Just thought I'd post an update. In this weeks OAG filing, WS has now removed YYC/YYZ-LGW until June 5th. Should hit the booking system by tonight. No LHR fillings yet.
Originally Posted by
Adam Smith
AC was twice daily from YVR in the summer, once in winter. From YYC, we had a brief period where we had all three of AC, BA, and WS in the LON market, but WS seemed to be eating BA's lunch even before COVID. BA had temporarily suspended service when they encountered the RR engine problems on their 787 fleet a couple years ago, and I don't think they had ever resumed it. They announced last year that they were killing the route permanently. I won't miss their terrible hard product, but it's too bad to lose the great connections they offered.
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BA last operated to YYC in 2019, from March-October.
That year was the one summer where all three of those airlines (AC/BA and WS) had J class service on YYC-LON, all of them had good LF's. Even TS had good loads too. I've heard mixed reasonings on why BA reduced back to seasonal from poor load factors, to the RR engines, to even a BA employee mentioning they didn't want to pay for deicing? (Could have been a mix of all of those factors). BA only cancelled the route a few months ago but I imagine they will be back in YYC at some point in the future, just not the next few years.