Originally Posted by
Will_YYT
I have heard from somebody I know at the airport that the LHR flight from St. John's has been significantly beating the load factors on the Halifax direct flight. Just looking at the Air Canada site it is evident that this flight is considerably busier on days it flies from YYT-LHR in comparison to YHZ-LHR. Tonight(February 26th) economy is nearly full, and the business class cabin is totally full. Air Canada should seriously look at just routing this flight from YYT! Clearly the market here is much stronger for it.
Comparing load factors between a flight operated with an A319 and a flight operated by a B767 is not a good way to determine how strong the market is.