Originally Posted by Science Goy

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.