Originally Posted by
hollywoodcory17
its probably in the 25-30% range in terms of what’s been cut.
Here’s a summary of the routes dropped for this summer:
YYC-RDU
YYC-OGG
YYC-FLL
YEG-SEA
YEG-SFO
YEG-ATL
YEG-ORD
YEG-BNA
YEG-YUL
YVR-BOS
YVR-BNA
YVR-TPA
YVR-SFO
YVR-SAN
YVR-MCO
YVR-YUL
YVR-YOW
YLW-SEA
YYZ-LAX
YYZ-LAS
YWG-ATL
YWG-LAS
YWG-BNA
YYC-HNL has a brief suspension from late April until June 27.
I haven’t fully reviewed all the domestic changes, but it seems at least some of that has gone to domestic increases as well as more flights to Mexico / Caribbean.
It's interesting that several of the routes being discontinued involve airports where WS is trying to compete against a dominant home carrier. Routes into ORD and SFO are less useful than competing flights from United because the latter plug into the major hubs UA operates at those airports. The YEG-SEA and YLW-SEA routes were OK options but, again, are of less value than the directly competing AS services into its SeaTac hub. The same arguably applies with YEG-YUL and YVR-YUL as YUL is one of AC's most important hubs. YVR-YOW? The latter is becoming a key PD hub.
The really regrettable losses are the YEG-ATL and YWG-ATL flights which plug into the most important hub of WS' partner DL. The problem with the Edmonton flight, though, has always been that it doesn't benefit from preclearance at YEG.