Originally Posted by
iahphx
But for most markets -- and YUL would certainly be one of them -- it's completely unnecessary. There aren't enough anal people out there to worry about.
Just looking at a few LAX-YUL options in the summer, it appears that the real bottleneck is LAX-(DFW/ORD), as one might expect for hub-hub flights. Sure, there aren't that many anal people who need to travel from LAX to YUL, but taking into account all the LAX customers who want to go
somewhere this summer (or all the other customers who want to visit LAX), it's not surprising that awards on such "trunk" routes get snapped up pretty quickly.