Originally Posted by
ChrisA330
You must have missed this quote:
"For those traveling onward in the U.S. these new routes strengthen Air Canada's connections with major hubs of its partner United Airlines, including Houston , Denver , San Francisco and Washington -Dulles, giving customers more travel options and convenient connections throughout the U.S. and Latin America ," said Benjamin Smith , President, Passenger Airlines, at Air Canada."
SLC has limited International service (CDG plus seasonal AMS and LHR), so if passengers have to connect anyway, AC would prefer it to be in YYZ.
I did miss that. Thanks. I was clearly not awake.
So, then basically the plan is: Connect to UA hubs for Canada to US/SA travel, but have people on AC metal for the transborder leg. Then connect to other cities to get people from the US to connect in YYZ/YVR to Europe or Asia.
Plus a couple of those destinations might have some O/D traffic.