Canadian Airport Thread II

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Originally Posted by Zmonkey

It does affect you, Porter now has more room to increase prices for Western Canada flights, especially those to Calgary. It also allows them to increase prices to Vancouver as they know Lynx will never be there.

Canadians pay the highest airline fees per km in the rich world. Ottawa tends to be on the higher end to boot with its limited service. That will just continue.

YVR - YYZ represents 25% of Canadas population, with fairly high fares. They can't ignore that.
Canada is geographically spread, but population is concentrated. the Top 10 cities in Canada (and there metros) represent about 65% of the population. In the USA its about 30%. Based on this they all need to start serving the same cities since that's where everyone lives and travels to. You can't fill a Thunder Bay to Regina flight very often.

You are in Ottawa, look at Porter, doing the same type of market expansion as Lynx did just with a eastern Canada perspective compared to a Western Canada one. If you think Lynx was poorly executed, do you equally believe Porter will fail as there strategy of route expansion is fairly similar - serve the most in demand routes first.

There's an interesting operational analysis post on airliners.net that might answer some of those questions:

Friday Feb 16th, heading into a long weekend for most folks in Canada, was not only a bad day at 777 Partners, but also a messy day operationally for Flair....

....(Flair) OTP was 44.1%, with 9% of sectors incurring delays greater than 5 hours, including a YYZ-YWG r/t that ran 9 hrs late. If you were on one of Flair's 38 delayed flights yesterday, the average delay was 2hrs 12 mins.

There were at least a couple of OTP shenanigans where Flair recovery flights with new flight numbers that arrived hours after the original sched time were listed as arriving "on-time". Tsk Tsk.

Flair generated 1,025,219 asm's per tail on the day.
Lynx managed 963,312 asms with a near equal asl of 1,434 miles, utilization of 11hrs 11 mins and OTP of 59.4%
Porter's chronically under utilized fleet tapped out at just 454,030 asm's, an asl of 1,216, utilization of 7hrs 42 mins and OTP of 59.8%. That's easily the highest daily utilization we've seen for Porter so far in 2024. If I were a betting man, I'd bet that utilization dropped back to about 7hrs 10 mins today, (Saturday)....

https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...=200#p24165519