[QUOTE=Salisbury5;7774597Day 2

You are still a freshman AC scheduler, but you have survived for Day 2.

You hate evening flights to Europe. You love the Daytripper flight fom YYZ to LHR as the perfect antidote to jetlag.

Your boss is considering a summer Daytripper flight from YUL to CDG. He asks you "What are the main stumbling blocks to setting up this service, and how should it be scheduled it we go with it??"

You consider things like load factor, feeder flights, aircraft availability, etc.

What do you tell him?[/QUOTE]

Some things to consider:
- Flight time (including time change) YUL-CDG = 13 hours
- Assume 2 hour layover to deplane, clean, prepare and load for return
- Flgiht time (including time change) CDG - YUL = 2 hours

Issues:
- What is curfew time at YUL? Need to ensure return arrives comfortably before curfew.
- There will be little/no feed at CDG since it is not a *A hub.
- The flight will arrive late at YUL, so likely not a lot of inbound connections to other destinations since people will have to overnight.
- In order to get back to YUL at a reasonable hour, the flight would have to leave at around 07:00, arriving at 20:00, depart at 22:00, arrive back in YUL just before midnight. This will give little or no feed out of YUL since again an overnight is required.
- We'd want to launch this with a smallish aircraft - likely 763 since we'd want J to appeal to business travellers who might like the timing. With a 767M we lose out any hope of J revenue. Do we have any 763 to spare?
- Could we continue this flight on to somewhere else like BEI or CAI and then have it return early the next morning?
- Higher speed of 777 or 787 could allow later departure and potential for some feed out of YUL, but this is likely not a high enough yield route for 777 and the 787's are a few years away.