<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Shareholder:
Remember, the winter schedule has a daily flight between YVR and HNL with a more [tourist] convenient midday scheduled arrival/departure. I suspect AC is channelling any direct passengers onto this flight, and just putting through SYD passengers onto the traditional late afternoon/midnight one. Same with the new YYC service which is not intended to connect with the SYD flights, but to handle the tourist trade.
Makes sense to segregate bookings this soon in the season, so AC isn't losing any business, Empress, just responding sensibly with flights to HNL that also connect to/from inter-island flights.</font>
Interesting but then YYC and YEG connecting pax have an extremely tight connection on the outbound and no connection on the return as the flight arrives at 9:30pm, after connecting flights have left. Yes, YYC and YEG have non-stops to HNL as well but not every day (I think combined its 4 or 5 flights per week). AC is asleep at the switch again. Also, if they can fill a plane to SYD from YVR then why not run a non-stop? There will obviously be YYZ connecting pax at HNL going to SYD so the YVR flight WILL NOT be full of SYD bound pax.