Originally Posted by zahav (Post 8352356)

Cleaning while pax are still on board is bad customer service, I'm no snob and don't expect lots of perks when flying, but walking through the aisle while areas are being vacuumed or whatever is not good. Especially for "legacy" carriers who are supposed to be trying to elevate their experience and sell something different than their "low cost" competitors. I've heard United is a pretty bad airline for reputation, generally considered the worst of the big US carriers for sure. I feel like AC is trying to really shed its old reputation and wouldn't do something like clean while customers are deplaning. But you never know

Originally Posted by nname (Post 8355707)

AC is adding YUL-RDU next summer




Could still be winter-seasonal.

Originally Posted by zahav (Post 8356179)

I wonder if Air India might be taking over the BOM route? They are *Alliance as well, maybe that is why AC removed it? Would also free up an extra plane. Who knows though, ah this forum needs an airline executive to spill the tea!

Originally Posted by Alexcaban (Post 8356487)

AC and Air India don't have a JV, so very doubtful of that.

Originally Posted by zahav (Post 8357111)

Oh OK, I just thought both *Alliance so it might be the case. Very odd the AC is removing this route, I still feel like there's more to the story, it seems so out of left field and they are heavily promoting it as of a couple weeks ago

Originally Posted by SpongeG (Post 8351769)

WestJet's Swoop forced to cancel 24 U.S. flights as regulatory approval held up
'We are focused on doing what is right and are working directly with those affected travellers'
CBC News · Posted: Oct 19, 2018

WestJet's new discount carrier Swoop is apologizing to travellers for cancelling 24 U.S.-bound flights.

The airline says it had hoped to have all regulatory approvals in place to operate south of the border — but one of those has not yet been approved.

That means all Swoop flights to the United States have been postponed until Oct. 27.

Originally Posted by Cage (Post 8358808)

Swoop apologized to its customers for the inconvenience by saying

"Tag Team, back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
FAA's in the house, jump, jump, rejoice
Says there's a party over Hamilton, a party over Abbotsford
Wave your hands in the air, shake the derriere
These three words mean you're gettin' flyin:
Swoop, there it is! Hit me!"

Originally Posted by nname (Post 8362141)

This week's AC schedule update for S19 so far:

AC92/93 becomes YYZ-SCL-EZE, days 1357, dep YYZ 2140, arr YYZ 0500
AC94/95 cancelled

So AC92/93 essentially replaced AC46/47 (BOM) in the rotation with DXB.

AC818/819 YUL-DUB is now 333 instead of 7M8.
AC862/863 YVR-DUB now mainline 333

Originally Posted by zahav (Post 8362164)

Finally the mystery solved about DUB! Seemed like a good possibility but the speculation was driving us crazy. What about operational days, do those stay the same?

So if BOM is cancelled and so is AC94/95, does that free up another 789?

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone (Post 8362230)

So with these latest changes, there is a lot of spare Rouge 767s for next summer. Will be interesting to see what they do with them for next summer.

As they are now all based out east, YYZ/YUL are poised to get frequency increases on existing routes or possibly even new routes. Let's see what happens.

Originally Posted by nname (Post 8362174)

Well... sort of.

Net long-hual plane changes so far for S19:
YYZ: (-1) Mainline 767; (+2) Rouge 767
YUL: (+1.1) Mainline 330; (-0.3) Rouge 767 *assume ALG going mainline
YVR: (+1.6) Mainline 787; (+0.6) Mainline 330; (-3) Rouge 767

Total: (+1.6) Mainline 787; (+1.7) Mainline 330; (-1) Mainline 767; (-1.3) Rouge 767

Next summer AC will have 2x 787 coming, 4x 330... and by the end of summer, retire 5x mainline 767

** Note: YVR also have (+1.7) 7M8 to replace the Rouges; YUL/YYZ breakeven on 7M8 long-hual flights.

Originally Posted by zahav (Post 8362680)

What is the additional route from YYZ on a 789? If the EZE non-stop is gone and BOM is gone, where is that 787 going to?

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone (Post 8362230)

As they are now all based out east, YYZ/YUL are poised to get frequency increases on existing routes or possibly even new routes. Let's see what happens.

Originally Posted by nname (Post 8362800)

Daily VIE




Then what will they do in S20 then? Cancel a bunch of routes, or somehow find more second-hand A333s?

Right now if you add all those changes, it happens to be +1, which is exactly the net increase of fleet after the 767s are retired. Although right now the non fully-utilized planes are three different types scattered across three different bases...

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone (Post 8363012)

I was talking about the Rouge 767s, not mainline.

You were the one saying there was slack in the Rouge fleet. More so now with YVR-DUB and YUL-ALG de-rouged.

Originally Posted by Cage (Post 8343914)

My guesstimate on the 763: the 763s will fly YYZ-LGW and YVR-LGW daily. Additional European routes will be announced at later date, these will be multiple destinations served a few times per week each. YEG and YWG will lose their token summer seasonal flights. In both cases the losses will be attributed to guests choosing the 789 through YYC over the nonstop on the 763.