Toronto Pearson International Airport

[nfitz]

Hmm. It's certainly shown on the GTAA's terminal map but the escalators seem to go nowhere.

Yes, that's them. I saw that, but I was hoping there'd be something on the underlying layer - but there's only the tunnel to the T3 satellite terminal.

 

[SubHuman]

Saying 40 flights a day is "astounding" might be exaggerating a little.

 

[11th]

Hmm. It's certainly shown on the GTAA's terminal map but the escalators seem to go nowhere. As there's no matching escalators on the other levels of the terminal. That it leads to a hallway under the terminal makes me think that it's for access to the post security area.

screen cap of the escalator:

View attachment 606638

Those escalators (shown next to the elevators) take you to an underground passage, which leads you to the parking garage. A nice way to avoid the often chaotic surface crossings.

 

[rdaner]

Someone brought up an interesting point on SSP about HSR and Pearson in that it would reduce the number of short haul flights thus freeing up slots for longer flights. Seen this way the cost is a bit more reasonable!

 

[BermudaTO37]

Looks like Cathay is almost doing 3 daily starting next March.

Link:

Cathay Pacific NS25 Canada Service Expansion — AeroRoutes

Published at 2315GMT 19NOV24 Cathay Pacific in Northern summer 2025 season is expanding service to Canada, with additional flights to Toronto and Vancouver schedules. By peak season, the oneWorld member schedules up to 18 weekly flights to Toronto , 17 weekly to Vancouver . Schedule below focus

www.aeroroutes.com

Hong Kong – Toronto eff 31MAR25 Increase from 14 to 18 weekly. New service departs Hong Kong in overnight hours, Toronto in mid-morning hours
CX820 HKG0240 – 0545YYZ 359 x257
CX828 HKG1045 – 1355YYZ 359 D
CX826 HKG1755 – 2105YYZ 359 D

CX829 YYZ0140 – 0500+1HKG 359 D
CX821 YYZ1035 – 1405+1HKG 359 x257
CX825 YYZ1535 – 1900+1HKG 359 D

 

[BermudaTO37]

Surprised no one is talking about this which was just signed a few weeks back​

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Expanded air travel between Canada and Australia​

From: Transport Canada

News release​

October 29, 2024 Ottawa, Ontario Transport Canada
Expanding our international air transport travel relationships with other countries provides Canadians with greater choice and more convenience. Canadians want and deserve options for their international travel needs.
Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Transport, announced that Canada has recently expanded its air transport agreement with Australia.
The expanded agreement includes an unlimited number of direct passenger and cargo flights and enhances operational flexibility for each country’s airlines. It also includes access to any point in the other country’s territory. This is a significant expansion of the agreement and is expected to meet the needs of this important bilateral market for the long term.
This expanded agreement was reached at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Air Services Negotiation Event, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over the course of the event, the Canadian delegation of officials from Global Affairs Canada, Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency held several productive meetings with their international counterparts to conclude this agreement and facilitate the negotiation of future agreements.

Link:

Expanded air travel between Canada and Australia

Expanding our international air transport travel relationships with other countries provides Canadians with greater choice and more convenience. Canadians want and deserve options for their international travel needs.

www.canada.ca

 

[urbancog]

These guys will be thrilled:

CANZUK International - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[IRT_BMT_IND]

Surprised no one is talking about this which was just signed a few weeks back​

​

Expanded air travel between Canada and Australia​

From: Transport Canada

News release​

October 29, 2024 Ottawa, Ontario Transport Canada
Expanding our international air transport travel relationships with other countries provides Canadians with greater choice and more convenience. Canadians want and deserve options for their international travel needs.
Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Transport, announced that Canada has recently expanded its air transport agreement with Australia.
The expanded agreement includes an unlimited number of direct passenger and cargo flights and enhances operational flexibility for each country’s airlines. It also includes access to any point in the other country’s territory. This is a significant expansion of the agreement and is expected to meet the needs of this important bilateral market for the long term.
This expanded agreement was reached at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Air Services Negotiation Event, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over the course of the event, the Canadian delegation of officials from Global Affairs Canada, Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency held several productive meetings with their international counterparts to conclude this agreement and facilitate the negotiation of future agreements.

Link:

Expanded air travel between Canada and Australia

Expanding our international air transport travel relationships with other countries provides Canadians with greater choice and more convenience. Canadians want and deserve options for their international travel needs.

www.canada.ca

I'm not sure there will be much immediate impact from this deal, as neither Qantas or Air Canada really have enough spare widebodies to increase service much (even from Vancouver Australia is really far from Canada so any service will eat a lot of frames). Maybe we'll see one of the two add more frequencies to Vancouver from non SYD airports (MEL especially).

 

[guavadelic]

These guys will be thrilled:

CANZUK International - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Always wondered why this wasn't already a thing with these countries sharing a head of state and being commonwealth countries.

The UK essentially treats travelers from Canada and U.S. the same. Makes you wonder as a Canadian what the point of being part of the commonwealth is nowadays.

 

[Richard White]

I'm not sure there will be much immediate impact from this deal, as neither Qantas or Air Canada really have enough spare widebodies to increase service much (even from Vancouver Australia is really far from Canada so any service will eat a lot of frames). Maybe we'll see one of the two add more frequencies to Vancouver from non SYD airports (MEL especially).

I looked at visiting Australia next year but the cost was almost $5000 return in economy.

Factor in everything else and it is a pricey vacation from Toronto.

 

[lenaitch]

I looked at visiting Australia next year but the cost was almost $5000 return in economy.

Factor in everything else and it is a pricey vacation from Toronto.

Ya, nothing like spending 22 hours in steerage.

 

[Richard White]

Ya, nothing like spending 22 hours in steerage.

Agreed. For 5000 I can fly first class return with KLM to Europe

 

[drum118]

I looked at visiting Australia next year but the cost was almost $5000 return in economy.

Factor in everything else and it is a pricey vacation from Toronto.

What time of year where you looking at doing this trip as it was only costing me under $5000 each for 5 air flight with layovers in various cities?? There is 2 type of economy class with the upgrade being $3500 more. I was also doing New Zealand as well by the way of Dallas and coming back by Vancouver

I looked at doing the trip in early 2025, but has been pushed to 2026 now and may go business class that will be an extra $5000 per person, 22 plus hours is a long time sitting in a seat each way.. The longest flight has been to Roma so far with Glasgow been the 2nd one.

 

[Richard White]

What time of year where you looking at doing this trip as it was only costing me under $5000 each for 5 air flight with layovers in various cities?? There is 2 type of economy class with the upgrade being $3500 more. I was also doing New Zealand as well by the way of Dallas and coming back by Vancouver

I looked at doing the trip in early 2025, but has been pushed to 2026 now and may go business class that will be an extra $5000 per person, 22 plus hours is a long time sitting in a seat each way.. The longest flight has been to Roma so far with Glasgow been the 2nd one.

June. 5000 return.