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Originally Posted by thenoflyzone
And NRT gained 4x? All with one 787? That can't be right. What else besides LGW was cut on the 787?
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Should be doable. 7 weekly cut with 6 weekly added. Maybe the YYC-YYZ domestic turn gets reduced or chopped to compensate.
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Originally Posted by Ozabald
Winnipeg had weekly Saturday summer service to LGW on WestJet's ill-fated 767s in 2018/19.
Newfoundland has historically had air links with Europe; starting with Pan Am's flying boats which landed in Botwood. AC operated YQX-LHR for many years before the flight was moved to YYT in the late 1980's. For a period, the LHR flight was YHZ-YYT-LHR (AC 860) and LHR-YYT-YHZ (AC 861). There were no passengers carried only between the YHZ/YYT leg. Then, AC decided to open the YHZ/YYT leg to passengers. This resulted in YHZ originating LHR bound passengers having to deplane in YYT and for the WB flight, all passengers cleared customs in YYT. There's video of Paul McCartney schlepping through YYT in March 2006 after clearing customs when he was flying to PEI via YHZ with his ex-wife Heather Mills to protest the East Coast seal hunt.
Then, YHZ/YYT were split into two separate LHR flights with the YYT-LHR flight eventually reducing to summer seasonal operated on an A319 until it was suspended due to the pandemic. Flew YYT-LHR in July 2013 and the flight was ~ 50-60% full.
It will be interesting to see what West Jet has planned. They did make YYT a mini transatlantic hub in 2014. Round two perhaps?
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YWG wasn't the airport I was referring to though. It's an airport that had service to LHR and/or LGW continuously since the early 70s and 1986 on AC.
For YHZ-Europe, it'll be interesting to see if YOW-YHZ returns seasonally on WS as a feeder for the 2 daily Europe flights.
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