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Originally Posted by EdmTrekker
 soon to be 7 days - sales continue to go UP UP UP
Why are you concerned where the metal comes from?? AC is happy to code share and not contribute ANY metal or station at YEG to the US...and United does the lifting...if FI have to beg borrow lease or cut or reduce service elsewhere so what? |
Not concerned from a YEG or FI perspective, but one does not require complex scheduling and network planning tool to figure out a 21 airplane fleet that flies primarily at the upper end of mid haul range. FI has about 250 weekly flights so MS Excel is all that is required to figure out where there is slack in the flying schedule.
If the network and fleet are appropriately balanced , there should be no slack in the summer schedule for North Atlantic cause if you cant make money in the summer, something is drastically wrong.
If the fleet is at capacity flying (once mtce has been factored in) the only way to added new services is to cut unprofitable or marginally profitable flying. Legacy airlines are good at announcing both side of flying equation, however smaller airlines and particularly LCCs do not announce service cuts. Its left up to the avgeek network planner wannabes to figure out where the metal is comming from. its the wannabe angle that I have a front row curiosity in this dog fight.
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Originally Posted by tuffyy
FI is adding 3 additional ex AA 752's shortly.
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The schedule announced way back in September accounted for most of the 3 752 retreads, I took the remaining schedule slack to be that FI was over accounting for mtce requirements (or alternately had heavy mtce requirements on their existing fleet such that .75 tail equivalent was missing from the schedule). Since September, I have not heard of FI picking up any additional lift.
FI shares the same problem as WS Alberta to Hawaii operation, unexpected delays in the schedule can wreak havoc with ontime performance. The only way to counter this operational risk is to fly with a lot of slack in the schedule. After 2 years of operational incidents caused by unexpected mtce, WS increased their flying by 0.5 tail but added 1 aircraft to the operation. The additional schedule slack has improved OTP.
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, the pdf I have shows 50,902 International passengers for 2013 (Jan) and it now stands at 56,246, the correct growth should be +10.5% (I will edit it).
Love the mod you made to your avatar, Biggie. Good for YCD, I hear there's a lot of demand from YEG, so good news. Even if it means downgrading the YQQ flight to Encore as well. It's about practicality. Those Q's are great airplanes. What's an extra 10-15 minutes flying time?
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