With 900 seats/day/each way in S19 Rome will firmly be the 4th European gateway for Air Canada after London (way bigger), Frankfurt (by far the most important Star Alliance HUB in Europe) and Paris.

The following is the ranking list about the capacity (seats/day/eachway) in Europe (July19) offered by AC/AC Rouge, as per the updated schedule



London : 3.147
Frankfurt : 1.807
Paris : 1.338
Rome : 900
Dublin : 596
Barcelona : 564
Athens : 564
Zurich : 509
Venice : 403
Copenhagen : 400
Lisbon : 363
Madrid : 298
Amsterdam : 298
Munich : 298
Geneva : 292
Brussels : 292
Budapest : 282
Prague : 282
Milan : 255
Warsaw : 211
Lyon : 209
Manchester : 202
ReyKjavik 169
Nice : 161
Berlin : 161
Bucharest 161
Edinburgh 161
Zagreb : 161
Marseille : 121
Glasgow : 121
Porto : 121
Shannon : 97




It seems to me that a YVR-FCO addition in the future (sort of 3-4xw B788 service) would be the "logical" next step in case AC keeps expanding from Vancouver, just like they have done in the really recent past (with the introduction of Frankfurt, Dublin, Paris, Zurich).