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Originally Posted by nname
YVR-CDG/MEL/TPE/ZRH and the second daily LHR.
Both MEL and TPE are planned to restart "as soon as equipment are available" since early 2023 as per various news sources, but seems like AC have higher priority.
But base on the current plane assignment, it would be harder to build a new route out of YVR though. All 220 and 788 are at YYZ and YUL base, meaning the smallest medium-haul plane at YVR is the 7M8, and the long haul is 789.
Need to watch YYZ-KIX and YUL-ICN. Both are last-minute addition this summer, where AC have extra capacity available (from cutting low-performing routes and frequency), but not enough lead time to start a new destination. Both routes are still not available for S25 yet.
Remember, AC was one aircraft short this summer after the initial schedule release. But then they get "lucky" by not able to operate to TLV, which save them exactly 1 aircraft.
And as of this update, the highest route number for European route is 934. I guess we should begin to see all of the 900s series Mexican route being kick to a new number?
Now I really need to update my script to handle the new AC website, since the old one is no longer working...
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TPE is probably in the works I'm assuming. Seemed to do well pre covid right? And it's not as long as MEL so it's certainly more viable. There are already two airlines on TPE but it seemed to not be a detriment to AC pre covid no? Now that UA started SFO-MNL, maybe AC is eyeing that too.
With regard to the other posts made on here, any airline makes decisions based on financial metrics, not emotions or 'ignoring' the west. If they were ignoring the west, I mean would we see YVR-BKK/DXB/SIN? Even WS at YYC is mostly scraping the bottom of the barrel with their Euro flights. If YVR (or any other city) can really sustain so many extra Euro flights on AC to the point that AC is supposedly neglecting YVR, then others are free to fill in the gaps or start their own airline. And AF/WK etc are certainly increasing at YVR, so I don't really see the issue.
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