Originally Posted by boymimbo
But what city pairs in the US would AC be able to exploit that the US carriers haven't already? I think the pairs are few and far between.
I think you'd be surprised at what AC might do if Canada and the USA exchanged cabotage rights. There are many underserved cities in the USA that have high fares. RIC comes to mind, but there are probably better cities where AC already has operations. AC could do YUL-RIC-LAX with 2x daily A319's. No carrier flies RIC-LAX non-stop....there's probably enough traffic to support 2 A319's without the feeder traffic from YUL, never mind with it. And on the return flight (RIC-YUL), AC could pick-up some connecting traffic heading for Europe.