Originally Posted by
gilboman
not enough demand, AC has the infrastructure already in place and more planes. TS can make more money flying other routes with their very limited long range planes
no there's plenty of demand. Many Australians & Canadians fly via LAX, SFO or SEA to get between Australia & Canada.
Canada 3000 did very well out of the route YVR/HNL/BNE/SYD/AKL/RAR/HNL/YVR.
Canada 3000 were the launch airline for the A330-200 & put 340 economy seats in a 2-4-2 seating configuration on those aircraft.
Air Transat has plenty of A330s, (-200s & -300s) with various seating configurations, that can easily do YVR (or Abbotsford) to HNL or another Hawaiian airport, then onto various ports in Australia/NZ.
Qantas doesn't operate more nonstops to Canada, as they are a very high cost airline.
Air Transat could start with seasonal services eg. in northern winter. Twice a week would work.