Sunwing/Canjet Fleet & Foreign Pilots - Winter 2014-2015

[Sunwing738]

This thread ran last year and was informative so I figured I would start it since it hasn't been started already. As many of you know the winter season is upon us in Canada and with it brings many leased aircraft and foreign pilots, this thread will be to keep track of both Canjet and Sunwing during the Winter months.

Sunwing Fleet:
Over the Summer, Sunwing had 12 aircraft registered in Canada.
Of those 11, 4 aircraft were in Europe this summer flying for Thomson & Travel Service on Wet-Lease: FEAK, FLSW, FTJH, & FYLC.
1 aircraft, FTAH, was on dry-lease to Travel Service and operated as OK-TVJ.
As of Oct 20th, All aircraft are back operating in Canada.

Inside sources say 37 aircraft will make up the fleet in the peak of the winter months.

So far, Sunwing applied to the CTA for four Wet-Lease, all from Travel Service. The CTA already approved three of these and delayed approval of the fourth on a technicality, but approval should be forthcoming.

Current Sunwing Fleet Totals 37 Aircraft, 12 Full Time, 20 Dry-Lease & 5 Wet-Lease (All info current as of December 23rd, 2014)

Oct 11 - Travel Service OK-TVH Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-GVVH
Oct 12 - Travel Service OK-TVJ Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-FTAH
Oct 17 - Thomson Airways G-FDZG Ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-FRZG
Oct 24 - Travel Serivce OK-TVG Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-GTVG
Oct 26 - Travel Service OK-TVP Ferried Bucharest-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-GKVP
Oct 31 - Travel Serivce OK-TVE Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-GRKB
Nov 3 - Travel Service OK-TVK Ferried Ostrava-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-FGVK
Nov 3 - Thomson Airways G-FDZE Ferried London(LTN)-Toronto and re-registerd C-GDZE
Nov 7 - Travel Service OK-TVM Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Montreal (Wet Lease Aircraft)
Nov 8 - Travel Service OK-TVS Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Toronto-Montreal. (Wet Lease Aircraft)
Nov 11 - Jetairfly OO-JAA Ferried Brussels-Toronto and re-registered C-FUAA
Nov 14 - Thomson Airways G-FDZD Ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-FTZD
Nov 17 - Jetairfly OO-JAU Ferried Brussels-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-FJAU
Nov 21 - Travel Service OK-TVF Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Toronto (Wet Lease Aircraft)
Nov 24 - Thomson Airways G-FEZF Ferried Doncaster-Toronto and re-registered C-FEZF
Nov 25 Thomson Airways G-TAWJ ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-GVOJ
Dec 1 - Jetairfly OO-JAQ Ferried Brussels-Toronto and re-registered C-FOAQ
Dec 2 - Thomson Airways G-FDZJ Ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-FRZJ
Dec 3 - Travel Service OK-TVR Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Montreal. (Wet-Lease Aircraft)
Dec 5 - Thomson Airways G-FDZA Ferried Newcastle-Toronto and re-registered C-FPZA
Dec 9 - Thomson Airways G-TAWK Ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-FQWK
Dec 10 - Jetairfly OO-JBG Ferriend Brussels-Reykjavik-Toronto and re-registered C-FYBG
Dec 11 - Travel Service OK-TVT Ferried Prague-Reykjavik-Montreal. (Wet-Lease Aircraft)
Dec 12 - Thomson Airways G-TAWI Ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-GEWI
Dec 15 - Thomson Airways G-FDZR Ferried London-Gatwick-Toronto and re-registered C-FLZR
Dec 18 - C-FJVE a permanent addition to the Sunwing fleet, this is an ex Miami Air International aircraft.

Sunwing New Routes
This Winter Sunwing plans on the following new services:

Bagotville - Playa Blanca (Via YQB) - Friday Only - Begins Feb 6th 2015
Buffalo - Cancun - Saturday Only - Begins Jan 17th 2015
Buffalo - Punta Cana - Saturday Only - Begins Feb 14th 2015
Calgary - Freeport - Saturday Only - Begins Nov 1st 2014
Calgary - Punta Cana (Tech Stop) - Monday Only - Begins Dec 22nd 2014
Calgary - Manzanillo, MX - Saturday Only - Begins Dec 20th 2014
Charlottetown - Holguin - Tuesday Only - Begins Feb 17th 2015
Deer Lake - Orlando (Via Gander) - Thursday Only - Begins Mar 19th 2015
Edmonton - Liberia (Tech Stop) - Sunday Only - Begins Dec 21st 2014
Edmonton - Manzanillo, MX - Tuesday Only - Begins Dec 23rd 2014
Edmonton - Ixtapa (Via YYC) - Thursday Only - Begins Dec 18th 2014
Hamilton - Punta Cana - Friday Only - Begins Dec 19th 2014
London - Santa Clara - Thursday Only - Begins Dec 18th 2014
Montreal - St. Lucia - Sunday Only - Begins Nov 9th 2014
Montreal - Playa Blanca - Friday Only - Begins Nov 14th 2014
Montreal - Cayo Largo - Saturday Only - Begins Dec 13th 2014
Ottawa - St. Maarten - Monday Only - Begins Dec 15th 2014
Ottawa - Fort Lauderdale - Saturday Only - Begins Dec 20th 2014
Toronto - La Cieba - Monday Only - Begins Nov 9th 2014
Toronto - Manzanillo, MX - Saturday Only - Begins Nov 15th 2014
Toronto - St. Lucia - Saturday Only - Begins Oct 25th 2014
Toronto - Cozumel - Sunday Only - Begins Dec 21st 2014
Toronto - Cartagena - Wednesday Only - Begins Jan 7th 2015
Val d'Or - Santa Clara (Via YUL) - Tuesday Only - Begins Dec 16th 2014
Val d'Or - Cancun (Via YUL) - Monday Only - Begins Jan 5th 2015
Vancouver - Freeport - Friday Only - Begins Nov 1st 2014
Vancouver - Punta Cana (Tech Stop) - Monday Only - Begins Dec 22nd 2014
Vancouver - Manzanillo, MX (Via YYC) - Saturday Only - Begins Dec 20th 2014
Winnipeg - Orlando - Sunday Only - Begins Dec 21st 2014
Winnipeg - Ixtapa - Thursday Only - Begins Dec 11th 2014

Canjet Fleet
Over the summer Canjet had 5 aircraft registered in Canada.
Of those 5, 4 were leased. 1 aircraft to Air Transat, 2 aircraft to LOT and 1 aircraft to Meridiana.
FTCZ is operating for Air Transat.
Currently all aircraft are in Canada with the exception of FXGG which is on dry-lease to Meridiana.

Currently the Canjet Fleet Consists of 6 Aircraft. 4 Full-Time and 2 Dry-Leases

Oct 31 - C-FYQN has returned to Canjet after lease to LOT Polish Airlines Via Katowice-Reykjavik-Halifax-Toronto
Nov 1 - C-FYQO has returned to Canjet after lease to LOT Polish Airlines Via Katowice-Reykjavik-Toronto
Dec 12 - TuiFly D-ATUL Ferried Hannover-Toronto and re-registered C-GTUL
Dec 15 - TuiFly D-ATUK Ferried Hannover-Goose Bay-Toronto and re-registered C-GDGZ


Canjet Destinations
Canjet vacations plans to start operations December 18th with Toronto as its only gateway to the following destinations:

Cayo Coco
Santa Clara
Holguin
Varadero
Puerto Plata
Punta Cana
Cancun
Cozumel
Puerto Vallarta

Hope this helps everyone, I will post as more info comes available.

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Good and informative post.

So far, Sunwing applied to the CTA for four Wet-Lease, all from Travel Service. The CTA already approved three of these and delayed approval of the fourth on a technicality, but approval should be forthcoming.

[Sunwing738]

Good and informative post.

Thanks, Info updated in the original post. Thanks for the heads-up!

[Sunwing738]

Update as of Oct 18

Oct 17th:
C-FEAK has rejoined the WG fleet after being ferried Belfast-Toronto.
Thomson Airway's G-FDZG has ferried Manchester-Toronto and re-registered C-FRZG

[Rogerdodger2]

Thanks fleet police!



What a waste of time. Do you think you're exposing or uncovering some big secret?

[pilotbzh]

It's nice to see someone is keeping an eye out for the Canadian pilots interest....

[Gilles Hudicourt]

The four Travel Service Wet-Leases are due to be provided from Nov 13th 2014 to April 26th 2015. The four are due to arrive at different dates between Nov 13 and Dec 11th.

https://www.otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/ruling/340-a-2014

[rudder]

Gilles,

4 SW wet leases went to Europe for summer 2014 and 4 TVS wet leases are coming to Canada for winter 2014/2015. For those that are fans of 'balance' I would say that the goal has been met.

As for the 120 TFWP/FLVC pilots - that remains to play out. However, my prediction is contraction and eventually elimination. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

[JoeyBarton]

Is the hiring related to the last ad Sunwing has posted on here completed? Anybody got a call?

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Gilles,

4 SW wet leases went to Europe for summer 2014 and 4 TVS wet leases are coming to Canada for winter 2014/2015. For those that are fans of 'balance' I would say that the goal has been met.

I agree and I've said so.

As for the 120 TFWP/FLVC pilots - that remains to play out. However, my prediction is contraction and eventually elimination. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

My hope is that Transport Canada will agree with us that the CARs do not allow FLVCs to be issued to allow foreign licensed pilots to fly Commercially in Canada for several consecutive years, thus by-passing the Canadian licencing requirements.

If one wants to fly in Canada for an Operator flying under Sub-Part 705 for a purpose not allowed by 421.07(2), 705.106(3) and 725.106(6), to this pilot needs to have a Canadian licence as required by 705.106(1)(a) and 725.106(6). Period.

I think that those who think fly under 705 while not conforming with the above Regulations do so at their own risk, regardless of the "Licence" Transport Canada provides them with.

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Is the hiring related to the last ad Sunwing has posted on here completed? Anybody got a call?

Sunwing had made a request to EDSC to import 120 TFW. In the past, ESDC had as a requirement that in order to qualify to import TFW, one had to post an ad for 2 weeks in Canada for Canadian workers. Later this requirement was increased 4 weeks. The latest ESDC requirement however is that the ad must run until the arrival of the TFW, which have not yet arrived, which is why the ad is still running.

[Sunwing738]

Thanks fleet police!
What a waste of time. Do you think you're exposing or uncovering some big secret?

No, I merely do it as a hobby and passion for the industry & SWG/CJA in particular. I prefer to focus on the fleets more than the foreign pilots because I enjoy the many different hybrid schemes each winter. It adds some colour to the airport in the dull winter months and are great for spotting.

This thread was created for those who, like me, enjoy following the fleet growth in the winter months, and for those who enjoy following the foreign pilots issue with Mr. Hudicourt leading that charge.

Back to the thread:

FYLC was ferried Warsaw-Reykjavik-Toronto today and rejoined the fleet.

Here is C-GVVH with its new coat of paint, or should I say new sticker?

(Photo by: weekend planes spotter - Toronto YYZ)
Larger image here: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3939/149 ... f9d3_o.jpg

[Mart]

So does anyone got a call or interview with Sunwing lately?

I've seen there ads everywhere, Workopolis, Canadian Government Jobbank and Quebec Government Jobbank. Are those fake ads to apply for the TFP?

[Rogerdodger2]

Depends on who you choose to believe. Some, from Gilles camp, will say they are fake. Some, like myself, will say there is more hiring starting in the new year. Believe who you will... Think for yourself.

Fake ads??? Really??

[B-rad]

by "fake" I read it as filling a requirement with no integrity or intention of hiring.

[Mart]

by "fake" I read it as filling a requirement with no integrity or intention of hiring.

Exactly! and with the Type Rated requirement posted on the ad they can say they are unable to find type rated pilot and request TFP.

But if people are getting call and interviews we can't say they are fake. So that's why I'm asking if anyone got a call from them in the last 2 months? Some ads mention 60 pilots other 42 so they must be hiring. But who?

[whiteguy]

by "fake" I read it as filling a requirement with no integrity or intention of hiring.

Exactly! and with the Type Rated requirement posted on the ad they can say they are unable to find type rated pilot and request TFP.

But if people are getting call and interviews we can't say they are fake. So that's why I'm asking if anyone got a call from them in the last 2 months? Some ads mention 60 pilots other 42 so they must be hiring. But who?

I know one person that was offered a position. Not type rated, had 703 pic and 705 time. Couldn't take it for personal reasons.

[JoeyBarton]

When were these interviews conducted WhiteGuy?

[tincanflyer]

Not this AGAIN.............yawn,

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Yawn, right! He is attempting to divert the direction of this thread.

My opinion is that most of the current ads are just smokescreens for TFW hiring. They applied for 120 TFW and must maintain the ads until all the positions meant for TFW have been filled, which wont occur until mid december.

Technically, if you have a 737 type rating now, you must be given priority over the TFW though. So a few Canadians with valid 737 PPCs may be getting calls because that is what the law says they should do.

The one ad that may be different is the 42 pilot ad that begins in Jan 2015. Chances are that Sunwing will no longer be able to import any TFW pilots for the 2015/2016 winter season, which may force them to begin hiring and training Canadians early. This is just a guess on my part.

Air Transat, which intends to operate 12 B737s this coming winter began to hire and train 737 pilots last December in order to have theses pilots ready in time. Sunwing will have to do the same if they are denied the TFW pilots for next year, as I suspect they will be.

They will be down to only the 4 or 5 foreign wet leases that the CTA will allow.

[Sunwing738]

Travel Service OK-TVG ferried into Toronto on Oct 24th via KEF & PRG. Re-registered C-GTVG. This now brings the fleet to 15 aircraft.

C-FTAH with it's new colours for the winter season promoting Nexus Tours, which is part of the Sunwing Travel Group.


Photo credits to TMK Photography.
Larger Image Here: https://canadianaviationnews.files.word ... 14-025.jpg

[CMD-A]

Yawn, right! He is attempting to divert the direction of this thread.

My opinion is that most of the current ads are just smokescreens for TFW hiring. They applied for 120 TFW and must maintain the ads until all the positions meant for TFW have been filled, which wont occur until mid december.

Technically, if you have a 737 type rating now, you must be given priority over the TFW though. So a few Canadians with valid 737 PPCs may be getting calls because that is what the law says they should do.

The one ad that may be different is the 42 pilot ad that begins in Jan 2015. Chances are that Sunwing will no longer be able to import any TFW pilots for the 2015/2016 winter season, which may force them to begin hiring and training Canadians early. This is just a guess on my part.

Air Transat, which intends to operate 12 B737s this coming winter began to hire and train 737 pilots last December in order to have theses pilots ready in time. Sunwing will have to do the same if they are denied the TFW pilots for next year, as I suspect they will be.

They will be down to only the 4 or 5 foreign wet leases that the CTA will allow.

Actually, you are the ONE trying to divert this thread.
This thread is about SWG fleet update, so you can go ahead and update the other number of threads you have started on tfw and bad guys at SWG.

[tincanflyer]

....yawn!

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Yawn at this Canadian pilots

http://ekonomika.idnes.cz/cesti-piloti- ... clanek-box

It says that Czech Travel Service is expanding its succesful winter contracts to Canada with a record 130 pilots going over this year with 13 aircraft going to Canada, 11 to Sunwing and 2 to Air Transat (Air Transat is dry leasing 2 737 from them, no foreign pilots).

[tincanflyer]

what a waste of time....let the successfully company keep rolling which in turn allows them to hire Canadian pilots the rest of the year.