Canadian North has also small technical base at Ottawa airport, therefore I was pleased during my short visit by the ferry departure of this Boeing 737-300 in classic colours of the carrier.
I not only did not plan to visit the small airport Oakland County in Michigan State, I even did not know about it. However, when people at Detroit Willow Run airport told me about the technical base of IFL Group based there, I decided to pay a visit. As a reward two Boeing 727s not only awaited me behind the fence, moreover they both departed during my visit.
On the day of my departure home in beautiful sunny weather I decided to visit just for a short while Ottawa airport, about 2 hours drive from Montreal through beautiful Canadian countryside. My primary target was this logojet of Canadian North, promoting travel agency specializing in luxury cruise sails.
Air Inuit uses for flights from Montreal besides classic -200s also somehow newer Boeing 737-300s, although aircraft C-GFFN with its 32 years is also not the youngest.
While in our region aircraft like Jetstream practically completely disappeared from the skies, you can still meet few of them in Canada, for example Jetstream 32 of Pascan Aviation at Montreal - Saint-Hubert airport, although majority of them already frame parking aprons of the airport with their fate sealed.
This DHC-8 of Air Inuit also belongs to rare visitors, which can be seen among big airports exclusively in Montreal, otherwise it operates mainly between small communities with hardly pronounced names in Nunavik province.
Montreal is, unlike Toronto, visited also by many regional aircraft, which already almost disappeared in Europe, for example Air Creebec operates here frequently with their DHC8-100s and DHC8-300s.
Chrono Jet, a Chrono Aviation daughter company, operates from Montreal - Saint-Hubert and Quebec City airports charter flights mainly for mining companies with three B737-200s, this aircraft is in Combi version and is equipped with additional hushkits.
Winds of "modernity" at Nolinor Aviation, their sole B737-300 is with the age of 32 years the second youngest member in the fleet (only the B737-800 in OWG colours is younger).
Boeing 737s version -600 almost entirely disappeared from the skies, one of the few that still flies and moreover carries an interesting paint scheme is this aircraft with registration C-GKFP, operated by Kelowna Flightcraft under trading name Aeroflyer. It visits Montreal - Saint-Hubert airport very rarely.
The only airline, with which you can buy tickets to fly from Saint-Hubert airport near Montreal, is Pascan Aviation, which operates with Saab 340s and Jetstream 32s and handles its flights in their own terminal.
When I thought, that nothing can motivate me to visit small airport Saint-Hubert on the eastern outskirts of Monteal on Saturday morning, the arrival of 8 Boeing 737s, including six in -200 version, within 3 hours showed how I was wrong.
Nolinor Aviation has its technical base at Mirabel Airport near Montreal, which previously served for international flights, but today has only minimal traffic. Among their Boeing 737-200s stands out this example in the promotional livery of sports team Montreal Alouettes.
This Boeing 747-400F of Compass Air Cargo arrived for the first time on 14 October 2023 in the last rays of light to Budapest on a Qatar Airways cargo flight.
Air Saint-Pierre from the namesake French overseas collectivity close to Canadian coast is among rare visitors to Montreal, as it is the sole big airport, where its ATR-42-600 operates.
The durability of Boeing 727 and 737-200s is not endless even in Canada. And so Canadian North have been pushed to employ also Boeing 737s of second generation in their fleet, including this almost 30-years old B737-400 in Combi version.
Second B737-200, which operates regularly from Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, is this aircraft with Raglan title, which transports mining companies workers to their stations. It uses General Aviation Terminal and therefore operates almost exclusively from RWY 06R/24L. Glencore Canada Corporation
In September I headed for a trip to Canada after longer time, with the aim to hunt some older aircraft. In Montreal I was pleased on my first day by this Boeing 737-200 of Air Inuit, which operates here regularly, of course with the usual kit for operations on unpaved runways.
In connection with yesterday´s football match Spartak Trnava - Fenerbahce Istanbul besides the aircraft of the visiting club two Embraers Lineage 1000 of Air X Charter visited Bratislava to bring and pick-up again probably somehow more wealthy fan of Istanbul.
After we missed this aircraft under unbelievable circumstances during our trip to Benelux in 2022, I finally caught it today at Vienna. It operated a humanitarian cargo flight to Benghazi in Libya, fortunately with 3 hours delay.
