I was wondering were local news has been lately. I was told yesterday that aircanada express or jazz or wo ever you wanna call them, have slated the closure of several bases. prince Rupert, sandspit and smithers.
funny how only a short period of time ago terrace made an announcement that flights are increasing there. I see this as the greatest boldest move to make Terrace a truly regional airport.
Several jobs to be effected. union right now is arguing these routes are profitable and are going to arbitration at the end of the month to fight these closures.
I heard the same news but it is not for sure. We will have to wait till March to hear the final decision and outcome. I am thinking it has to do with an agreement with West Jet but that is just a speculation.
[quote=“mcsash”]I was wondering were local news has been lately. I was told yesterday that aircanada express or jazz or wo ever you wanna call them, have slated the closure of several bases. prince Rupert, sandspit and smithers.
funny how only a short period of time ago terrace made an announcement that flights are increasing there. I see this as the greatest boldest move to make Terrace a truly regional airport.
Several jobs to be effected. union right now is arguing these routes are profitable and are going to arbitration at the end of the month to fight these closures.
This will effect travel on and out of PR[/quote]
Would the person who told you this information be the same dude that saw the “Cougar”?
[quote=“mcsash”]I was wondering were local news has been lately. I was told yesterday that aircanada express or jazz or wo ever you wanna call them, have slated the closure of several bases. prince Rupert, sandspit and smithers.
funny how only a short period of time ago terrace made an announcement that flights are increasing there. I see this as the greatest boldest move to make Terrace a truly regional airport.
Several jobs to be effected. union right now is arguing these routes are profitable and are going to arbitration at the end of the month to fight these closures.
This will effect travel on and out of PR[/quote]
I really hope this does not happen, it will be a blow to Jazz workers.
Extra summer flights for Terrace and an extra for Smithers. I haven’t flown much but both return trips were prettuy much full for Rupert and 3 were midweek flights.
[quote=“PLA”]Air Canada Jazz has an actual base in YPR?
lol[/quote]
Really, do they? I thought the planes overnighted in Vancouver? What constitutes a “base” ?
Westjet will only move into a market where they can guarantee a 737 almost full every flight. That’s not really the case in Prince Rupert, but they could make a go of it in Terrace. They’d also attract passengers from Prince Rupert & Smithers. I know I’ve driven all the way to Prince George for a Westjet vacation deal.
A base would be something similar like HeliJet’s Seal Cove Hangar. Would normally consists of a base manager, a few AMEs, and whatever maintenance equipments they have.
You guys are fully aware that WestJet is launching their own regional airline called WestJet Encore, eh? WestJet Encore is all Bombardier Q400 (Glorified version of Dash 8-400)
