Possible New Long Haul Air Canada Routes in the next 5 years
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It's just unfortunate that AC is cutting their investment into YYC. Every time I'm in the city I really enjoy it, it's the gateway to the Rockies, and the new airport expansion is beautiful. It would be interesting if AC made YYC a backup to YVR for flights to Asia. YYC is only ~1hr farther from cities in Asia than YVR, and it would relieve congestion in YVR, allowing AC to add new routes to Southeast Asia and/or South America out of YVR.
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It's just unfortunate that AC is cutting their investment into YYC. Every time I'm in the city I really enjoy it, it's the gateway to the Rockies, and the new airport expansion is beautiful. It would be interesting if AC made YYC a backup to YVR for flights to Asia. YYC is only ~1hr farther from cities in Asia than YVR, and it would relieve congestion in YVR, allowing AC to add new routes to Southeast Asia and/or South America out of YVR.
2. YYC is likely less than one hour more than YVR from most places in Asia.
3. However this is mainly WS territory. Asia-bound traffic originating here is substantially less than from YVR.
The NRT flight is predicated upon Japanese tourism in the Banff area. Very popular in Japan. Still, borderline because largely low fare. Didn't I hear the flight exist only because it's subsidized locally?
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I thought of LIM-YVR, BOG-YVR, but the 73M can't do it, and filling a 788 or A330 might be quite a stretch economics-wise. Even an A321LR Neo wouldn't do. These are rare routes for which the hypothetical Boeing "MoM" aircraft (ie: a 757 replacement) would be needed. Or the 767 I guess.
Then again, if Colombians and Peruvians are desperate to avoid the USA when travelling to Asia, they really don't have a lot of good options other than to use AC.
Then again, if Colombians and Peruvians are desperate to avoid the USA when travelling to Asia, they really don't have a lot of good options other than to use AC.
Maybe not so much re South Americans desperate to avoid the US having no other options than AC ("pssst" says AeroMexico).
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I was curious what that would look like from a routing perspective from Vancouver, so I google-mapped it up: https://goo.gl/maps/koHNfzExjVw
...obviously not a $$$ viable route, but an interesting intellectual exercise.
...obviously not a $$$ viable route, but an interesting intellectual exercise.
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Don't know when the service ended, but here's a blurb about AC's Moscow service in the late 60s:
Postcard from Moscow | Air Canada enRoute
Postcard from Moscow | Air Canada enRoute
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Don't know when the service ended, but here's a blurb about AC's Moscow service in the late 60s:
Postcard from Moscow Air Canada enRoute
Postcard from Moscow Air Canada enRoute
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It's just unfortunate that AC is cutting their investment into YYC. Every time I'm in the city I really enjoy it, it's the gateway to the Rockies, and the new airport expansion is beautiful. It would be interesting if AC made YYC a backup to YVR for flights to Asia. YYC is only ~1hr farther from cities in Asia than YVR, and it would relieve congestion in YVR, allowing AC to add new routes to Southeast Asia and/or South America out of YVR.
Its this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ttlenecks-bite
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NRT, ICN, and PVG. And MEX's altitude and temperature probably is going to be quite a limit to a widescale expansion.
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