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I agree with the pick up area east of the parkade. It actually works really well as it is much less busy than the front arrivals area. It would be a great addition if the walkway there was more climate controlled in the winter. We got back last week from a trip and met our ride over there and the walk over was jarring but the heated waiting area was nice.

I wonder if the tower rehabilitation will include a rehab of the arrivals level waiting lounge that was there at one point. Maybe use it as a kind of "transit center" of sorts.
 
I just got notified that on my Delta-Westjet flight returning from South America on March 7 that my leg from ATL to YEG has been switched out to ATL-YYC-YEG - with the dreaded 2:52 layover in Calgary. I try not to hate WS this happens so often that WS has become my airline of last resort when flying internationally. I feel bad for EIA officials, as they have worked so hard trying to get more transborder routes only to have the Trump effect hurt them. Luckily, I can still do one stop with a long layover at IAH with United, or fly the next day with Air Canada via YYZ.
 
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Monthly passenger stats November 2025​

  • Domestic: 431,221 passengers (Year-to-date 5,617,610 passengers)- 2.6% (Year-to-date 6.1%)
  • Transborder: 64,620 passengers (Year-to-date 742,733 passengers) -20.0% (Year-to-date -14.0%)
  • International: 60,092 passengers (Year-to-date 447,726 passengers) 4.1% (Year-to-date -1.1%)
  • Fixed Base Operators (FBO): 48,030 passengers (Year-to-date 649,256 passengers) -24.5% (Year-to-date 1.3%)
  • Total: 603,963 passengers (Year-to-date 7,457,325 passengers) -6.3% (Year-to-date 2.8%)

Passenger stats

Explore Edmonton International Airport passenger statistics, trends, and insights for arrivals, departures, and annual traffic at YEG.
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Yikes and WOW is Edmonton getting rouge-screwed by AC. I was looking at April flights and on the day in question there were only two mainline AC flights. The majority were Rouge, followed by Jazz and then mainline.

I know AC has a long-established ambivalence toward Edmonton, but why salt their own field by practically pushing people away from their planes? The pitch alone on Rouge is enough to practically break Geneva Conventions.
 
Offworld said:
Yikes and WOW is Edmonton getting rouge-screwed by AC. I was looking at April flights and on the day in question there were only two mainline AC flights. The majority were Rouge, followed by Jazz and then mainline.

I know AC has a long-established ambivalence toward Edmonton, but why salt their own field by practically pushing people away from their planes? The pitch alone on Rouge is enough to practically break Geneva Conventions.
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It won’t be the Rouge 320/321s, it’ll be on the 737 MAX 8s which have a slightly more comfortable cabin than the current Rouge.

That being said, AC chose to swap 2-3 daily YVR-YEG frequencies over to Rouge for 2026, announced a few weeks ago as a part of their YVR Rouge base additions. YVR-YLW was also switched over 1-2x daily as well as 5 cities in Mexico and 3 in the US.
 
Since we’re complaining about YEG getting screwed over, may as well add that WS is axing YEG-SLC for S26.
 
On SSP it was mentioned that we're S26 - does that mean Spring or Summer? That we're down to 2 weekly until April than back up to 5 weekly for May....not true?
 
Markyeg said:
Since we’re complaining about YEG getting screwed over, may as well add that WS is axing YEG-SLC for S26.
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Well we are all used to getting screwed by Air Canada and WestJet over the years. Probably partly why there are now a couple of other airlines here now.

I can sort of understand not being AC's priority as they are more focused on the east, but the other one occasionally says some nice things and then it turns to crap.
 
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Well we are all used to getting screwed by Air Canada and WestJet over the years. Probably partly why there are now a couple of other airlines here now.

I can sort of understand not being AC's priority as they are more focused on the east, but the other one occasionally says some nice things and then it turns to crap.
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I think WS probably has good data which suggests it doesn't need to provide good service to Edmonton. WS is only concerned with filling planes from Calgary. It doesn't matter how big Edmontons market will become, because until airlines stop embracing the hub and spoke model, Edmontonians will always have crap transborder and international service. I would guess for every seat sold between YEG and YYC, there is at least an equivalent number of passengers that save money and drive to YYC. Especially families .... I know many friends and family who make the drive every holiday.
 
I realize the expectations of airlines, especially the existing duopoly in Canada are very low, but I don't feel "good data" ever really supports bad service when you are in a service business.

Again, this is exactly why we have other airlines now gaining a foothold in markets in Canada. WJ started and actually gained a lot of traction by being better than AC, but they now seem to forgotten what led to their success.
 
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