Hamilton International Airport

[BCTed]

Looks like Porter is increasing service to Winnipeg to 6x weekly for the summer.

 

[ILikeHamilton]

Posted February 17

I hope this is a sign on how well the summer sales out of YHM are going.

I was looking for a flight to St. John's NL (YYT) for this summer out of YHM and I noticed that porter is now flying 7 times a week to YYT up from 5. So, I checked the other destinations and found that Winnipeg (YWG) is now 6 days up from 4. Also, they are showing Dear Lake (YDF) as a connecting flight out of YHM through Halifax (YHZ). This is new.

So, I guess that JakeLRS is going to have to make an updated schedule!

 

[KingJames]

Was excited to use the jetway on nearly full flight back from FLL yesterday. Too funny though that you get to the terminal, go left to international arrivals, and are directed ..... Outside.... To the white tunnel ....but nice to see the standard immigration machines (as well as Nexus line). Hopefully more jetways get added in to fill outside gap between the white tunnel and jetway network.

Pic of updated international arrival luggage pickup.

 

[JakeLRS]

Hopefully more jetways get added in to fill outside gap between the white tunnel and jetway network.

the only problem is that I think this would close the access for the baggage trucks to access the baggage claim.

I flew in on Thursday and it was nice to use the jet bridge. I did notice the jetway hallway didn’t have any heat on so it was shocked when I got a breeze of cool air when I got off the jet bridge portion.

Hopefully we get a few more bridges if demand keeps climbing.

Once again, the YEG-YHM flight was maybe 50% full on a Friday…

 

[KingJames]

Would be interesting to see what load factors are across the board at YHM for Porter in comparison to their operations at other airports. Would also love to get some insight on the timing and initial routes of the new Montreal Metro Airport (including any pairings with Euro bound Air Transat flights).

Any Intel on the build-out config of all the jet bridges (I recall in previous posts there were 9 in total).

 

[JakeLRS]

Would be interesting to see what load factors are across the board at YHM for Porter in comparison to their operations at other airports. Would also love to get some insight on the timing and initial routes of the new Montreal Metro Airport (including any pairings with Euro bound Air Transat flights).

Any Intel on the build-out config of all the jet bridges (I recall in previous posts there were 9 in total).

Here are the December DoT numbers for Porter.

Hamilton
FLL: 2497/3696 = 67.6%
MCO: 1573/2244 = 70.1%
Combined: 4070/5940 = 68.5%

YHM had the lowest load factor when compared to YOW, YUL, YHZ, and YYZ. However, this is the first season for these routes where the others are now in their 2nd season.

In terms of the extra jet bridges, the rumour in this thread was to add 2 more, but the loads aren’t warranting them at this point.

 

[KingJames]

Here are the December DoT numbers for Porter.

Hamilton
FLL: 2497/3696 = 67.6%
MCO: 1573/2244 = 70.1%
Combined: 4070/5940 = 68.5%

YHM had the lowest load factor when compared to YOW, YUL, YHZ, and YYZ. However, this is the first season for these routes where the others are now in their 2nd season.

In terms of the extra jet bridges, the rumour in this thread was to add 2 more, but the loads aren’t warranting them at this point.

Many thanks, hopefully with the commitment they made with the Hamilton Stadium, the element of local awareness will be elevated, which should translate to higher load factors.

Also , I do think the draws for TD Coliseum will help encourage traffic through YHM. I was surprised to have people from Thunder Bay sitting beside me for the Bocelli concert who just flew down for the show..

 

[BCTed]

Here are the December DoT numbers for Porter.

Hamilton
FLL: 2497/3696 = 67.6%
MCO: 1573/2244 = 70.1%
Combined: 4070/5940 = 68.5%

YHM had the lowest load factor when compared to YOW, YUL, YHZ, and YYZ. However, this is the first season for these routes where the others are now in their 2nd season.

In terms of the extra jet bridges, the rumour in this thread was to add 2 more, but the loads aren’t warranting them at this point.

Where do you look up the DoT data? Did the load factors for the other airports go up from last year?

 

[BCTed]

The YHU Montreal Met terminal unveiling is on Tuesday. Let's see if the routes will include Hamilton...

 

[KingJames]

Let's hope for a surprise YHM connect

 

[Tim MacDonald]

Let's hope for a surprise YHM connect

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 frequently there were single digit loads and sometimes no pax at all. And that was on 42 seater. Every flight felt like a ferry flight!

 

[BCTed]

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 frequently there were single digit loads and sometimes no pax at all. And that was on 42 seater. Every flight felt like a ferry flight!

So which YHU routes will work?

 

[Tim MacDonald]

So which YHU routes will work?

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 doubling of jet fuel prices are only accelerating Porter's operating costs.

 

[KingJames]

That doesn't sound overly optimistic for either YHU/MET or YHM

 

[rbt]

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 doubling of jet fuel prices are only accelerating Porter's operating costs.

Porters YHM prices don't seem rock bottom; economies of scale are lower but so are their fees. For the handful of April flights I checked, Flair Airlines from Pearson is within $50 for the same dates (sometimes less, sometimes more). Both charge for carry-on baggage.