The world's first commercial holdover time service continues to thrive

The April 2012 results continue the string of outstanding results for Dan-Ice, and clearly demonstrate the quality and robustness of the service and product being offered by the Dan-Ice Canada to its clientele.

In addition to the Deicing Information Systems at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, Toronto-Pearson International Airport and Calgary International Airport, Dan-Ice Canada is eagerly working on the expansion of the service to other Canadian, American and global airports.

Turbine of Deicing Information System at YUL

The March 2012 results are amongst Dan-Ice’s strongest monthly results to date, and continue to demonstrate the quality and robustness of the service and product being offered by the Dan-Ice Canada to its clientele.

In addition to the Deicing Information Systems at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, Toronto-Pearson International Airport and Calgary International Airport, Dan-Ice Canada is eagerly working on the expansion of the service to other Canadian, American and global airports.

WestJet Boeing 737 at Ottawa Airport

Conducted in each of the last two quarters of 2011, the results showed that 44 per cent of Canadians said they prefer WestJet overall, as compared to 39 per cent for Air Canada. Participants were also asked to rate airlines in the categories of “genuinely cares”, best customer service, lowest prices and best value. In all categories, WestJet’s scores were approximately double that of Air Canada’s.

“I am extremely pleased with these results,” said Bob Cummings, WestJet Executive Vice-President, Sales, Marketing and Guest Experience. “WestJet has built its brand on the pillars that Canadians trust us, they like to fly with us and they feel we offer great value. We are now at the point where our schedule, our WestJet Rewards program, our appeal to business travellers and our award-winning guest experience have made us Canada’s preferred airline.”

The TNS Canada research is an ongoing online survey among Canadians who have taken a flight within the past 12 months. Approximately 2,700 surveys are completed each quarter in a nationally representative sample of Canadian flyers across the 10 provinces.

In light of current labour unrest at Air Canada, WestJet would also like Canadians to know that it is able to help travellers whose plans may be affected, particularly in Toronto and Montreal where most of the service disruptions have been reported.

From now until April 1, WestJet has approximately 26,000 seats available on flights leaving from Toronto and about 7,600 seats on flights leaving from Montreal. There are more than 143,000 seats available across WestJet’s 76-city national and international network over the next week or so.

“We want Canadians to know they can book a WestJet flight with confidence,” said Bob Cummings. “If travellers are worried that labour unrest at Air Canada will jeopardize their spring break vacation, their flight to visit family and friends, or their business trip, we want them to know that we will do our best to get them where they want to go.”

Flight arrangements can be made on westjet.com, through the WestJet Sales Super Centre at 1-888-WESTJET (1-888-937-8538) or by contacting your travel agent.

(source: westjet.com/guest/en/media-investors/index.shtml, news releases)

Deicing Information System at YUL

The February 2012 results are a testament to the maintenance and support structure put in place by Dan-Ice Canada in advance of the winter 2011-12, in addition to the quality and robustness of the service and product being offered by the Dan-Ice Canada to its clients. In addition to the Deicing Information Systems at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, Toronto-Pearson International Airport and Calgary International Airport, Dan-Ice Canada is eagerly working on the expansion of the service to other Canadian, American and global airports.

Dan-Ice hopes to announce aggresive expansion plans for the Canadian marketplace in upcoming weeks.

Happy Holidays to all from D-Ice

Merry Christmas

Hyvää Joulua

Joyeux Noel

Glædelig Jul

Gleðileg Jól

God Jul

Vrolijk Kerstfeest

Fröhliche Weihnachten

メリークリスマス

Καλά Χριστούγεννα!

Buon Natale

Feliz Navidad

And a very Happy Hanukkah

Dan-Ice Canada'a Managing Director after 6 days

Since its humble beginnings in Melbourne Australia, Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1.1 Million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas (their supportive significant others) to participate, with formal campaigns in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, the UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa and Ireland. In addition, Movember is aware of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas supporting the campaign and men’s health cause across the globe, from Russia to Dubai, Hong Kong to Antarctica, Rio de Janeiro to Mumbai, and everywhere in between.

No matter the country or city, Movember will continue to work to change established habits and attitudes men have about their health, to educate men about the health risks they face, getting them to act on that knowledge thereby increasing the chances of early detection, diagnosis and effective treatment.

In 2010, nearly 119,000 Canadian Mo Bros and Mo Sistas got on board, raising $22.3 million CAD.

Please join Dan-Ice Canada in supporting Movember in one of three ways:

1) Grow a moustache in solidarity with Dan-Ice personnel for Movember, and provide us, if interested, with before, during and after photographs that can be shared on this site;

2) Support our Mo-growing efforts at http://mobro.co/deicinginnovations; or

3) Support the Mo-growing attempts of one of our countless Mo Bros at www.movember.com.

Dan-Ice signs service agreement with APS Aviation

APS will provide third-party consulting services to Dan-Ice for the collection and analysis of data deriving from the Dan-Ice Deicing Information System in Cleveland, activities aimed at demonstrating the performance capabilities of the Dan-Ice DIIS to US stakeholders. 

Dan-Ice Canada will undertake the installation of the Deicing Information System (DIIS) at the airport in the upcoming weeks in collaboration with local stakeholders. United Airlines will sponsor the trial of the DIIS at Cleveland. The ultimate objective of the project in Cleveland is the development and substantiation of a regulatory approval process for liquid water equivalent (LWE) systems in the United States.

Dan-Ice is thankful for the response it has received from local stakeholders in Cleveland to date and looks forward to a successful project completion.

Our beloved launch customer!

Dan-Ice Canada is extremely excited to provide the holdover time service to WestJet this winter, and is incredibly thrilled with the level of support and commitment it has received from WestJet. Dan-Ice is eagerly working on its expansion of the service to other Canadian, American and global airports. Dan-Ice is also currently installing a Deicing Information System (DIIS) at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport with the goal of assisting in the development of a regulatory approval process with the Federal Aviation Administration for use of HOTDRs in the United States.

Dan-Ice will provide WestJet with holdover time determination reports (HOTDR) at three Canadian airports in winter 2011-12: Montreal, Toronto and Calgary.

Dan-Ice is thrilled to continue its relationship with WestJet and looks forward to the expansion of the service to other Canadian airports with WestJet in the near future.