AltaFlyer:
Those flights that you saw out of YYZ to the USA with low load factors, they were still around because they had very high yields.
Some like YYZ-DCA had yields in the 60-cent per mile range. Yields on YEG-ORD would run in the 20-cent per mile range.
Others routes like YYC-IAH lived on the PAID J class traffic. There were many times when the load in Business class exceeded the load in economy and because of this made a healthy profit. It was impossible to downguage the flights to an A319 because we needed the extra eight J seats. No wonder Continental jumped into the route.
The CRJ’s that ran between YYZ and YUL needed seven passengers to break even, whereas the CRJ’s between YEG and YYC needed fifty-two.
What irks me is not that you think that AC has done things the wrong way [Lord knows that I do not believe them to be altruistic, all-knowing, or right], but why expect that AC and only AC is to blame for everything. Why not chastise BA for not serving YEG-LHR, or AA for not initiating YEG-ORD, or DL for withdrawing from YEG-LAX, or UA for not picking up YEG-DEN, or WS for not starting YEG-YUL, or HA for not flying YEG-HNL, or why doesn’t NW have four flights a day to MSP like they did before they started YYC service, or, or………
PE:
I live in Edmonton because I was born here, my family is here and yes, it is a great place to live. Where else would they be doing Spring road repairs in February?
Although does the Mayor of Dorval still guarantee that there will be no potholes bigger than a chicken in his city??
p.s “Deadmonton” was the term used by some, in both the AC and CP marketing departments. It was hard to smile when they said it.
p.p.s. For those of you who don't know Edmonton:
Highest GDP growth in Canada
Lowest home prices of a major city
Is it 2nd or 3rd for per capita disposable income? [it was in the paper the other day, but memory fails].
Lowest overall Business costs of 86 cities worldwide.
Estimated investment in projects just to the North of the city over $60 billion
80pct of the producing oil wells in Alberta are in the Edmonton region [not YYC].
http://www.ede.org/EDECorporate/index.htm
[This message has been edited by exAC (edited 02-21-2002).]