Originally Posted by
Wallace99
Who's the incumbent ? west jets daily flights to Calgary?
Most airports offer some sort of incentive to new airlines, will these get it? I don't know - but it would make smart business sense for the airport which has what 300,000 passengers in a city of 500,000.
WJ operates 3x daily to YYC, plus n/s to Edmonton, Moncton and Halifax out of Hamilton.
After 15+ years in the market, WJ has a pretty good idea what works from YHM, what doesn't, and when.
WJ learned long ago that flights from secondary urban markets to other secondary urban airports rarely work.
Greyhound learned the hard way that non-stop trumps one stop trans-con every time. That may have not been the case in the DC9/737-200/300/MD80/727 era as that iron did not have reliable trans-con capability, but that all changed with the NG/Airbus/Emb era.
