Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW/CYOW)

[Dominion301]

Originally Posted by Dominion301

With the arrival of May, that’ll be the end of tracking sun flights until November. Today marks the inaugural PD departures to YQG & YSB and the temporary additional capacity to YDF.

Today’s departure count: 89

Today's cancellation count (so far): 2

With AC 345 on gate 15, it marks the start of it being 5/7 days this month on 321s. The next 789 is next Monday. AF 327 on 17B.

Typo - should've said YYT and not YDF.

Originally Posted by RomanR27

AF is on the 77W today (as it will be a bunch over the next couple months).

With the summer schedule beginning today for AC and PD, as Dominion301 mentioned, YVR NB flights are now on the 321 rather than the 7M8 as the latter will get moved over to Rouge. The first early morning 0500 departure occured, and today only the second morning YVR flight departs at a logical 0930 before moving to the 0655 departure tomorrow. From a frequency standpoint, other than a frequency here and there on YYZ/YUL, I don't believe there are any other changes to AC's network. YYC will be on a 321 this summer, an increase in capacity from previous seasons.

As for PD, YEG is now double daily, YWG is 12x weekly (eventually will be 13x weekly), and YYT is 12x weekly for a while. Like I mentioned, YQM is 12x weekly until mid-June. YYJ returns to daily service. YYC and YVR are both 1x daily until mid-May before they see frequency increases.

For next winter, CUN is still loaded as 7x weekly, and I don't see LIR starting November 1 as the email I got yesterday indicated. Not YOW related, but their press indicated YVR-PHX will be returning and that's not loaded either.

November 1st seems like a mighty early start date for that type of route. I'm kinda surprised PD didn't also announce twice weekly YOW-SJO to compliment LIR as WG used to fly YOW-SJO pre-pandemic.