Last Olympic flight departs Canada (YUL)

September 28th, 2009 was a sad day for Montreal & Toronto aviation enthusiasts as Olympic Airlines operated their very last flight to these two cities. Here we see one of Olympic`s A340-300`s departing Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport on runway 24R. This is Olympic's last take-off in Canada after more than 20 years of serving Montreal & Toronto. This decision was taken as Olympic reorganizes itself under new private ownership and focuses on developping their local market. One day, hopefully, Olympic Airlines will return and once again grace the Canadian skies. I will sure miss Olympic's A343's eating up YUL's runways on those hot & humid summer days. Good bye OIympic and thanks for your many years of service

Sorry for the poor quality of the video - with dark skies and rain falling, the lighting conditions were terrible.

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• Olympic
• A340
• A343
• A340-300
• airplane
• take-off
• YUL
• last
• flight

[helflo]

why did they stop to come to Toronto ant Yul ?

[YULspotter]

September 28th was the last flight to both Montreal & Toronto.

[helflo]

and why?

[YULspotter]

Olympic is restructuring under new private ownership and part of the changes are to suspend all overseas flying. They may resume these flights again in the future.

[Evan747]

Great video!

By the way, what are they doing with runway 06R/24L? Are they just doing general repairs on it? I know at the beginning of the summer 06L/24R was closed for a while, and now the other runway is closed until November. You seem to be at the airport a lot so just curious as to what you've seen going on. I've only heard that it's closed on the ATIS.

[YULspotter]

06R/24L is closed for general repairs. Right now, they appear to be working on the threshold area of the runway. Maybe some re-surfacing. 06L/24R was closed most of the summer as they were resurfacing some of the taxiways.

[freedomairwaves]

@YULspotter Olympic went into Bankruptcy! It was on their web site! The new airline named Olympic Air has nothing whatsoever to do with the government run airline. The 4 Airbus A340-300's used on their long haul flight like Canada, owned by the Greek Government still sit on the taxiway in Athens collecting dust ($ 80 million each X 4 aircraft)!!!! Shame on the Greek Government!!! The People are still sleeping!!! KSIPNISTE REEEEE!!!!

[sakusia]

very nice commentary from YULspotter describing this video. It is kind of shocking that one of the most recognized carriers in the world, will not be flying to North America anymore. I certainly will also miss the A340 as i've flown it quite a few times. I don't know but it looked really good in Olympic colours. Probably the nicest aircraft Olympic had, since the 707. I would say my 3 favorite commercial airplanes are the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, the Boeing 707 and the Airbus A340-300.

[KaleGroto]

The up loader just said it right in his commentary,greek goverments took in charge of the airline at late 70s and they finaly bankcrupt it after so many years!!! The same think happened to the greek nation , politics and all goverments since 1974 ruined and finaly bankcrupted the whole nation!!!!

hehe........and they claim they brought democracy back in 1974 to ruin the country!

[wizzair1313]

nono Im on a olympic flight tommorow...

[glykotsoutsounos666]

@paradox95 Opou kai na doulevw to lefta pou pairnw ta ferno!

Den plhrwnomai apo thn tseph tou Ellhna forologoumenou 10plasia apo osa a3izw!

Perastika sas!!!

[paradox95]

@glykotsoutsounos666 esu pou douleveis re file?

[YIANNIS777]

@YULspotter sorry pal but thats wishfull thinking... it has turned out to be a scam... there was no restructuring just a complete sellout, they bought new planes but kept their new non-greek pilots on a 1 year contract (while the greek olympic pilots were made redundant), and it has been announced that after the initial one year operation they are merging with aegean, the second class company which is a disgrace to be called greek !!!

Thank you for the video means alot to us young greeks!!!

[nojyt]

They will be back one day.... It was a good idea to re-focus on the basics and start making some money.

[spotmaniak1313]

Sou eipa steile mou ta cv tous na tous dinw 800.

Kala den einai???

Perastikaaaaaa!!!

[spotmaniak1313]

Zhse me th syntaxoula sou kai thn eforia na sou pairnei ta misa!!!

Egw kai alla 11.000.000 ellhnes GLYTWSAME apo thn parth sas!!!

Petaxe h kota me ta xrysa avga...

Kai twra pou 8a doulepsoun ta paidia???

Ti 8a ta kanete???

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