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Originally Posted by casper
PD needs to start looking more closely at the west coast. There is significant opportunity for them to connect Vancouver Island with their growing list of flights out of YVR. That would be an ideal use for Q400 if then send one of them this way. It would augment their direct non-stop from Toronto to Victoria. But I don't even think that is on their radar. They are far to focused on Ontario and Montreal.
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I think Porter is trying to focus on connecting the west to the east, and not the east to the west.
East --> West is endpoint passengers.
West --> East is O&D combined with connection pax.
Think of something like, YVR to YQM/YYG/EWR/BOS... there are none or limited daily flights to those destinations - so Porter will try and capture that traffic via YOW (potentially YYZ/YUL in the future). They can also sell O&D on YVR-YOW. Same can be said with YEG/YYC for connection traffic. Albeit, WestJet does have a large market for Alberta-Eastern Canada / Maritimes flights.
Last August, my redeye YVR-YOW actually had connecting pax on to EWR which I was shocked AC actually sold something via YOW.
I'm not sure a YYJ-YOW flight would be in the cards for Summer 2024, but that would help the Island connect to eastern seaboard destinations that Porter flies to.
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