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Originally Posted by Zmonkey
Obvious to answer to that is China, isn't it?
They had so many flights and connecting passengers into China pre Covid, until that comes back (if ever) they are missing a big part of there operations to get them back to pre covid numbers.
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The thing I love about YVR is the breakdown of their passenger stats by region served. Wish other airports did the same. What it allows us to see is that it's not just Asia Pac that is still below 2019 numbers, but Europe and Transborder as well.
Take August 2023. Which is the last month with the breakdown numbers available, and also the busiest month at YVR since August 2019. (2.5 million pax in August 2023 vs. 2.68 million pax in August 2019) So almost there. Problem is, only domestic numbers and Mexico numbers were above August 2019 numbers.
Transborder was still down by ~25,000 in the month vs August 2019
Asia Pac was down ~140,000
Europe was down ~63,000
So yes. China is a big part of it, but Europe+US was down almost 100k as well in the month. That's not an insignificant number.
https://www.yvr.ca/-/media/yvr/docum...passengers.pdf
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Originally Posted by kattiff
I thought the term hub and focus was just where an airline puts their crews, their maintenance, their most head starts of the day, the most connection points, certain long hauls or long distances. Just whatever they deem it’s important to their operation
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Not really. At least not for that first part.
AC has a pilot base in YWG, and it's not a hub. Until a couple of years ago, AC had a hub in YYC, and yet had no pilot base there.
Unfortunately. the definition of airline hub is pretty vague. Same, or even worse, for focus city.
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