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Originally Posted by thenoflyzone
You need to get your facts straight.
The only reason for an airline to offer a daytripper is for the passenger experience. There is nothing terrible about it. Yes it reduces the options for connections, but daytrippers are mostly about O&D, and for that crowd, it's an awesome option to have. The reason it's the only benefit for an airline is because everything else about a daytripper is shitty. It's shitty in terms of airline economics, as the plane arrives too late in LHR for a quick turnaround back to Canada, and therefore needs to spend the night at LHR and departs the following day. That adds significant costs to operating a daytripper, especially at an airport like LHR.
Not saying this is the ideal flight for AC from YOW to LHR. It probably isn't, since usually a daytripper flight is operated on top of one or several red-eye flights from a hub, but nonetheless, the point remains, that this won't be a shitty passenger experience.
Daytrippers usually come at a premium compared to redeyes (timings are more favorable for the O&D crowd, and it helps with jet lag), so don't know why AC isn't utilizing this daytripper flight from YYZ, where it belongs, but that's another debate entirely.
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If that were the case there would be lots of day flights to meet passenger demand. In reality of the hundreds of transatlantic flights, maybe a dozen are day flights.
Jet lag is much worse. You’re waking up in Ottawa at your normal time (unless you are a shift worker), spending your entire Ottawa day on a flight, and arriving in the evening with an internal clock that thinks it is 4:00 pm.
A more likely explanation is that Air Canada has an evening slot (probably a holdover from some past 5th freedom) that they don’t want to give up.
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