Recent content by Tim MacDonald

I tried out the new mercatto for brunch today. The space is beautiful with a nice ambiance but clearly there are some growing pains. I'll try it again in a few months once they have worked through some of the startup problems.

Moments ago.

47 trips a week YHU-Toronto, plus whatever they are flying YUL-YTZ and YYZ. That's ambitious.

That's insane. Twice daily YHM-YHU. Here is the rest of the planned routes with start dates from the press release: New routes from MET* Start date Frequency Quebec City (YQB) June 15 7x weekly St. John’s (YYT) ** June 15 7x weekly Toronto City (YTZ) June 15 27x weekly Toronto...

But that's the thing. Flair has an extra 50 seats they can sell and likely do sell over Porter on every single flight. Porter's not even selling 132 seats on most flights. No matter how you slice it, the cost per seat is much higher than their competitors. Flair has less than half the tails that...

At this point under these circumstances no routes will likely work. In better times probably select north-south winter routes on weekends may work. Hamilton is not even working now based on the numbers that have been released. They're not even filling 132 seats at rock bottom prices. Near...

Porter doesn't have the cash for something like this. YHU-YHM for all intents and purpose would be a non revenue flight. If they try and launch that they are in worse shape than I thought. Even out of Yyz, Yhu flights didn't work. I worked a bunch of them back in the1990 to 1991 period and...

No but it i No but it's completely held hostage by the so called archeological dig. At some point time limits on this stuff should be imposed. It's a complete joke.

Yeah, me too. I haven't flown since January 10th as it has been too rainy, snowy, cold or windy on the days that I was available.

An unfortunate incident: https://www.cp24.com/local/peel/2026/03/11/child-dies-after-fall-from-balcony-in-mississauga-police/

Back in Oz for one more day. Feb 28th 2026 06:46hrs.

TMD has been finished for a while. It's going to be the first flight priority once I get back and have some flyable weather.

I guess I will do an all nighter if I want to see the game from New Zealand. I think it starts at like 2am Monday!

Urban Auckland, NZ at dusk about 90 minutes ago.

There's absolutely no reason for Transat to run anything across the pond this summer from YHM unless they've reached full capacity at YYZ or it is a block seat deal for another entity. Normally stuff like this is planned almost a year in advance so I wouldn't anticipate a Summer 26 program...