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Old Jun 4, 2020 | 1:20 pm
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Originally Posted by cyralax
I thought AC stopped selling AC9/10 as a through route and started selling YYZ-YYC as it's own leg as of a year or two ago? I do agree that there might be a chance that the route gets axed altogether, Y never seemed like it got over 85% LF when I flew it, but J always seemed busy or almost full.
They stopped doing through flight numbers for a while due to the Amadeus transition, but I flew AC10 YYC-YYZ in late October 2019.

Or perhaps you're thinking of a time the non-stop YYZ-NRT was running? I think when that was on, there wasn't a YYZ-YYC-NRT "direct" flight.

Originally Posted by Symmetre
With all due respect Adam, I suspect it's the "13 or so years" part that most likely contributes to you not sharing that same sense of nostalgia with old farts like me.
Like I said, I understand where others are coming from

and I will concede that many of the fins were getting up there in age and thus more prone to going mechanical toward the end ... but it wasn't always that way.
Towards the end? I remember 763s being a pain from an MX perspective, including the sink issue, 10 years ago, when they still had quite a bit of life left. Again, my sample size isn't huge, but the problems have been vastly disproportionate.
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