR as well 😏) So it was only natural that when borders closed during the pandemic, our numbers were hit more than YYC, which is ~70% domestic pax. We’re ~70% international.

Forgot the increases of Azores Airlines, so I added it above.

Probably around 26 or 27 million, assuming a year round average load factor of ~80% for all carriers. If the average load factor is closer to 90%, then its around 24 million.

So apart from all the new international service that will commence at YUL this year (AC, AV, SY etc), there are a lot of small increases here and there by foreign carriers which have mostly gone unnoticed (well maybe not on this forum ! 😉), but put together, add up to quite a decent increase. TAP Austrian Air France Air Algerie Royal Air Maroc Azores Airlines Copa Another country that had it's bilateral limit increased is Jordan. The limit went up from 3x weekly to 7x weekly, but RJ's schedule for YYZ/YUL is still at 3x weekly for S24. That might still change, of course, so let's see.

Il semblerait que Royal Air Maroc a de la misère avec les valises ces temps-ci ! https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2024/01/28/saga-des-valises-egarees-adm-forcee-dentreposer-des-bagages-de-clients-de-royal-air-maroc

Lynx starting YUL-LAX on July 11. Initially 3x weekly, going up to daily service a month later. https://financialpost.com/globe-newswire/lynx-air-announces-new-route-between-montreal-and-los-angeles

I believe so. Continental used to fly from EWR to YUL with 737 classics until the early 2000s, but I don’t believe UA ever did, pre or post-merger. I noticed that too. Lack of gates means they’ll push back and go and wait at the deicing facility for their wheels up, so at least they’ll be out of your hair!

I get what you are saying, but that's not how it works. The booking engine won't let you book 2 R/Ts in your scenario. If X number of seats are blocked on BOG-YUL, you will only be able to book a R/T on (180 - X) seats. Once that limit is reached, the booking engine won't allow you to book a R/T anymore. No one is getting stuck in BOG.

Looks like UA will be sending mainline A319s to YUL on a summer seasonal basis from both ORD and EWR next summer. As of August 1. First time ever UA mainline is coming to YUL I believe. Double daily to each. ORD UA762 ORD1400-1720YUL 319 D UA2039 ORD1810-2129YUL 319 D UA1296 YUL0615-0751ORD 319 D UA1066 YUL1650-1826ORD 319 D EWR UA452 EWR1415-1551YUL 319 D UA1708 EWR2024-2206YUL 319 D UA1671 YUL0600-0728EWR 319 D UA742 YUL1830-2014EWR 319 D

I don't think that's how it works. There is no need to block seats on the return flight to BOG. That would be a potential loss of revenue. You block X number of seats from BOG, based on the performance limitations of the aircraft. That's it. Whether people book R/T or one way is a secondary issue. After having checked the A320 ACAPS document, a departure from 8,000ft altitude for the A320neo, in ISA conditions, would require a ~20,000lb payload hit. That's the weight of around 60 passengers and bags. So it all seems to make sense.

Noticed something interesting about Avianca's YUL announcement. https://www.avianca.com/en/about-us/av-news/2024/enero-10/ We know BOG is at over 8,000ft altitude, meaning aircraft taking off from BOG on long distance flights often have to leave seats open. BOG-YUL will be flown by a 180 seat A320 (neo, most likely). They are saying they will offer 1200 seats/week on the route. However, 180x4x2 is 1440 seats. That's a difference of 240 seats. So if these numbers are accurate, it looks like AV will block off 60 seats from BOG to YUL on each flight. The return flights back to BOG shouldn't have any blocked seats. I find 60 seats is a lot of blocked seats. That's a third of the seats ! Again, all of this assuming these numbers are accurate.

I mean, the gate numbers are correct for the flights. The letters used might be wrong, but it's the same gate. Whether they write D72 or C72 on the FIDS is not really relevant. The maps on the YYC page are accurate. All those gates you highlighted (74 for FRA, 71 for LAS, 72 for Firebag and 78 for LHR) concur with the maps, The lettering might be off, but that's it. Also important to note, YYC used to have a sterile international terminal, like YUL currently does. That's not the case anymore. That's why they can have domestic flights depart from there. So you are right that theoretically, they can now use all the international (non US) gates for domestic if they wanted to. That probably hasn't been updated on the maps. But that's about it. The rest is all accurate. If ever YYC reactivates the sterile international terminal, you won't be able to mingle with international passengers either.

There are 2 Thai Expresses in the international terminal. One for domestic/international passengers, and one for transborder only. I can assure you transboder pax don't mingle with domestic/international.

Not accurate at all. Like others have said, the US side is totaly sterile from the rest. It has to be. It's a USCBP requirement. And all gates are definately not interchangeable between domestic/Intl/US, as you claim. There are limits to each. According to their online maps, there are only 4 gates that can be used for domestic flights in the new international terminal. C70, 71, 72 and 73. Also, gates 88 to 97 are exclusive for transborder use, just like gates 76, 77, 78 and 79 are exclusive for international use. https://www.yyc.com/en-us/navigatingyyc/maps.aspx As for the dining options at YYC Transborder, I wouldn't say it's any better than YUL. Only 2 sit down options to eat, and even if one of them is a bit more upscale, the rest is all very average stuff, and unlike YUL, doesn't have any local flavour. Burger King Thai Express Opa of Greece Starbucks Jugo Juice The Kitchen by Wolfgang Puck (sit down restaurant) Belgian Beer Cafe (sit down restaurant) Vino Volo (wine bar, with small plate food options) Bearspaw cafe

It might not be upscale, but I find it represents Montreal perfectly. Definately locally-inspired. That's why there is a Hurley's, Lester's Deli and a bagel shop. How much more Montreal do you want it to get? Besides, most people don't want upscale when they are travelling. They want quick and easy. And the offering is just that, with the "local twist" you mentioned. Sit down restaurants Houston's, Urban Crave, Hurley's Irish Pub The rest YUL pizza, Lester's Deli, Cafe Montreal Bagel, Le petit comptoir a Sandwich, Ryu Sushi, StarBucks, Tim Hortons https://www.admtl.com/en/shopping/restaurants/depart/zone-reglementee-etats-unis

^ lol Actually, it's even worse than that. According to their 2013 master plan, they were only predicting to hit 18 million passengers this year and 22 million passengers by 2033 only. We're almost at 22 million now, 10 years ahead of schedule. So it's bad either way. We overestimated the traffic 40-50 years ago, and ADM underestimated nowadays. Ridiculous and amateurish at best. (still waiting for that new master plan....btw) As for this year's December prediction, I think Dec 2023 will be 11% higher than Dec 2022, so we'll finish the year with around 21.1 million passengers. 😉

I agree. Also, it will be interesting to see how RJ handles the additional 4x weekly frequencies. Splitting YUL/YYZ would be the best move. 4x weekly to YUL, 3x weekly to YYZ, non stop. Maybe even a 5/2 split, depending on demand to YYZ.