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BrettB
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Stats Canada recently released new data on the number of screened passengers at YEG:
| Screened traffic | January 2025 | February 2025 | March 2025 | April 2025 | May 2025 |
| Total passengers | 267,449 | 248,392 | 269,497 | 262,533 | 287,086 |
| Domestic | 189,283 | 172,104 | 189,332 | 200,625 | 249,122 |
| Transborder | 37,989 | 40,363 | 43,138 | 35,319 | 29,400 |
| Other international | 40,177 | 35,925 | 37,027 | 26,589 | 8,564 |
blue12
Active Member
Westjet will be adding YEG-MBJ this winter starting in November. This is a part of their new “partnership” (ownership) of Sunwing Vacations.
Glenco
Senior Member
MacLac
Senior Member
Nice! $800M+ PLUS 1000 jobs! Unlike YYC’s failed-never-to-break-ground De Havilland Fire bomber “campus” this will see the light of day. Kinda helps having a hometown PM I guess?!
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Markyeg
Active Member
Only 1x weekly, while YYC got 5 new routes. Panama City and Guadalajara are interesting additions.
MacLac
Senior Member
WJ desperately trying to hold back bankruptcy and ensuring YYC is making their $53M monthly interest payments on their new terminal.....
Friendmonton
Active Member
Have they been struggling?
MacLac
Senior Member
Privately held company so no exact details - but how do you think they have been doing? Even with the "revenge travel" after COVID - and after Big Daddy Trump's rhetoric - do you think their business "model" of flying all overseas flights out of YYC makes sense? They expect folks from YVR, TO and MTL to fly to YYC to catch a flight to Europe? I've heard they are fire bagging rates as low as $99 each way on the 787. One guy I know in NRT paid that much at the last minute to come back to AB....go figure?!.
MacLac
Senior Member
Breaking ground on CFB Trenton’s new Strategic Tanker Transport Capability - Canadian Defence Review
Minister David McGuinty participated in a groundbreaking ceremony at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton to mark the start of construction on a major infrastructure project that will support the Strategic Tanker Transport Capability (STTC) project.
canadiandefencereview.com
“while a second MOB under development in Edmonton will be able to support up to three and the creation of up to 1,000 jobs”
blue12
Active Member
This is great for Edmonton and YEG, but not everything has to be some competition with YYC. I don’t think anybody saw this positive news as such. This whole schtick is getting pretty tired.
David A
Senior Member
Every time something good happens in YYC we tend to get it shoved down our throats whether we care to hear about it or not, so I feel the negative posts about them may be a reaction to that which is also tiring.
blue12
Active Member
Both are tiring, but this just feels pretty childish to me. We can love our city for what it’s worth rather than resorting to turning the YEG-Thread into a Trash-YYC-Thread.
MacLac
Senior Member
Oh yeah? Well what’s your schtick? Not contributing anything to the discussion? Well if that’s the case, keep it up…you’re doing great work!
ChazYEG
Senior Member
Doing the whole YEG v YYC thing at every turn doesn't contribute anything either... just saying