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Old Aug 11, 2008 | 8:32 am
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Originally Posted by Shareholder
The customer base may be there in Alberta, but the operating economics are not. ...... (While CUN is a tourist/vacation route, the aircraft can fly down overnight and return early enough in the day to be put onto another route each week after it gets back. Time zones are not as problematic down there as they are to/from Hawaii.)
1. The CUN shedule uses this plane the entire day (not overnight), leaves 08:45 and arrives at YEG 21:45 so Hawaii can actually use the plane overnight not CUN.

2. Have you seen the money floating around here recently....I am pretty sure that AB origin Hawaii flights would do much better than BC, even Business would get takers.

3. Are all eastern sun destination flights all daily so as to make a 3x a week flight out west a crazy proposition? Doubtful.

4. People always say if it made sense then AC would have already done it. Sure...okay.
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