Canadian Airport Thread II

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Originally Posted by YOWetal

Also what was YYZ? It might have lost market share for example to YOW.

I couldn't find YYZ May pax stats but when we get the YYZ Q2 results I will check.

Originally Posted by thenoflyzone

As YOWetal said, StatsCan is specific about Canadian residents. Airport authorities, on the other hand, don't make that distinction, and group all transborder passengers, residents and non-residents.

Originally Posted by Dominion301

Yeah 6th freedom would account for some of the differences.

YOW and YYC I fully expect will turn negative in June.

Thanks, 6th freedom traffic from the US helps explain the discrepancy.

But if I'm not mistaken Air Canada is the main Canadian airline trying to connect US travellers through Canada. So shouldn't the AC hubs have outperformed the non AC hubs in transborder traffic? I see the opposite...YVR and YUL were hit harder than YYC and YOW.

That said YEG transborder stats aligns with the StatsCan numbers.