YYZ Pearson - storm impact for tomorrow morning

February 12, 2025 9:50 AM

I am flying out of Toronto Pearson Airport tomorrow morning at 9am, and am trying to guess the impact of the impending snow storm with respect to it causing my flight to be delayed or cancelled

The storm will continue well into the night. My Air Transat flight to the Caribbean is scheduled to depart at 9am, the incoming plane is set to arrive just after midnight in the peak of the storm. Based on your experience and/or knowledge of how Pearson recovers from storms, what could I expect to happen? Any indicators to keep an eye out for?

Note - I will get to the airport in plenty of time for my originally scheduled flight

posted by walkinginsunshine to Travel & Transportation around Toronto, ON (4 answers total)

When we flew out of Pearson around the holidays (I know, TERRIBLE idea), our flight down South was delayed on the tarmac for two hours to be de-iced twice as well as the runway to be cleared and that was with a few centimeters of snow! Does Air Transat have a cellphone notification system? That way you can keep an eye out for possible cancellation and rebooking? I would make sure that I have that option if offered.
posted by Kitteh at 9:56 AM on February 12

In my experience, it's pretty terrible, but you'll likely have an easier time the earlier in the day because they've had the night to kind of clean up things when there are few flights taking off, plus it's early enough in the day that there won't be an insurmountable de-icing linup and you're not running into the same flight crew scheduling issues as the crew ends up too long on shift due to delays and they need to wait for a new crew to arrive. So I'd say overall: likely delays but a good chance of taking off.

You can keep an eye on in the inbound flight on flightware.com to make sure it has actually showed up.

Good luck!
posted by urbanlenny at 12:45 PM on February 12 [2 favorites]

I can't speak to Pearson in particular, but I rely on Flighty for tracking flight status -- their predictive ability is quite good, and if you want the advanced features you can buy a subscription for just one week easily. They will definitely get you an alert if your plane has an issue landing, and they track general departures at each airport so they can identify the kind of problem you're worried about.
posted by Bryant at 1:01 PM on February 12 [1 favorite]

That Air Transat flight is showing as on time.
But there's a very very large number of cancelled and delayed flights.
posted by yyz at 5:03 AM on February 13 [1 favorite]