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Originally Posted by trofirhen
When Turkish applied for YVR, the requested 5x weekly and were granted three. OK. Seattle petitioned for TK following the example in Vancouver, and got them the following year.
Now Seattle has 7x weekly (daily, 7/7, that is) and YVR still has three. A question: will TK passengers who need a flight on a day not served out of Vancouver, bleed off to Seattle? Why is Transport Canada so seemingly tight about this, and other examples like it (Munich springs to mind, not to mention QR and EK. Yes, Seattle has a bigger metro, at 4.1m compared to our 2.6+m, and importantly, Seattle has a much larger economy with more business traffic. /// But I still would love to know how much traffic Seattle gains at the benefit of our Canadian regulations, which are often tight; bilateral aviation rules being no exception, and how much YVR loses because of them. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I would say the number is non-zero, but very much on the lower end.
My thought process being that the price of the non-stop is priced at a 'x' value. This is often higher than the multitude of connecting options on other carriers.
For the travelers that are not price-sensitive, and/or must fly a non-stop they'll only have the option to fly on the 3x flights and pay as such in the fare, and have to work-around that time limitation.
For the travelers that are price sensitive, the non-stop (YVR-IST) would be taken if price(non-stop)<price(connection). As they're price-sensitive, they'll have the option to take a connection on any of the competing airlines. The possibilities here are many with a one-stopper on a multitude of airlines. This is important because the SEA-IST TK flight would now be competing with the rest of the one-stop flights from other airlines. To the price-sensitive flyer, a connection in SEA onto TK would be no different than a connection (example: YYZ on AC or FRA on LH etc).
So essentially, the TK SEA-IST flight increases competition but it isn't exactly in direct competition with the YVR-IST flight persay. It is more akin to competing on any of the YVR-*Connecting Hub*-IST flights.
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