The move of most passenger service to the International airport is not entirely Edmonton Airports fault. The people of Edmonton espcially those living near City Center were instumental in getting this to eventually happen, they have been complaning about noise for ten years. Now I do think it was ri...

My point was United, Delta, American, Continental and no International airlines have schedule service to Edmonton . What about United to Chicago, San Francisco and Denver, Northwest to MSP, Delta to Salt Lake City, US Air (America West Express) to Vegas and Phoenix, and Horizon Air to Seattle. With...

When I use the term "no delay" in the climb for example it is for the pilots benefit. Otherwise I'd be tunneling you out of the terminal at 7000. Sometimes you are doing 4000 ft/pm at 320 kts and all I'm saying is keep it up, because if you dont say it the next sweep that climb rate has dropped to 1...

Actually, the f18's arent only honoring the troops, its a NORAD monitored exercise on intercepting a possible hijacked airliner. They are being tested on how fast they can react, intercept the aircraft, then escort it to an airport.

About the D328 vs BE10 senario there, if I see you coming I'll usually tell the Red Deer Sector, which works the airspace between YYC and YEG to let you come in without restrictions, sometimes they'll call me and ask if they can, which I'll always approve. The problem there is you are both classifie...

We have what are called "in" and "out" gates for the terminal. If your flight planned route takes you out an in gate our procedure is to vector you out of the terminal north of the Teteg in gate, which is the one that you're refering to. That is what Edmonton enroute sector is expecting. Sometimes, ...

Charlie_G,

2005 was my first full year a qualified controller and I made 129,000 while only on my first increment. Now mind you I worked a lot of overtime, but not as much as at least 3 or 4 other people in my specialty, who all grossed more than 200,000. Thats on YEG OFP not YYZ's.