 that mean an end to Westjet Link, for the time being, as well?
For now. The US is about to fall off a cliff.
I suspect they'll be one if, if not the first, nations to break 100,000 reported cases.

With United temporarily suspending all flights to Canada there is going to be very few options out of YVR.
A story says the crosswind runway will be closed for aircraft storage. Tomorrow/Monday.
Saw a post from KLM stating that until at least May 3 only Canada destinations they will serve are Calgary and Toronto. So Vancouver completely cut.
Does anyone know how many routes remain active?
The list ignores all WG, WS, and UA flights not yet removed in April as we know they will not be operating.
Westjet is really focusing all its efforts on Calgary!
They are still listing YVR/YYZ-DEL for April, but highly doubt those will operate. India is on lockdown. All domestic flights have been stopped.
Edit: They just moved both flights in the suspended list until April 30th.
We could probably factor out FRA and MUC if it get worse in Germany.
SYD ends April 11th.
I would have liked to see EWR with AC stick around at least with a 319.
What you see today will probably change tomorrow. With borders shutting around the world and travel crawling to a hault...
Passenger numbers will be irrelevant.
This is what happens when an autocracy covers up an outbreak for 6 weeks.
JL was previously noted here as being suspended.
Showing as operating twice weekly now. Last updated Mar.25.
There were nine Westjet aircraft parked there yesterday.
With the new Chinese government rules as of Mar 29 - this flight can only be 1 per week.
Needless to say things change daily - in these unsettled times.
Starting March 29, Chinese airlines are only allowed to maintain one route to any specific country with no more than one flight per week each, while foreign airlines are only allowed to maintain one route to China with no more than one weekly flight, CAAC said in the statement posted on its website on March 26.
YVR is expecting a 50% drop in pax numbers for 2020. Construction program is on hold.
Passenger numbers are going to be meaningless.
Except that they may show how our world is knit together in terms of necessary and absolutely necessary air travel. Which airports and routes are able or needed during a world-wide shutdown. The cargo numbers will tell an equally interesting tale.
YVR reduces by 50% 60% 70% 80%?
What exactly will that tell us?
Amazing!! Passenger numbers to equate to pre-international terminal construction.
Not much. But, for example, a map showing what airports are being used and by how much (like the circle-covid19 maps) across NAmerica, and the world would give a clear picture of what remains operational as opposed to what is more completely shut down. Compared to normal times, it would unmask underlying strengths within the network. Strengths meaning routes that remain more open than others, airports that are more focused upon based upon necessity or government decisions, routes that remain more essential for a variety of reasons, etc..
I don't expect to see anything like this, but it would show some interesting structural aspects usually hidded withing the whole network and system.
I understand... my point is schedules are changing daily whereby it’s impossible to see any patterns.
Example AC38 is about to fly MEL-YVR today (departure time is now) that’s the only Australia-YVR flight operating today. Why is that? Who knows?
There are 4 Condor 763s heading to PER to rescue stranded cruise ship passengers. That is a very specific reason. Repatriation flights are happening. So passenger numbers overall will be meaningless in 2020.
I understand. Maybe what I am talking about would be an analysis over the duration of this terrible period of time - from the start to the final abatement. It is unlikely that we will ever see the numbers, but Craig Ferguson and all his counterparts are going to be keeping track of all sorts of data.
Not one to post schedule changes at the moment but this is just to show what we know today changes tomorrow...
Air Canada cutting another 1000 weekly flights from its already greatly reduced schedule posted just 4 days ago... I would expect more and from Westjet too soon.
Seems like WS is banking everything on YYC right now.
And flying heaps of empty planes no doubt. I also think it would actually be irresponsible of them to launch flights to Italy in 5 weeks. Who in their right mind would be planning a trip to Europe at the moment let alone Italy.
I would expect a similar draw down of flights from Westjet, this is not sustainable.
AB passenger screening is closed and every thing through the C entrance.
Now the entire A and B concourses are closed. All domestic passengers uses C concourse.
AC removing YVR-NRT for April.
Amongst all the reductions, we must have had record heavy ANZ volume today. At least for tonnage on the runway, with 6x 773 movements..
But I'm thinking not a lot of O&D for here. I heard of Germans being repatriated to FRA, but presumably NZ'ers going the other way from Europe too.
And there is another NZ 77W on its way from CHC as we speak. NZ1952 ETA is 0845 tomorrow morning.
And in fact the the FRA flight today have gate D71 assigned, suggests that it's also loading/unloading passengers at YVR.
All Cargo, Change of crew in YVR most likely.
There are pax on board as well. LH and NZ are both operating repat flights between Germany and NZ. It will require 20 flights in total. LH is doing one stops via BKK.
It's loading/unloading crew only.
The team consists of four pilots and 12 cabin crew operating the Auckland-Vancouver leg. In Vancouver, the airline positioned a full replacement crew to continue to Frankfurt.
WS appears to have cancelled all international/transborder flights basically until further notice, except for May. All flights beyond June 1 are "cancelled".
YVR-LGW is presently unaffected for now.
Edit: I think this could have been a glitch / or system issue as they have restored the removed schedules.
Changes still happening on a daily basis... what we see today won’t be the same next week. Just cannot see WS with their complete European schedule this summer... hardly anybody will want to travel even if this turns around tomorrow (which it won’t)... long term recovery before most people will want to travel again.
I've stopped my weekly update of AC schedule now...
Well, I haven't even been bother scanning them for almost a month now. There's just no point at the moment.
It looks like they blocked middle seats on all US / Sun destination flights for all flights right through the summer so that may have caused the schedules to disappear briefly. They didn't do this for any of the long haul routes, so they would have not been affected.
(*) timetable listing says 3 X, and it does seem to have run three times in the last seven days, but surely they have to reduce to one weekly?
I don't see the LGW service working over the next year. Given tourism is dead for the next 12 months.
More likely is seeing WS fly into Paris or Amsterdam and try to use their European partners to provide onward connections. Perhaps WS can shift into Heathrow through some kind of magic slot reallocation. LGW is a crappy airport to provide onward connections from.
Traffic has plummeted at YVR to four per cent of its normal volume.
Craig Richmond, CEO of the Vancouver Airport Authority, reported to the Richmond COVID-19 Community Task Force on Monday that only 3,000 passengers were travelling through the airport given the current travel restrictions, down from a normal volume of 78,000 per day.
Furthermore, the terminal has been largely consolidated into just Terminal C and its adjacent gates...
I don’t think the 1 flight per week to each country per Chinese airline is happening. MU is still flying to YVR at least 5x per week. CA is operating more than 1 flight per week and MF is still operating 3 x per week as well.
Same with Australia CA, CZ and MU are flying to both MEL and SYD multiple times per week.
Xiamen, Sichuan, Air China, Hainan, China Southern and China Eastern have all operated to YVR this week and some more than once weekly. This one flight per week rumour doesn’t seem to be true.
CX, JL, BR, NH, NZ, AM and KE cargo have also been operating regular flights to YVR.
Only 1 flight/week is bookable through airline website. Not sure what the others are... cargo-only? charter? repatriation?
Most of these flights to China had been marked as sold out till at least mid-May or early June, and the ones that aren't only have a few seats left at full fare...
Don’t know. Just saying the Airlineroute article wasn’t accurate. MF is flying in both directions as we speak for example and with their regularly scheduled flight numbers.
Also Cargojet has had two 763 freighters to NRT over the last two days.
I believe cargo only. I'm hearing a lot of airlines are flying cargo only flights with passenger aircraft, with either packing the bellies of the aircraft full of air cargo