WS retreating from YTH
 

Westjet is pulling out of Thompson, Manitoba 3 November. Seems that market can't support 737 service.

I wonder what fares those poor souls residing, or needing to head, up there will face form then on?

WS is also reducing YYC-YEG daily frequency by one.

Edit to say I think this is WS's 1st total withdrawal from a market?

[This message has been edited by terenz (edited 10-04-2002).]

Actually WS pulled out of YWG at the outset but obviously has since returned.

I seem to recall CP having daily 737 service to YTH that carried on to YYQ and sometimes YRT and we all know it was not the market that killed that off!

Actually, Calm Air was doing the service
under the CP code. The reason it was a 737
was because of the continued route up to YRT.

Canadian used to fly 737s into YTH, routing them through YFO or YQD (Flin Flon or The Pas). In the late 1990s, they cancelled the 737 service (nothing to do with AC), replacing it with some nonstop F28s to YTH. Calm Air took over flights to YFO and YQD. Canadian Regional dropped the F28 service to YTH a few years later, and Calm Air added some codeshare flights on their SF3s to replace it. The jets weren't being filled, and could be better used on other routes.

I'm not surprised that YTH can't support a 737 ... it's only a city of about 15,000 people.

[This message has been edited by StuMcIlwain (edited 10-05-2002).]