I'm so excited, I just have to share my pre-flight excitement. Last spring I first wrote about what I called the most random transatlantic route. Specifically, German leisure airline Condor flies once weekly seasonally between Frankfurt and Whitehorse, located in Canada's Yukon territory. This just seems like such an awesome and random route, and I've…
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Hope you have a good flight. Condor is better than you would expect. We fly FRA YYC on Friday also the last flight of the season.
Whitehorse is an international airport so will be properly staffed.
There is a JetBlue plane in the photo, directly behind the Condor flight. When did they start flying to Whitehorse?
YXY doesn't even open the security until an hour or so before a flight. It's definitely a "when needed" type of airport. You can literally walk into town.
D-ABUC operates today’s flight, and it’ll arrive about two hours late in YXY...
That Flightradar24 flightpath view is pretty cool. Does anyone know if there is a flightpath view on a globe view? Like being able to move the globe around like Google Earth would be very cool.
@ Chubb, I believe it is. It looks like a picture that recently was posted on Airliners in a thread about MSY.
@Mitch - There is also a Frontier, American, Southwest, and United plane in the background. So unless everyone and their mother has recently started flying to Whitehorse, the photo Lucky used is most definitely a different airport.
When I first read the caption “White Horse” I thought it said “White House.” Oops!!!!!
I would love to see the current home of the world leader us president Don Trump.
That is a picture of Condor's first flight to New Orleans (MSY) which was last year. I recently tried their product from New Orleans to Frankfurt - in Economy - and the post will be on my blog soon. Overall, I was confused by their product in whether they were trying to be low-cost or full-service airline. Free luggage and basic meals plus drink/coffee/tea/water are included in the price, but you have to pay for seat assignments and for entertainment. It was an odd mix. Also, they don't seem to fly the newest planes in the fleet.
It’s a wonderful warm day in Whitehorse . Enjoy your flight and enjoy Whitehorse
I'll be interested to read your review, since I'm flying Condor business class from Frankfurt to Halifax next month. This will be my first time on Condor. My ticket, which cost about 700 euros, includes an Aegean flight from Athens to Frankfurt and use of Lufthansa's business class lounge.
When I flew from Juneau to Whitehorse back in the 90's on a turboprop with only 3 passengers there was indeed an immigration officer waiting who quickly and courteously cleared us through. At the time I believe the 3 weekly flights from Juneau were the only international service into Whitehorse.
I have been to Whitehorse a few times but a look ways drove there. There are flights from Juneau and Vancouver I believe. A nice town. Very cold in the winter. Lots of French Canadians there. Tough people.
I live in Juneau, and I'm pretty confident Alaska Seaplanes has flights from Juneau to Whitehorse during the summer. Granted, those aren't huge planes, but they'd still necessitate a customs officer at the airport. Was just in Whitehorse last weekend and it's a lovely, funky little town, with a very unique character. The aurora has been out in force the last week or so; hopefully you'll get a good show!
Wow, your flight went much further north than you expected! What did northern Greenland and Nunavut look like?
This will be good. I think I have seen Whitehorse on the tv show about the Buffalo Airways nutters who fly old Convairs and Electras around the icebound north or maybe it was on Ice Road Truckers who are also nuts.
Roll on the review. After Transaero, I hope the now Condor branded plane still has all its essential parts.