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Aug 10, 2008 | 10:48 pm

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Originally Posted by Altaflyer

So AC can find a 763 to do YEG-CUN. Why can't AC eat Westjet's lunch by running a 763 to Hawaii from Alberta???? Asleep at the switch in Montreal? Surely they could offer near daily service to each of HNL and OGG from a split of YYC and YEG (ie. offer the NS on alternate days from each AB city). Hawaii is very popular and there are zero non-stop alternatives and WS cannot respond. I think it was a mistake to upgauge YVR to a 333 to HNL instead of splitting this into AB and BC service on 763s. They surely have spare birds given some of the service cuts kicking around.

They do not have spare birds. By the end of this year the 767-200s will be gone and there will be 27 767-300s. And with the XM program for the 330-330s, there will likely be one aircraft out of service at any given time.

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