New Airline to launch Transcon routes out of YHM by end of Summer, how will AC react?
Jan 7, 2016, 8:26 am
#121
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You're pushing the endurance limits of the 734 with that route.
Doing a dummy booking, F8 is the code that shows up.
YXE looks like it could be used for connections to/from eastern/western Canada. However the website only sells non stops.
YXE looks like it could be used for connections to/from eastern/western Canada. However the website only sells non stops.
Jan 7, 2016, 9:28 am
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This will have a greater impact on WS than AC. WS's customers are much more price-sensitive. (Any coincidence a big one-day seat sale was launched today by WS?)
Jan 7, 2016, 2:28 pm
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If in fact the fees are per seg, that means your bag just became a 50$ bag instead of a 25$ one assuming you had to change planes. . Since going to YHZ might mean a cnx in YHM check out the language on missed connections. They absolve themselves of any responsibility. In theory you might have to buy a whole new ticket, because they were late and you misconnected. There is absoutly no irpops protection. They do have a kind of insurance protection that allows you a limited number of free flight changes.
It's one thing to not provide a hotel for a weather-induced overnight. It's quite another to say "You missed your flight, so you have to buy a new ticket."
Jan 7, 2016, 7:09 pm
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1 significant mechanical will throw their schedule into chaos a la Sky Greece. At least Customers will not be stranded an Ocean away. Agreed, that however long their reign may be, Westjet will be more impacted albeit minimally.
Jan 7, 2016, 9:08 pm
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Jan 7, 2016, 9:42 pm
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Jan 7, 2016, 10:27 pm
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Thought only AC did that.
Who knew!?
Last edited by CloudsBelow; Jan 7, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Jan 8, 2016, 6:11 am
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It is irresponsible to craft a schedule with no flexibility due to IRROPS. Yes aircraft do break down.
Note to self: stay away from this airline.
Jan 8, 2016, 7:13 am
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I do however think that new airlines should be required to put a couple million dollars in escrow to fund getting their passengers home when they go spontaneously bankrupt, stranding Granny in Hamilton.
Once they've operated successfully for five years they can have the money back. Bonus is the couple million will probably have earned a better ROI than the airline.
Last edited by gglave; Jan 8, 2016 at 7:25 am
Jan 8, 2016, 7:17 am
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The fam-damly just booked tickets from Vancouver to Southern California. We were surprised it was the same cost to fly out of YVR as it was to fly from BLI.
Jan 8, 2016, 7:23 am
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For a lot of Metro Vancouver, it's not.
For example, for many of my friends in Surrey, time-wise YXX is as convenient as YVR - And in some cases it's more convenient (as is BLI for that matter, if you have Nexus).
If you're in somewhere like Maple Ridge YXX is very handy, provided you don't mind paying the toll on the Golden Ears bridge (and the much cheaper parking at YXX mitigates the toll anyway).
For example, for many of my friends in Surrey, time-wise YXX is as convenient as YVR - And in some cases it's more convenient (as is BLI for that matter, if you have Nexus).
If you're in somewhere like Maple Ridge YXX is very handy, provided you don't mind paying the toll on the Golden Ears bridge (and the much cheaper parking at YXX mitigates the toll anyway).