Warren

I always thought Preclearance was put in to help US carriers. They could take pax from YYZ - ORD (or ATL etc) and the aircraft and some pax would continue to Salt Lake or some other western destination that Canadian carriers couldn’t get approval for. The worst example was Eastern used to fly YYZ - BUF and on to MCO, TPA, FLL, MIA while Air Canada and others couldn’t get any more landing rights. That’s all changed now so they’ve made the fees so high for preclearance that it encourages some price conscious pax to drive to BUF etc. Its not for the convenience of Canadians.

Harper Lost

From the Bombardier statement " Bombardier Commercial Aircraft confirmed today that a C Series aircraft with a representative payload successfully flew non-stop from London City Airport (LCY) to John F. Kennedy" No idea what a "representative payload" is, but they are saying it is designed to carry 40 pax out of there direct to North America.

This aircraft was built in 1999 and has been operated by: Azzurra Air Hamburg International AIRES Colombia AIRES Colombia LAN Colombia Europe Airpost Air Transat Europe Airpost Air Transat ASL Airlines France Air Transat

Its only March 1, not April 1

In the case under discussion, the Slovenian Captain was about to fly a Canadian registered aircraft, full of Canadians out of a Canadian airport based on his Slovenian (or where ever license) . He was operating on the FLVC discussed in the article.

Even a reactionary place like Lee County FL (Fort Myers) has a large energy from waste plant. They even collect aluminum cans out of the ash and make a few million dollars recycling them. They get enough electricity to power the plant, offices and enough left over for a small town. The next county north has a land fill site but because it is Florida, you can't really go down too far, so its just a large, ugly, smelly pile. Just like Ontario used to do until they ran out of sites that would take it. How many tons of hydro carbons do those trucks hauling Toronto and Mississauga garbage emit?

That aircraft is ex Air Canada C-FTNJ !

Looking at pictures of the 737 that went into the EMAS at LGA made me wonder if "they" ever put that system at the end of 24 in YYZ?

For those with interests in hurricane territory, a good site is https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/

LHR has a great light system that seems to work. But it would cost money that should really go to waterfalls and art collections. What am I thinking, YYZ get into the 1990's safety systems.

",,,a modest 200 meter increase on either end " What is that going to cost and who pays for it? I'm sure neither Porter nor Bombardier will be footing the bill, but they appear to be the only ones who benefit.

Here is one from CP Rail. Never knew they did this. http://www.cpr.ca/holiday-train/united-states

Late '70's I did a DC-8 freighter that left YYZ at 2255 (for legalities) and went YMX, YQM, YHZ, YYT. Never figured out why YQM always brought us over the city in the middle of the night. I noticed recently that one of the cargo carriers does pretty much the same route these days.

A time Lapse video of the assembly of an Air Canada 787-8 https://youtu.be/zY81OVIIpUM