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Originally Posted by fanofYOW
Honestly, selling part of YHU is most probably what is going to happen. There is also nothing stopping them from adjusting their network based on what's working and what's not, they are building currently after all.
Their plan is to base 35-25-25-15 frames in YYZ-YOW-YVR-YHU/YUL. They still have not exercised their purchase rights for the remaining 25 frames. Could they just forgo it? Or maybe convert those rights to the smaller E190-E2 on thinner routes? I get why they are going after YYZ due to the loyal client base, but 35? Head-to-head with all the other carriers there isn't something I'd go in with confidence. Maybe it should have been the other way around, 25 in YYZ and 35 in YOW. I may be bias but there is zero competition in YOW, no one hubs here except them. Like the CEO said "flights can come and go, air travel is not going to be stimulated, it will only be viable from grabbing share" so they are more than open to adjusting things as time goes on.
Maybe they are going into YOW cautiously because being underserved for so long creates unclear data, but I think YOW will work better for them. In YHZ, the population is so low and they are already overreaching their service options for a city of that size. YVR makes sense because that base can do all the YOW, YYZ, YUL flying.
I am happy to say that I have plans to take 3 trips in 2025 and happy to support PD all 3 times. Gotta help keep them in business somehow, or else YOW will go back to the AC chokehold with barely any service because having us drive to YUL is their wet dream.
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I think turning YOW into a hub would be very smart. People want an option to YYZ. There are two flights a day now between YQM/YOW on Porter. If YOW developed into a real transit point for transcontinental Canadian service, and regional transborder service on Porter, I could see it becoming popular, possibly justifying a third flight from YQM (and, or course, increased frequency from other Atlantic Canadian airports).
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