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Old Jul 4, 2004 | 11:13 am
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Originally Posted by airbus320
Oil companies drill exploratory oil wells based on promising geological data. Air Canada must have data that shows some promise for these new routes.
Another possible advantage is that these should be better winter than summer routes, and that applies to all of the South American services. For Caracas, Bogota and Havana, you can keep those routes going with narrowbodies in the summer, then use a larger aircraft coming off Europe in the winter. Transatlantic routes like Rome, Milan, Amsterdam, Madrid and Zurich may do reasonably well in summer but if they can't make money on a full year basis, why bother. You can only have so many 767s and so many summer only transatlantic routes. If you can't use them productively in winter, you can't really afford them at all. So if AC can find more Latin American routes, it balances out the route system and makes better use of the widebody fleet.
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