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Old Posted Aug 13, 2015, 6:51 PM
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Originally Posted by MountainView View Post
During weekdays there are three coach buses from Ottawa to YUL. Two operated by Air France and one operated by KLM. So anywhere from 10-25% of the YUL-CDG/AMS flights could be filled with people who bused from Ottawa. This doesn't even count people who booked their ticket YUL-XXX and drive or train there. The coach buses are for people who book on AF/KLM website.

If anyone is interested the buses have 'flight numbers' too. AF311, AF313, and KL300.
Almost certainly the low end of that. There are 3 AF flights a day, hence the 3 buses... there is also one KLM flight which departs within a 1/2 hour of one of the AF flights, so they probably double up on a bus.

AF runs 2x772 and 1x343, KLM runs 1x300 for a total of 1133 seats per day. 10% of that is 113/3 or 38 people per bus. I'm not sure what one bus would hold (50-60 maybe?)... but I have a hard time picturing it stuffed to the max.

Has anybody been on one and could comment on the bus "load factor" ???