Atlantic Canada airport thread

[stephan.richard]

It would be nice to have new routes out of the province of New Brunswick but it all comes down to economics. We used to have twice daily service from Moncton to Newark with United /Continental. When we had that route in the area although the flights were filled at 85-90% the flight was still losing money on the route.
Airlines have extensive statistics when doing their route planning and analysis. The main factor they look when determining a new toute is how many passengers will call destination XYZ as their final destination. For an example if an passenger books a let’s say Moncton to Myrtle Beach flight at then moment you would pay 1200.00 round trip and that revenue gets divided on the various segments you fly so the YQM to YYZ flight gets a portion, then YYZ to EWR gets another one and the EWR to MYR gets the rest and so on. So with that being said here in the province without massive subsidies in the tune of tens of million of dollars the big 3 or even big four US carriers do not even have the three New Brunswick Airports on their B or C list as far as launching new routes.
When it come to European route YQM had some in the past with Canada 3000, Corsair, and Condor. As Isaid in the previous paragraph if the routes would have been well supported we would probably still have them.
Now the thing that is challenging for many airlines at the moment is a human resource as well as aircraft shortage that is preventing many airlines to expand.
To summarize it would take tens of millions to get a new route to be developed and at the moment we are not in the aim in the province from the big 3 in Canada or the United States for transborder and transatlantic flights.
Personally I would welcome a flight to the United States from the province. That would help me not to drive down to Halifax, Bangor and Portland to fly to Myrtle Beach.