Westernflyer,

Very doubtful. I think in the YYC-YQR/YXE corridor, you will end up seeing the routes being picked up by YYZ-bound A319/A320 aircraft in the future, much like Westjet already does into YHM.

As an example, AC could do YYZ-YXE-YYC and YYZ-YQR-YYC, and return, falling within the 10 hour duty time limits of a single flight crew.

This would be the most logical arrangement for Saskatchewan, as the current schedule always requires overnight hotel stays for the crew of AC1128. Also it would allow for the elimination of the YQR-YXE flights (AC 1128, AC 6081, AC 157, AC 1127) which do not contribute at all to AC's revenue and for 15 more minutes in the air, you could reach YYC anyways.

Just my 2 cents. I hope the debtors make AC look very long and hard at their route network and increasing fleet utilization and removing severe scheduling deficiencies (as above) will be key to a successful AC reorganization.