Jazz only makes it "work" because AC buys the capacity and uses it to feed longerer haul flights. Without that, the only other way a new shorthaul turboprop carrier has a hope in hell is to be like Porter and start out with a sweetheart deal with a certain airport.

Tremblant to Charlevoix? For what? To shuttle around casino employees? Lol. Montreal-Sherbrooke? A bit ridiculous.

Air Canada originally had YYC-YWG suspended until after Labour day, but they now plan to resume the route August 1.

I surprised YYC-FRA survived another schedule change, but I'm still doubtful it will be resuming in August.

The airport Porter uses certainly does protect them from much competition. It also limits their growth.

I'd say that Treq could make a go of it if it used a model like Provincial Airways or Perimeter Aviation. Smaller planes = less onerous regulations. You'd probably have enough traffic to fill a 19-seater on government contracts alone. They might even get some corporate self-connects via Montreal. There's plenty of Dash8-100s and 1900s available. The Q400 is the stuff of dreams and burnt investor cash though.

I doubt the established competition is lining up to fight over crumbs, especially since they just got out of that business.

And just one week later all planned long haul resumptions in August have been cancelled other than YVR-PVG (with a stop in ICN).

Speaking of YUL-LIS, I hear TAP is going ahead with the launch of YUL on July 30. Bookings are strong apparently.

Also, Swiss resumed ZRH-YUL this past Tuesday, ans so did TK on Wednesday. Good to see more European carriers resume/launch service.

Pascan are expanding in Eastern Quebec with the addition of YBC and YGP, meaning those airports will continue to have airline service. They will also start flying to YUL in addition to YHU.

As well:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...819439259.html

That's great news. They are better positioned to serve most of these markets.

Some interesting comments on load factors thus far for Transat's first 9 days of operations commencing July 23.

https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...?f=3&t=1447493

With there business model you would expect for the first week that the aircraft go out near full and come back empty. So those numbers are not bad.

One of Pascan's owners this the Treq co-op is a thing for dreamers:

He's right about that. You can‘t start up an airline in this day and age in a matter of weeks.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...-canada-pascan

AC S21 Long-Haul route number changes:

I see they leave very few room for expansions... Seems like they does leave room for 2 additional LHR flights, from either YVR, YUL, or new Canadian city? AC830 and AC888 are still open for new destination (or additional Canadian cites to CPH, BRU, VIE, or FCO)

YVR-CDG seems out of place though...

This was to be LH's inaugural summer at YOW after AC handed off to them. It never started due to COVID. I wonder if AC might ever return to YOW-FRA if LH doesn't.

Here's a rough guide to AC's flight number meanings:

001-099 - Usually TPAC, or flights in/out of Asia. (HND, PVG, TLV)
1XX - Mainline transcontinental in/out of YYZ (YEG, YYC, YVR)
2XX - Mainline out of YVR (YYC, YEG, YWG), also includes YYZ-YWG rotations
3XX - Mainline transcontinental in/out of YUL (YEG, YYC, YWG, YVR)
4XX - Rapidair flights (YYZ-YUL/YOW) trips
5XX - Mainline West coast transborder (YVR-SFO, YYC-LAX) etc...
6XX - Any Mainline flight to or from maritimes (YYZ-YYT, YHZ-YUL)
7XX - Mainline East coast transborder (YYZ-LGA, SFO-YUL)
8XX - Mainline Trans Atlantic flights (YYZ-LHR, YVR-CDG)
9XX - Any Mainline flight to southern vacation destinations
1XXX - Usually extra Mainline flights they haven’t come up with a number for yet (YYZ-YXE, DEN)
2XXX - Extra sections, last two digits are same as last two digits as originally cancelled flights

I could see them using some 1XXX flight numbers for more Europe destinations.

Those 321LRs are looking more genius everyday....

It's a more fuel-efficient 757-like plane with commonality to other Airbus A320 models. All the benefit and none of the pain of taking on a new model type.

Definitely Airbus has grabbed the niche that Boeing was hoping to exploit with their New Midsized Airplane. Once again, Boeing is left in the dust.

Any airline that goes hopping across the Atlantic from Western Europe to the East Coast of North America or vice-versa aiming for secondary destinations now has the plane to do it.

I could see it fit in AC's fleet - either YYZ/YUL to secondary European destinations or YHZ/YYT to primary European centres.

Might not need... AC will need to trim some routes, as there are not enough plane to run all the service currently scheduled. For instance, the current schedule will require about 11-13 787-8 (which AC only have 8 of them):

YYZ - YVR, BOG, SFO (2), LAX (2), BRU
YUL - TLV, BOG, BRU
YVR - YYZ, BNE, KIX, EWR, ZRH
YYC - NRT
YOW - LHR

3xx are also YOW transcons and YYZ-YMM if it ever returns. I wonder whether Rouge will still use 15xx-19xx? They probably don’t need more than three hundreds series nowadays - 1 each for domestic, transborder and Caribbean. Actually, if KEF returns, that would be the one transatlantic route that would stay Rouge on a 320...or 319 if a few of those stick around.

Would not be surprised to see most 788 domestic, transborder and Atlantic get the 333. Also would not be surprised if some routes operate less-than-daily, thereby fitting more routes into the 8 frames.

At the rate (and direction) we’re going, summer 2021 will only be marginally better than summer 2020.

Flair will be taking up some of the slack where Air Canada has left off this Summer with flights between Saskatchewan and Vancouver & Toronto four times a week starting in August.

https://i.imgur.com/7ZwvZVw.png

https://globalnews.ca/news/7210239/f...-saskatchewan/

Flair are adding YMM, YXS and YYJ too apparently. They’re staying West it appears and abandoning their planned Eastern Canada expansion.