Air Canada To Launch Year-Round Montreal-Toulouse Service
Aug 28, 2019, 3:55 pm
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YUL-BOD was supposed to be mainline as well on 7M8, although currently suspended due to the issues with that type.
I wonder how much of the traffic to some of these places is Canadians going to France vs those living in France coming to Canada or North America. For instance, there's no service from TLS to elsewhere in North America, so perhaps AC expects to sell a fair number of tickets for things like TLS-YUL-NYC. YUL isn't a great TB hub relative to YYZ, but it may be nicer to connect in YUL than CDG, FRA, etc if going to NYC, Chicago, etc.
Same thing domestically if the French want to go to YVR, or come to YYC to see the Rockies, etc.
I wonder how much of the traffic to some of these places is Canadians going to France vs those living in France coming to Canada or North America. For instance, there's no service from TLS to elsewhere in North America, so perhaps AC expects to sell a fair number of tickets for things like TLS-YUL-NYC. YUL isn't a great TB hub relative to YYZ, but it may be nicer to connect in YUL than CDG, FRA, etc if going to NYC, Chicago, etc.
Same thing domestically if the French want to go to YVR, or come to YYC to see the Rockies, etc.
Aug 28, 2019, 5:58 pm
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"Just call it the “Airbus Express.”
"Once the service begins June 4, Air Canada says it will be the only carrier offering year-round nonstop service between North America and Toulouse. Canadian budget carrier Air Transat — which Air Canada is in the midst of acquiring — offers seasonal service, also from Montreal."
"Air Canada’s service on the Montreal-Toulouse route – fittingly to be operated with Airbus A330-300 wide-body jets – will connect Toulouse to a region that’s newly important to Airbus."
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https://thepointsguy.com/news/airbus...a-to-toulouse/
Aug 28, 2019, 7:23 pm
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Aug 28, 2019, 8:32 pm
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Anyone done the Airbus factory tour there? Is it any good compared to the Boeing one in Everett? I always wanted to go, but it's a bit of a trek from CDG.
Aug 28, 2019, 8:36 pm
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If you feel like organizing an AC FT super-mini-TLS-Do, I'm in ^
Aug 29, 2019, 6:42 am
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This is good news from AC as it opens up even more OJ options within France.
Aug 29, 2019, 10:49 am
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Agree. I am sure AC has much more data than I have and made a more educated guess than me, but I would be really surprised if there is indeed enough business traffic. Both AC 880 and AC 884 uses 28J 773 currently and it has been a while since 40/42J 773 was deployed on AC880 regularly. To me this suggests France is a leisure focused market than business focused.
Aug 29, 2019, 12:34 pm
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I believe @canadiancow and @Adam Smith may have done it as part of the Super Mego Do a couple of years ago.
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If you feel like organizing an AC FT super-mini-TLS-Do, I'm in ^
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If you feel like organizing an AC FT super-mini-TLS-Do, I'm in ^
I might be up for a mini-do involving a tour of the TLS plant, if it happened.
I think that "much greater" is debatable. The 763 has much greater capacity than the 7M8 (67% more seats, roughly), but they also cut the frequency from 4/week to 3/week, so it's about a 25% capacity increase on the route.
Aug 29, 2019, 2:02 pm
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I believe @canadiancow and @Adam Smith may have done it as part of the Super Mego Do a couple of years ago.
I forget whether it was SMD6 or SMD7 that I did (I think 7; cow, @traacs + 1 and Mrs. Smith were all there too), but we visited the Airbus plant at XFW on that trip. I think a previous SMD may have hit the Toulouse factory.
I might be up for a mini-do involving a tour of the TLS plant, if it happened.
I might be up for a mini-do involving a tour of the TLS plant, if it happened.
SMD6 was TLS.
I did both of them.
In all honesty, once you've seen one, you've seen them all. I couldn't even tell you the difference between the two factories. We saw airplanes. Photos were not permitted. The end.