THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: Canada

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

CANADA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Air Canada (AC)

7,794

568,703

50.5 %

2.3 %

2

WestJet Airlines (WS)

2,604

352,401

31.3 %

(-0.4) %

3

Porter Airlines (PD)

773

57,975

5.1 %

(-3.9) %

4

First Air (7F)

364

21,631

1.9 %

1.2 %

5

Canadian North (5T)

190

13,956

1.2 %

(-11.5) %

6

Air Inuit (3H)

344

13,356

1.2 %

2.7 %

7

Bearskin Airlines (JV)

658

12,502

1.1 %

18.8 %

8

Pacific Coastal Airlines (8P)

517

12,217

1.1 %

7.6 %

9

Calm Air International (MO)

339

11,224

1.0 %

(-5.3) %

10

Wasaya Airways (WT)

473

9,233

0.8 %

10.4 %

(Others)

2,088

53,687

4.8 %

(-4.1) %

TOTAL

16,144

1,126,885

-

0.8 %

CANADA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Air Canada (AC)

1,932

204,727

33.8 %

1.5 %

2

Air Transat (TS)

155

45,770

7.6 %

15.8 %

3

WestJet Airlines (WS)

311

44,068

7.3 %

26.8 %

4

United Airlines (UA)

175

26,042

4.3 %

113.4 %

5

ExpressJet Airlines (XE)

421

22,964

3.8 %

New Entrant

6

American Airlines (AA)

125

19,720

3.3 %

0.7 %

7

SkyWest Airlines (OO)

287

16,620

2.7 %

251.8 %

8

Pinnacle Airlines (9E)

271

14,460

2.4 %

8.3 %

9

American Eagle (MQ)

256

14,103

2.3 %

(-10.7) %

10

Porter Airlines (PD)

181

13,575

2.2 %

28.4 %

(Others)

1,371

182,911

30.2 %

(-20.9) %

TOTAL

5,485

604,960

-

3.7 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…