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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster
If AC were to defend YVR (which I highly doubt they care to do any time soon), they would immediately launch YVR-BOG 3-4x pW on the days WS launched GRU. It's a better hard product, I assume better O&D, and a better transit point to most of the major South American cities.
Looking at the geographic advantage BOG has it's honestly shocking and a testament to the incompetence at Avianca that they aren't the de facto hub to South America.
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As I posted in another forum, if AC is to use the same timing as YUL/YYZ flight with the plane stay at GRU from 9am to 9:30pm (and potentially feed into EZE), then the timing will be perfect to capture connecting traffic from Japan, Korea, and China - with plane leaving YVR at around 4pm, and arrive back at 10am +2 days. Much better connection-wise compared to WS's offering.
But... it's a waste of resource though. I'm sure AC have better route to fly to than leaving the plane at GRU for 12 hours. But if they are using resource from YYZ/YUL and redirect a few weekly flight to YVR from GRU in a W pattern, then why not
AC is going to free up some widebodies when more and more of the XLR arriving this winter. The South American expansion already happened this winter, so either they need to add more frequency, or need to find more places to fly those widebodies to for next year.
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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster
Wow, that came outta nowhere. Very welcome surprise. Every ANA flight I've taken has been a treat so always nice to have some more AC competition from Star Alliance partners.
I just tried to do a dummy booking and it's not loaded yet so I wonder plane they will be sending. I'd assume another 788 or 789.
Pretty shocked they're not sending a frequency to YYZ though, very odd that Toronto remains unserved by any Japanese carrier while Vancouver is 3x daily.
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Aeroroute most likely get the info from this press release from ANA that list out the entire plan for the year:
https://www.anahd.co.jp/group/en/pr/202601/20260120.html
As you can see, it's pretty conservative as usual... Seems like NRT-YVR is operates using the resource from NQ subsidiary that was recently shut down.
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