Originally Posted by zahav
Thanks for the background, I of course knew there must be a valid reason as AC is very experienced in the Florida market, so knows where best to allocate capacity to meet demand. I was more expressing my surprise, as a Westcoaster with almost no knowledge of Florida or it's travel demographics. It just stood out to me that AC clearly assigns more capacity and importance to FLL than Miami, even though Miami is the bigger city, the international hub, etc. Without knowing the background, on the surface it would be like YYZ and YUL flying to SNA with more capacity than LAX, it's unthinkable. But the explanations you gave make sense, and now FLL is way more on my radar that before, when I never even thought about it.
Looks like AC has made some transborder changes for the winter season. From YVR, 3/4 of the flights to SFO will be on Jazz CRAs, and 1/4 is a 737. I don't remember what AC had last season, or if there even is a historic norm, but I think this is more Jazz than usual. Of course they have a JV with United, who are 3x daily mainline, so probably roughly equal capacity as usual. But with LAX, 1/4 flights will be Jazz CRA, and 3/4 on mainline (737 and 321 it looks like). And again, UA operates too, 1x daily mainline (I think they used to go Express in winter, so seems like UA is focusing on mainline, and AC is utilizing Jazz more). SMF still daily CRA, and SAN 2x daily CRA, I believe same as usual. But then AC is also operating 1x daily CRA to Las Vegas, I don't think that's ever happened?? They will also have 1x daily mainline 321 now, rather than 737. And then 2x daily CRA to DEN, 1x daily mainline to SNA, PSP, PHX, IAH, ORD, and EWR, and 6x weekly to MIA. So overall very similar to last year I believe, just the emergence of Jazz CRAs on routes like LAX and LAS where they weren't before. I supposed to free up 737s for all the sun flying increases they announced last week?
I am not familiar with last winter at YUL, but looks like LAX is just 1x daily 787, and then LAS is 1x daily A330. I think Vegas has always been Rouge? And not sure LAX frequency or equipment in normal winters, but these two will be 1x daily but widebody. SFO, DEN and IAH are each 1x daily mainline, and then MSP, ORD, DFW, EWR, LGA, BOS, IAD, DCA, ATL are all AC Express, various frequencies for each and I think mostly CRA and E175. Plus then all of the Florida stuff. Not sure how this compares to 2022, I can't even remember YVR last year let alone YUL lol. The AC sections in the YUL wikipedia seem to need several updates just on ones I can see. It's showing BOS, DFW, and ORD as year round mainline, but those all look to be Express only in winter. MIA shows as year round mainline, but it's Rouge. DTW and PHL are seasonal only, but showing as year round currently in the article. Then with Rouge, MSY is showing as Rouge seasonal, but it should be just Express seasonal. And FLL is seasonal Rouge, currently showing year round.
I get nervous updating these lists myself in Wiki, I am not great with the code and syntax with tables, and have accidentally screwed up the entire table on Wiki, and then others had to come and fix it. I don't want to take any chances, especially on someone else's airport lol
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