Originally Posted by
canolakid
not sure where you are starting from, but why not try LX for the TALT portion? In J you get the arrivals lounge in Zurich (shower, quiet usually) then can make your way leisurely to whatever carrier gets you the short hop to Nice. Intra Europe is not worth J price for a Y- product.
LX flies ZRH-NCE, so you can be on business the whole way. The good/bad news is that LX is a very early departure from YUL, getting you into NCE pretty early in the morning. Problem is that it's tougher to sleep on the flgiht because you leave (and arrive) so early.
If you want to try multiple offerings, you could book on United.ca and do something like YVR-ORD-FRA-NCE (United on longhaul) with NCE-ZRH-SFO-YVR (Swiss on the longhaul). The SFO routing adds some extra miles to the journey.