I wonder what's the likelihood of AC starting up YVR-SIN.

Ya same.

Yield or did the loads not recover as overall traffic recovers?

O and D isn't huge but Vancouver has the whole country to funnel into a flight to Singapore.
Not sure about yield tho.

I find it baffling that SIN was axed, but the yields must not have been hitting. SIA definitely has the right plane for the route.

I don't doubt they'll fill the planes, I do question the yields they are going to be hitting if they're scooping a lot of connecting traffic though.

I just don’t see BA at YOW.

It’s going to be AC on YOW-LHR with the A321XLR most likely.

But why would Air Canada waste an LHR slot on such a small plane?

I mean, they wasted one on YYT-LHR with an even smaller plane for years.

YHM numbers are out. 645,789

https://twitter.com/flyyhm/status/16...s_6YHIiAYCRZfg

They did fly a 767 daily nonstop for decades in the 90s and 2000s up until covid hit plus ×5 a week to FRA. You mean to tell me a city of 1 million and half can't do 1 daily ?:shrug:

I wonder if the route would have succeed if the scheduling was better. It seemed like the route was poorly timed on both ends for connecting pax.

Good point

They're 'wasting' one on a max 8 from YHZ

Looks like Air Canada plans to resume Calgary YYC- Honolulu HNL, Hawaii route 2-3x weekly on the Boeing 737Max 8.

AIR CANADA TO RESUME CALGARY – HONOLULU SERVICE IN NW23
Air Canada in Northern winter 2023/24 season intends to resume Calgary – Honolulu route, last served until April 2022. The seasonal route would see the airline offers 2 weekly flights from 29OCT23, increasing to 3 from 20DEC23.

Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft operates this route.

AC529 YYC1820 – 2250HNL 7M8 137
AC528 HNL2350 – 0923+1YYC 7M8 137

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230420-achnl

Yes, Calgary YYC has good number of Europe International flights✈️✅.

And YYC Airport authority has their focus on getting Asia flights again since end of 2019: With WestJet adding YYC to Tokyo Japan 3x weekly (Spring/Summer seasonal) flights from this upcoming Sunday April 30 2023 on WS Boeing 787-9, it will be 1st flight to Asia from YYC since (October 2019).

As for a recession *if* there was one, WestJet would just cut back on some Europe/International flying from its main hub at YYC.

I think SQ's plane is too premium-heavy for the Canadian market. If AC operates the route, they would be using the 789 with similar fuel burn but configured to carry 45 more passengers.

Maybe it would do better if SQ intend for the route to stay for the long term. Better time, better connection is one. Or at the very least, update their website to put it on their global destination map...

WS is leasing some of its LGW slots to Eastern Airways this summer.

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...CL-WEBSITE.jpg

This flight is a great way to get to Ottawa from Europe. No hassles in Halifax at customs, not crowded and a direct flight after a short wait to Ottawa. When I flew last summer both AC planes were full. The larger the airport, and the more airports the more delays and problems you have.

YOW is similar to Berlin, Canberra and Wellington. Capital cities which have minimal international traffic at their airports (in Berlin's case, non-EU traffic) and are geographically close to their country's hub airport(s).

After having YOW-London service on AC since 1986, and trying to land CDG for years, it's ironic that this summer YOW will have CDG but not LHR or LGW.

It would be surprising for YOW-LHR to not eventually return...along with the former Rouge 767 routes. XLR on AC is the most likely outcome, even though AC had the 330 loaded for YOW-LHR in summer 2020 before all hell broke loose. It's too bad the XLR seems to be about a year behind schedule.