5T has signed a letter of intent with Air Transat to operate southern holiday flights this winter season.

I really hope this is an effect of AT moving away from wet leasing foreign carriers to take care of extra capacity and Hope Sunwing is able to follow suit by wet leasing Canadian airlines too.

Glad to hear you guys got that flying, it's nice to hear some good news for once.

So they dump one Canadian carrier for another. How is that good?

boeingboy wrote:So they dump one Canadian carrier for another. How is that good?

You would prefer a foreign carrier wet lease ?
Sorry, I'm a bit condescending. I mean it's better than a foreign carrier wet lease.

the carrier that they had signed with started to compete with them

older equipment cheaper lease

I wonder if 5T contractors will get to use passes on these flights. Fingers crossed!

You would prefer a foreign carrier wet lease ?
Sorry, I'm a bit condescending. I mean it's better than a foreign carrier wet lease.

No - of course not.

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear myself - I meant dumping one Canadian carrier and hiring another Canadian carrier really does nothing. I guess it's good for the new guys - but it just displaces the old guys....

boeingboy wrote:So they dump one Canadian carrier for another. How is that good?

They did?

Good on them for contracting Canadian North. This is good news.

Does that mean Enerjet will no longer do Transat flying? I heard they returned one of their 737's and lost their oil sands contract... True?

FICU wrote:

boeingboy wrote:So they dump one Canadian carrier for another. How is that good?

They did?

Think he means CanJet.

loopa wrote:Does that mean Enerjet will no longer do Transat flying? I heard they returned one of their 737's and lost their oil sands contract... True?

I saw them loading up about 20 boxes of what appeared to be tech records into the belly of it the other day, so I was wondering that myself.

Yea... I have heard from several sources that they didn't renew the lease on one of their 737 ng's... So I'm wondering if they lost the Transat flying on top of the oil contract. That would kind of close the doors no? Perhaps there's something else on the go...

loopa wrote:Yea... I have heard from several sources that they didn't renew the lease on one of their 737 ng's... So I'm wondering if they lost the Transat flying on top of the oil contract. That would kind of close the doors no? Perhaps there's something else on the go...

The company and Air Transat contract are all intact.

Good to hear!

The company and Air Transat contract are all intact.

That's good if true........but why are the Enerjet flights from YVR non-existant after Oct 25th?

boeingboy wrote:

The company and Air Transat contract are all intact.

That's good if true........but why are the Enerjet flights from YVR non-existant after Oct 25th?

Why wouldn't it be true, you have factual information otherwise?
Do you have the entire TS YVR winter schedule? That would be the most telling of your claim.

boeingboy wrote:

The company and Air Transat contract are all intact.

That's good if true........but why are the Enerjet flights from YVR non-existant after Oct 25th?

http://reservation.airtransat.ca/en/Fli ... ratorBox=0

Really? I just found this on transat's website and it says operated by ENJ.

Really?

All I can find is it saying operated by Air Transat....with some going through Victoria - even the flight numbers are different than the ones being used by Enerjet now. The sched I've seen shows no Enerjet flights after the end of Oct - so I'm only going by what Ive seen so far.

boeingboy wrote:Really?

All I can find is it saying operated by Air Transat....with some going through Victoria - even the flight numbers are different than the ones being used by Enerjet now. The sched I've seen shows no Enerjet flights after the end of Oct - so I'm only going by what Ive seen so far.

Try going to transats website book YYC-YVR on oct 30th which is their Friday run, it says operated by Enerjet.

Ahhh - ok.

I was looking for the mexico flights which are not showing anymore.

Ahhh ok.

What nich would they fill?