Originally Posted by
dliesse
Okay, let's change the first itinerary to Victoria - Vancouver - Kelowna - Calgary - Brandon - Toronto. (I knew if I thought about it long enough I could remember the other small city east of Calgary, besides Saskatoon!)
For the second flight I want to say it was Eastern Provincial Airways, but their only jets were 737-200s. So I'm going to go with a Wardair 747-200.
12. You have
correctly guessed all four stops made by the Pacific Western flight in question.
And the second flight was indeed operated with a 747....but not by Wardair. So that means this flight was operated by CP Air.
Here are the scheds....
PW 100: Victoria (YYJ) 7:10a - 7:32a Vancouver (YVR) 8:15a - 8:57a Kelowna (YLW) 9:25a - 11:12a Calgary (YYC) 11:45a - 2:15p Brandon (YBR) 2:35p - 6:00p Toronto (YYZ)
Freq: Daily except Sat. & Sun. YYJ-YVR, Daily YVR-YYC, Daily except Sat. YYC-YYZ
Service class: Y
Meal services: None
Equip: 73S
Connecting to....
CP 296: Toronto (YYZ) 8:00p - 10:55p Halifax (YHZ)
Freq: Mondays only
Service class: P/C/Y
Meal service: Dinner
Equip: 747
Note: Complete routing for CP 296 was YYZ-YHZ-AMS
Pacific Western was finally able to serve Toronto when the airline was permitted to operate nonstop service from Brandon, a small city in Manitoba province. Brandon had less than 40,000 residents in 2007 and one wonders about the passenger loads on this service which was the only flight being operated by PW into YYZ at this time. I have no doubt that Pacific Western was intending to serve Toronto with the 767-200 aircraft it subsequently acquired; however, nonstop route authority to YYZ from larger cities in central and western Canada remained elusive for the Calgary-based air carrier. Here's the Pacific Western route map from the fall of 1982:
https://www.departedflights.com/PW103182.html