Strange Swoop schedule
Jan 20, 2019, 5:15 am
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Strange Swoop schedule
So I'm planning a trip to the GTA sometime in the spring and was checking if Swoop is a viable option for me from YHZ. I noticed that while all of the YHM-YHZ departures are at 6:30 arriving at 9:30 local time, on most days the return flight leaves at 16:15. I was looking at mid-May.
Does Swoop really leave a 737 on the ground in the middle of the day in YHZ for nearly 7 hours? That sounds terribly inefficient. Or maybe there is a schedule change that has only partially made it through the system.
Does Swoop really leave a 737 on the ground in the middle of the day in YHZ for nearly 7 hours? That sounds terribly inefficient. Or maybe there is a schedule change that has only partially made it through the system.
Jan 20, 2019, 8:08 am
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Can't imagine where. Swoop only flies to YHM from YHZ and that is only once a day. Unless they are borrowing the bird for mainline, and I don't think that they do that.
edit: Here's some unlikely speculation. Maybe they do a thorough cleaning in YHZ. According to wikipedia they'll have 10 birds by spring 2019. 5 days out of every 7 they have a 6:45 stop in YHZ. Assuming a thorough cleaning takes 5+ hours they could clean every cabin every two weeks in YHZ if they rotated the fleet appropriately.
edit: Here's some unlikely speculation. Maybe they do a thorough cleaning in YHZ. According to wikipedia they'll have 10 birds by spring 2019. 5 days out of every 7 they have a 6:45 stop in YHZ. Assuming a thorough cleaning takes 5+ hours they could clean every cabin every two weeks in YHZ if they rotated the fleet appropriately.
Last edited by smallmj; Jan 20, 2019 at 8:16 am
Jan 20, 2019, 9:50 am
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The aircraft is very unlikely to sit on the ground or receive any maintenance during the day. Swoop will soon publish the rest of the summer schedule, expect to see a flight from YHZ to somewhere else added. Bear in mind the same aircraft operating the inbound YHM-YHZ flight won’t necessarily be operating the return. In general the most efficient flying in North America starts with as many aircraft in the east early in the day and more in the west at the end of the day with red-eye flights used for repositioning, compared with the same aircraft being shuttled on the same route.
Jan 20, 2019, 10:42 am
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Thanks Aerobod. The current route map would certainly suggest YHM-YHZ-YHM turns, but if they add YYT (or YHU?) then they could do more interesting triangle routings and the schedule would suddenly make a lot more sense.