Originally Posted by
Iam787
I'd be interested to hear why? YEG already his direct on AC, and Icelandair has excellent connections and timing to the UK and Europe, and KLM also recently started to AMS. The market in YEG is fairly tight with the amount of competition and smaller population area, so I would be surprised to see WestJet go to YEG.
Yes, YEG has AC service for now but it's dropped to seasonal and could see it being dropped altogether so WS timing might be good to pick up a LON route to replace AC. Also YEG hasn't had a nonstop summer charter to UK for a number of years so wouldn't face competition on that front. There is enough demand that I think WS could make it work with 1 -2 flights per week.
Edmonton is after all the 6th largest metro market in Canada and not far behind Calgary at #5 though yes, I know there much more corp. travel with the southern cities HQ's in the energy sector.
BTW I haven't heard where WS is acquiring it's 767-300ERW from so does anyone know?