Originally Posted by
SparseFlyer
They probably treat YYC the same way they treat YUL and the Asian market. "They can connect in YYZ anyway, like the rest of our US traffic".
Should be happy that YYC/YEG/YVR often share the same fares for Asia P flights. YUL gets what I like to call "the rapidair surcharge".
You should try being in YOW, which always has and always will punch below our weight (metro population of 1.3M) because AC can funnel us to YYZ
or YUL on a short haul flight and say "there you go". Talk to me about the rapidair surcharge.
Air Canada has a very public strategy of funneling people through hubs, which go roughy as YYZ > YVR > YUL > YYC.
YYC ends up lower on the hub totem pole because of less population, less O/D demand and a less desirable geographic situation relative the other hubs. But you still get a lot more than YOW or YEG, cities of very similar size that lose out because of our geographic proximity to other hubs. I don't think any of this is going to change.