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Originally Posted by whatnext
Dropping YVR-LAX also seems extreme. I’ve been on those flights and they used to be quite full. I guess theyre putting all their eggs in the YYC basket. All fun and games until the next oil downturn.
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Originally Posted by nname
But for market like YVR-LAX when there are plenty of other cheap non-stop options available, are there anyone who are willing to go out of the way to connect at YYC?
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Oil might have had some part in the reason WS chose YYC as their hub, but not much really. whether oil goes up or down won't have much effect on its use as a hub. If you're WS, and you want to make a hub, you're not going to pick YVR which already had a strong AC presence and not likely going to pick YEG or YWG. YYC being next to a large tourist destination always made sense as a west central hub.
As for people taking connecting flights through YYC to go to LAX, it's one of those things that plays out how it plays out. There will be better options for direct from YVR to LAX, but for the other cities in Western Canada, WS has a better feeder network and has flexibility on pricing and scheduling.
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