Unfortunately the AC flights from both LHR/FRA to YYC have not operated in many many months, and they keep getting cancelled for the upcoming month every 4 weeks or so. The AC schedule is not something you can rely on these days. I would only book flights that are actually operating now, not ones scheduled to re-start in a month or two.

This has been a farce to date. AC advertises many flights, people buy tickets in good faith, AC cancels many of these flights, and customers get an AC credit but not a refund. Any other business would get into big trouble for this.

May as well toss money in the trash - it will never fly and AC will keep your money

AC flights to YYC for January just cancelled . First flights are now Feb.

I'm confirmed to come - - if the flight operates - - the first week of March. A couple of things which make this uncertain.

1.) Program has cap of 52,000 participants. Not sure how they came up with this - but perhaps they are just getting data on which to make a decision so they don't want any more.
2.) Flight schedule is uncertain and AC has not run YYC from Europe for a while. I think it's possibly because their flying crew have historically been based in Vancouver so it's more complicated to run these.
3.) Rules just might change . . . . .

Anyone have any thoughts on what Kenny will do if the 52,000 is reached? Or is it the federal gov that is deciding this?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...utts-1.5839173

As of Thursday, the province said 14,382 travellers had taken tests.

About 1.4 per cent were positive with the initial swab. After the second test, the infection rate was 0.7 per cent.

The YYC preliminary update to 17 Dec. didn't change much but thought I'd share them

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b7d91c65b7.jpg

A 1% positive rate matches the amount recorded in the GTAA-McMaster study conducted earlier last Fall according to the interim report published here.

I mention these statistics to reinforce how low the positivity rate is for inbound int. arrivals and how rapid testing to me should be the way forward at Canadian airports.

EIA noted its monthly newsletter I received today that the Alberta government is supporting bringing the rapid testing pilot program to YEG "early in 2021".

As I said in the other thread rather than doing their ridiculous $1000 reward for going on vacation against the fed's directives put that $1000/pax towards arrivals testing and a shorter but actually enforced quarantine. Other countries including some of those of the main originating pax in to Canada make arriving passengers pay for their quarantine in facilities. Why is this such a non-starter with this government? Once you land at Pearson for example you are sent on your way to wherever you have said you are staying with a few quarantine directions. Canada as usual is the joke of the world when it comes to anything like border controls

What...

So Ford has agreement from GTAA to enter the premises to give these tests?

And the purpose to replicate the PCR test is ???

WOW!!!

YEG finally getting its own rapid testing pilot program although can't see how much good it will do now that the airport has virtually no international flights.

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/covid-19...port-1.5271682

EDMONTON -- A COVID-19 testing program that began in southern Alberta in November 2020 is expanding to Edmonton International Airport in February.

The tests could eliminate the 14-day quarantine period for international travellers and make Edmonton a safer and more convenient travel option, according to EIA.

"To be able to do that right at the airport upon travel and prove the negative test and test people asymptomatic is important," Steve Maybee with EIA told CTV News Edmonton. "It's all about health and safety."

One purpose would be to see if anything changed in the up to 85 hours in between when the person took their PCR test and when they land on Canadian soil.

If they are smart about it they do what AC/McMaster did in their earlier study and test on arrival and after 7 and 14 days.

Rapid tests are very imprecise

Looks like the Alberta pilot project has reached its conclusion:

Also based on statistics, we almost reached the pilot project max number:

https://www.alberta.ca/international...t-project.aspx