It's been a month since the last post, you're pathetic. Keeping an eye on the forest is never a bad strategy. I’m sure there are folks at countless operations over the decades who wished they’d paid a little more attention to the larger picture instead of being “shocked” when things suddenly didn’t...

I see the Nathan Sturm-like defensiveness is alive and well in 2025. I was hopeful that utilization could have been maintained during the busy winter sun season. Your point is taken, though. My friends won’t have a problem flying back to YYZ on AC either. Looks like a tough January. Greta won’t be a...

Seething? Or observing? After a couple weeks of increased utilization over the peak holiday season, (or at least the last time I looked which was about a week before Christmas), with utilization peaking at summer like 8hrs 25mins, Porter has drifted back down to early Dec levels, with peak days in t...

How do these rates compare to other airlines operating narrow body twin jets with a network ASL north of 1,400 miles?

Air Canada and United come to mind.

Delta and AA are lower. Southwest was just 736 miles.

Your point is taken. Extensive Xmas travels hither and yon commence this am so the collective desire for “less filling, but tastes great” posts for roughly the next month will be satisfied. It’ll be interesting to see what utilization does over the holiday season and then in the subsequent dog days ...

Pay attention to the macro economics and you’ll be far more educated and in control of your future.

One of the chaps I skate with is a Delta A330 check captain; an original NWA guy.

Nothing surprises him because he’s completely on top of how the industry functions.

Knowledge is power.

Another post chock full of hard information and cagy insight. And people wonder why pilots have so rarely occupied executive positions at any airlines. Here’s a thought. I bet you could get your OTP to 100% if you cut utilization by another 20%. And whilst your at it, why not lower your unit costs b...

Some more interesting hard data. On Thurs Dec 12: Porter's fleet of 42 132 seat E2's generated a total of 101 sectors flown with an ASL of 1,378 miles and fleet utilization of 7hrs 21 mins per tail airtime. Porter generated 437,335 asm's per tail with a total of 13,332 seats in the market. Each tail...

What, you mean people aren’t lining up to play team sports with you? I wish I could say I’m surprised. 8) :lol: We have 70 folks on the roster looking for 20 openings every skate. And 5 goalies. We could always use more goalies. No different anywhere these days. The group have been skating together...

What, you mean people aren’t lining up to play team sports with you? I wish I could say I’m surprised. 8) :lol: We have 70 folks on the roster looking for 20 openings every skate. And 5 goalies. We could always use more goalies. No different anywhere these days. The group have been skating together...

The rest is just noise to be enjoyed on a sunny afternoon in Arizona. Enjoy the warm weather. Maybe try a movie? Actually, the hockey is very good here, 3x weekly, early afternoon weekday ice times heading right into happy hour at the onsite bar, very competitive, but clean and a great bunch of guy...

Merren made a number of very ill advised tactical decisions... :lol: Pretty rich, coming from you... Hands up to all those at PD now who may think they'll do the same with YHU... :rolleyes: :roll: 8) I’m pretty sure that’s the plan. From what I hear, it’s certainly the scenario they were circulatin...

Neither was the $70m pumped into the failed attempt to come up with a proprietary replacement for Open Skies, the millions pumped into the dual bridge concept, the entire 767 fiasco, the botched Sabre cutover. There are many, many others. Good grief. That was 20+ years and 4 airlines ago. And only 1...

exactly - so why are you blaming the failure of Lynx on Merren exactly? You keep talking in circles and not really answering questions. [/quote] Merren made a number of very ill advised tactical decisions, with ultimately the full support and approval of the BoD. There's no point detailing them; the...

Lynx was entirely controlled from a head office a few miles west of where I am, and let’s just say that it’s a place that sees very little rain and has never seen a snowflake other than occasionally on the peak of an iconic nearby hiking trail. Every decision of consequence, be it the decision to h...

You'd be tremendously naive to believe anyone but the folks on Camelback Road controlled every decision of any significance when it came to all things Lynx. Same with Florida controlling everything at Flair, though that is changing. You will note Flair's current CFO lives in a suburb of Atlanta........

And you probably think Beddoe was the majority shareholder of WS. Sure he was. Until January 1996. Why not pick up the phone and have a chat with TM, as those who know him well have done regularly over the past 30+ years? Lynx was entirely controlled from a head office a few miles west of where I am...

[/quote] No revisit necessary. You still can't seem to say it, so let me help you. The correct answer is: "Sorry guys, I was wrong. I incorrectly stated that a statute mile is longer than a nautical mile" There. All you have to do is copy and paste. [/quote] The statute mile distance between two fix...

Last I heard, TM was invested in a nice 150 seat operation stateside that is doing quite well and is not living on a steady diet of Kraft dinner. :lol: Last I heard, TM also cratered his nice 189 seat operation, and was not (likely) living on a steady diet of Kraft dinner, although it may have suit...

Some folks are thick as a brick. Shall we revisit this for the last time? And after that, shall we debate whether or not the earth is flat? One example should suffice: YYZ-YVR is 2,085 statute miles and 1,811 nautical miles. When comparing the two, the statute mile distance, (ie the distance used in...

@realitychexg I don’t know who you’re actually trying to convince. Porter is working. Customer satisfaction scores are high and loads are generally quite full. Take your stats and go play day trader on your computer. Ask the folks in a recent E2 recurrent training class what managements answer was ...

Boeing and Airbus regularly supply airframes to competing airlines. Case in point: both AC and WS operate the Max. If Porter picked up the phone tomorrow, both Airbus and Boeing would happily sell them aircraft. You can be sure both airframers have sales people assigned to the Porter file And I’ll a...

ahh so it really is about cherry picking the things that make Porter as a brand look as weak as possible? Show us on the doll where Deluce touched you. Another clever, data rich analysis. Perhaps you could post something useful when Porter’s fleet utilization reaches 85% of North Amercan industry a...

Duplicate.

No. For all intents and purposes, it’s a distinct, separate operation. The opportunity to connect one to the other are extremely limited. YTZ-YOW-YVR? BOS-YTZ and an uber to YYZ? YHZ-YHU-YYC when there are n/s alternatives? This assumes Porter vacates YUL….or do they run a split Montreal operation, ...