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Old Jan 31, 2010 | 12:19 am
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Originally Posted by TheGreatestX
Actually WestJet is still the biggest carrier in terms of non-stop seats per week.

From YVR:
Air Canada: 840
Philippines: 1056
WestJet: 2114

From BLI:
Alaska Airlines: 372
Allegiant: 1800

http://cms.mccarran.com/dsweb/Get/Do...20Activity.xls
Well how about that, I'm more than a little surprised, although G4 had put a lot of planes away for the winter. Last summer they were running 2-3/daily, which put them around 2700/seats week. Hadn't realized they had cut back that much. To put it in perspective though, I'm flying down on Friday, and they had 3 flights, back on Monday, 3 flights again. I don't think WS will on top for long

If you go back (WS / G4)
JUN 1298 / 2700
JUL 1162 / 2700
AUG 1826 / 2550
SEP 1706 / 2700
OCT 2234 / 2550
NOV 2114 / 2250
DEC 2114 / 1500
JAN 2114 / 1800
So it's only in the last 2 months that WS beat out G4. Looking at Feb's schedule for G4, they're operating 3 3 0 1 3 4 1 (flights/day sun-sat) for the 1st full week of Feb so that's 2250 seats again

Also, PR's numbers are somewhat inflated, as they assume an A340 full of people flew YVR-LAS, whereas in reality, at least half flew MNL-YVR-LAS

Lastly, I did mention that DL don't fly YVR-LAS, and they still don't non-stop, but OO (DL connection) apparently have one of their YVR-SLC trips continue to LAS, just to clarify that a bit.


Lastly, kudos to McCarran for publishing such interesting data
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