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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
He thinks anything less than multiple widebodies at YOW is some conspiracy, rather than businesses making business decisions.
AF takes away a lot of the passengers who would connect in Europe. People here cheer that on. Then are surprised that other carriers don't want to jump in with their own widebodies. Why would anybody else be excited to compete against AF in a market of 1.5M, to lose money.....
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You can ask Etihad that question before they start YYC or is YOW the only airport in Canada that can’t support multiple carriers? YOW is a larger city than YYC and growing at a rate faster than YYC at a 2% more growth rate YoY. Back to LHR, AC was operating a hub with connections, I’m not questioning the service from 10 years ago, I’m questioning a daily wide body in the winter today with WS in the picture. But by all means continue to justify downgrading to XLR when J and PY on a 788 were doing well. YOW is in a unique position where a global airport is just down the road and until solid data is available to say not many leak to YUL, I will continue with my “conspiracies”, thanks. I am more than happy to admit I am wrong, but show me the data. Show me YOW if isolated from other major airports cannot sustain multiple foreign carriers. It’s difficult, because service levels compared to other airports suck and new services are risks rather than confidence.
Reminder: 57% of the total Paris O&D was leaking to YUL before AF and I heard these exact same words from people before they began the service. “How will they make money; they’re gonna go bankrupt; YOW can’t sustain this; what are they thinking blah blah blah blah blah”. This rhetoric is starting to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher to me.
Another reminder: Business is personal.
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