Australia's domestic market is 79 million seats/year.

What is ours then?

I found this on the Stats Can website; almost 150 million passengers within Canada for 2017.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=2310025301

65.6 million seats in 2018.

Not bad, considering our two largest cities are only 500 km apart, and the fact that Quebecers don't fly to the rest of the country as much.

https://www.anna.aero/2018/12/19/dom...astest-growth/

For Australians to go anywhere domestically, they need to fly. The interstate highway network in Australia is not as developed as the inter/intra-provincial network in Canada. Driving between Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, London, Windsor, etc is very straightforward. Driving between Melbourne and Sydney, on the other hand, didn't even include a completed divided highway up until a year or two ago.

It’s crazy that you can take one of the most successful countries and evonomies on the planet and make it sound all bad.

We are making a comparison to Australia.

Australia is more of a resource based economy than we are.

On the R&D front we are good at funding university R&D. Where we fall behind it turning that into industrial innovation. Getting real products into real markets out of our R&D.

The worst possible university to work with on commercializing R&D is the UofT. Ironically it is one of the universities that gets the most funding. Some of the ones in the west are better.

I depends on how badly you play it. It could very well be borderline lethal. For example, I am banned from playing the piano at my aunts house.

AF increasing YYZ to 10x weekly next summer.

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...as-of-28dec18/

How shocking!! Mr. Ben Smith lives in Toronto.

Shaping up to be a good year for the international routes out of YYZ. LH to MUC upguaged, KLM has added an additional 2 weekly flights (now 9x weekly) for winter, BA is adding one additional LGW flight, LOT is adding 2 additional flights, Air Italy arrives, PAL goea daily on the A350, Austrian swaps for AC, adding 40% capacity on the route, and Rouge adds frequencies to destinations like ATH and TXL.

Predictably, as AC slows their expansion slightly and new routes become fewer, existing international services upguage to meet demand. I'm looking for LH and BA to expand next, FRA is generally absolutely jammed, and BA has seemingly hit their recent all time low in the wake of the loss of the WS codeshare, so there is nowhere to go but up.

What remains to be seen is how Jet Airways fares, they still transport a ton of pax to India, which remains an underserved market according to Anna Aero, and how Asia grows, with strong talk of a Japanese carrier finally announcing service.

Happy New Year to all!

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https://www.oag.com/megahubs-international-index-2018

Posted this back in September......I even spoon fed you, remember ? ;)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6744

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6770

What is LH YYZ-MUC being upgauged to?

Both YYZ/YUL-MUC going A359

Nice! Thank you.

Was told over the weekend that Porter and West Jet have a reciprocal agreement. Porter staff can hop on West Jet flights now.

I suspect it will finally be JAL to NRT.

I rounded 79 million up to 80 million. Being a nation with 50% more people (potential customers) Canada would need roughly 120 million seats/year to equal them..

Isn't the only I posted for 2018 vs 2017 for the one you posted? :koko:

We don't have to equal anyone. This isn't a linear equation. If that were the case, China and India would be # 1 and #2.

All the countries below Canada in that top 15 list are more populous than Canada, btw.

So your notion of Canada being laggard among developed countries is somewhat flawed.