Canadian Airport Thread II

[samuelx88]

I had the opportunity to try TS YQB-LGW and CDG-YQB last week, both on their A321LR.

YQB-LGW had an impressively high load factor for a penultimate seasonal weekly flight with only 8 seats left. The majority were British as French was only spoken by about 40% of passengers met. Of those British passengers, over half were not of british origin so either connecting to India or Asia or immigrants living in London. Throughout the season, round trip prices were always all over 950$CAD so not as discounted as TS YQB-CDG. I hope a second weekly flight will be coming next summer for its fourth season. I don't think this flight was subsidised for the past two years.

As for my TS CDG-YQB flight on Monday this week, only about 4 seats were left and a slight majority were French with about half probably connecting from Africa. About 40% were Canadian and the majority of those looking like retired travellers. This flight is 4x weekly in the summer, 3x weekly in the winter. AF also operates this route thrice weekly with their highest density 777-300 and probably gets most of business travellers.