Originally Posted by
tracon
The precursor to every recession.
Remember YVR-CDG in 2000
YOW-SJC in 2001
you mean canadian recession right?
considering usd>cad wouldn't it be wise to try to scoop up as many us pax for flights to europe?
Originally Posted by
Jagboi
When did they drop that route? I can remember doing it on AC metal circa 2005. J was $100 more than Y, so a no brainer for me.
yycsfo was dropped around 2010-2011, flown on the e90
very light loads, always easy to get on as staff
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.
americans love flying on ac, free liquor on overseas, non hd'd aircraft are comfortable, cnx experience in yyz is decent. if you're in pdx or slc and you have to cnx via ord or iad anyways....
it's a pretty decent strategy assuming govt can help this to work, which is unlikely
and you cannot assume someone in san or sfo or iad is automatically loyal to ua, typically consumers go to the lowest bidder