Originally Posted by
YEGTigger
The quote from Ben Smith seems to indicate that they are doing this as a way to get US travellers to connect through Canada to Europe and Asia. I'm trying to wrap my head around this. They're suggesting that someone in IAD, ORD or SFO is going to connect through YYZ or YVR to go to the final destination, when UA likely has a direct flight out of those hubs?
Some of the other new flights, I can see that (PDX, SAN), but not a UA hub (or a DL hub either - SLC). AC's product isn't that good.
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Ask me to tell you about the guy from PDX sitting in front of my in J on my YVR-NRT a few days ago (with his buddy sitting back in Y) and the reasons they gave me for flying AC via YVR vs DL from PDX.
Ask me to tell you about the pax from LAX and SFO who were on my YYZ-TLV flights, and the reasons they gave me for choosing the route.
Did I mention the price of their tickets (versus ours) was one reason?
