Originally Posted by
Stranger
First, that's not quite true.
But more importantly, given their profit sharing agreement with LH, it was conveninent for them to pass on the route to EW Discover, with relatively little penalty. Of course that EW there is no room for upgrades does not matter too much to them...
YYC-FRA would need a lot of business travel, which appears to still be dormant.
NAP & PRG are mostly tourist destinations. Lots of those recently and they're working. My brother (a quasi-regular TATL business traveller) was returning from holiday on the new ARN-YUL route. He found it odd it left ARN at 9:00am. Tourists don't care about losing a day flying plus it landed YUL at 10:00am so perfect for connections into the US for that all important 6th freedom traffic.
AC knows where the bread is buttered these days and it’s not YYC-FRA