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Originally Posted by Valley_Refugee
I've said it once and I'll say it again, Vancouver has excellent international service for a metropolitan area of 2.5-3M, and one which is not a major commercial centre at that. Your hyperbole can get very grating.
COPA has been in major expansion mode lately. It's business model is largely based on connections from one point in the Americas to another, not Panama O&D. Perhaps given it's recent marriage with Star, it is conceivable we could see a PTY-YVR flight in the medium term. Other flights to Latin America are a pipe dream right now. Even LAX and SFO support few, if any, flights beyond Central America.
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Thank you for the feedback, and sorry about the hyberbole. I guess I'm speaking from more a wishful-thinking state, than a pragmatic, empirically-reasoned one.
Very interesting that LAX has only almost nothing beyond, as in the example with Panama City.
Throughout Canada - graphically! - and even in the united States, good connections to South America seem better in the East. There is now even a nonstop Sao Paulo flight to Charlotte, NC; not exactly the smallish city where you'd expect such.
(No need to mention NYC, Miami, Atlanta or Houston , Toronto......)
Relating size and economy to market demand, as you state, and using Charlotte as an example of a smaller centre but with proportionally outsized air connections: It's a major banking centre (as everone here knows) so wields proportionally more power than the average city of its size, (Frankfurt being just another on its roster, London, too, I believe, and of course Toronto.)
If and when Vancouver goes from Beta+ to Alpha-, things may look a bit different around here, destination-wise, although admittedly we're not really placed to be a world hub, except for East Asia. The only other "hub" aspect for YVR I cab see more in the near future is the Canadian hub for Oceania, Not only Sydney and Auckland, but Melbourne and maybe Brisbane, if it pays. There's a lot of ocean to the west south of YVR.
Nevertheless wouldn' it be great to get Singapore back?!
I have to concede that any real major route development out of YVR is probably a long way away and taking statistical reality into account is the larger part of this.
(By the way, just that mention of a YVR-PTY run was a surprise!)
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