FAQs on the flight school webpage shows $145K plus expenses to join this cadet program.

As a former employee at Porter, I cannot see how this route will be feasible. Using winter weights they will constantly be bumping passengers. It will be an operational nightmare and under the Canadian law if they bump the passenger they are required to get them to their destination on another carr...

How doe you stop a Q400 if the other engine quits? Many decades ago we looked at this with the -300 and at that time the concern was that in that (unlikely) event all you had left was to apply the park brake. When you looked at it "many decades ago", it would not have been an approved procedure fro...

Rockie, you've missed the point. Regardless of what your opinion is of the effectiveness of SMS, it is mandated by Transport Canada, so that's the safety system that Porter must use. SMS will NEVER work if the individual SMS reports become public, as you seem to suggest aught to happen. Rockie, mayb...

I'm trying to set up a j/s agreement between American Airlines and Porter. I would need the following Porter information to forward to the American flight department: 1. Name and title of the individual who can sign agreements 2. Their snail mail and email. 3. Their phone number. I looked for an em...

Don't get me wrong here. Porter is a class operation and of course there will be no fudging that's not what I said. IF the numbers say you can do it then there is no problem. I simply think that it's a rather large IF to operate a 110 seat jet on a 5 hour flight off of 5,000' reliably - especially ...

It'd be even funnier to watch Porter defend its monopoly under those circumstances. You can laugh or you can cry all you want about it, Realitychex. The monopoly issue has been court tested, and YTZ is legally considered a common market with YYZ. Is it a competitive advantage for Porter to operate ...

Not if you remember to press the brakes on touchdown...

The other problem should have been the runway level of service for taxi. On 24R (and 24L), it's 1200RVR, and Montreal Tower shouldn't be issuing a landing clearance outside of the FAF if you don't also meet the runway level of service requirements.

Would the new owner of this building and all the business coming with it be intereted in increasing the number of passengers going through and increase his benefits ? Could he start lobbying to have more competition landing in YTZ ? The new owner would only be interested in increasing it's business...

Why is it worth so much? The real question may end up being "how did Porter end up getting the terminal for nothing in 2006?" As a comparison, lets look at another city airport that is close to the downtown core. Last year, London City Stansted Airport sold a 35.5% stake for £1.5 billion last year....

Can anyone here name one other (excluding state owned) airline in this world that owns is own terminal? This has been planned for a lot time. Buy the terminal for nothing when nobody wanted it, invest $49m in a building and prove that it's a valuable resource. The Wall Street Journal has speculated ...

Lots of good people there, hope it's just a coincidence. We'll be overstaffed if Porter runs any more courses this year. The September ground school was scheduled to cover attrition, and attrition has been less than budget for 2014. Interviews will start again in a couple of months for a ground sch...

I don't have the software, but yes. That would be, very roughly, a 2:20 hour flight or so, assuming no wind, in the Q400. 1400 meters is 500 feet more than the CYTZ, so you'd be able to do a max weight takeoff or close to it.

No problem.

Rookie50 wrote:On another point -- why exactly is the ILS 26 restricted?

The glideslope is 4.8 degrees which requires specific steep approach sim training to get the ops spec.

Just as an aside, some operators prohibit their D8-100s or D8-300s from taxiing with an engine shutdown. Bombardier does not approve this procedure (for reasons only they know), which is why some operators choose not to do it. Rumor has it that this may soon change for all variants, including the Q...

Jack Klumpus wrote:Side question, if the runway is to be grooved, would the work to be done affect the daily ops?

Concrete gets layed in sections at night. Then grooving happens, also at night, in sections.

justwork wrote:The C series may be approved for a steep approach but I'd be willing to bet it'll be flying RNP approaches into the island.

I'd bet you're correct, when all is said and done.

So you're flying a C Series into or out of Toronto Island Airport and a TS goes through and now the runway is wet. Apparently the C Series is capable of being fully loaded with pax and fuel for the leg to LAX or YVR, be able to meet balanced field requirements. I call BS. Try rejecting in a fully l...

As it stands now, the decision is scheduled to be made by mid December. After all, it's not like a new incoming mayor could reverse the decision of the previous administration leading to a lawsuit and a huge payoff for Bob Deluce. Nothing like that could ever happen to an infrastructure project at ...

I tend to wonder about that length of runway and contaminated runways dealing with a jet, but defiantly got a chuckle seeing 5000' and STOL in the same sentence. :D Sorry to hijack the topic. Cheers STOL is a marketing invented by de Havilland in the 60s. The only reason the Q400 or CS100 isn't con...

Yeah, I think long term, Porter will do just fine...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/tra ... e15161770/

If they go ahead with these expansion plans, it seems to me they either A) start a price war with WJ/AC which they'd inevitably lose, or B) get bought out by one of said airlines. If A happens, don't forget that Porter has successfully competed in the "golden triangle" for the last 7 years. Porter ...

But if there is an economic case to be made for the expansion, I haven't seen it yet. Cost estimates, realistic assumptions of increased traffic and passengers, and revenue required for full recovery of costs. Also, who bears the cost if revenue estimates do not materialize. Here's the initial repo...

Porter seems to be asking for a significant public investment to extend the YTZ runway; an investment that would benefit mainly Porter and Bombardier. Are they?? The proposed runway extension is not being funded with taxpayer money. According to the Port Authority, who is responsible for infrastruc...