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Originally Posted by fanofYOW
That is exactly the takeaway I got. You can go yicks yourself into oblivion. If someone is driving more to YUL than using YOW, is that not a preference? Regardless of what that individual actually wants? If YOW was my preference I would start here and connect. The second I drive to YUL, then YUL becomes my preference, regardless of what I actually want.
Like I said before, I could care less of what people choose. It is not my business to care for that matter. Everyone has their own reasons why they start in YOW or YUL or Timbuktu. What I can't stand and what I cannot stay quiet about are those that are showing airlines they are willing to drive to YUL to catch a flight to Paris and then complaining about why YOW does not have a direct Paris route plain and simple. I'm very sorry but the harsh reality is that these people are contributing to the reason why YOW does not have such service, no disrespect, it's just reality.
By the way, that question was directed to someone else, not you, to which they responded to it respectfully, sans yicks.
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We should all keep in mind though that even someone going on a trip via YUL for whatever reason, might still strongly prefer (if the circumstances were better) to use YOW and travel from Ottawa. I find it helpful to think about it as a sort of spectrum.
On the one hand, there are people who want YOW's non-stop options to improve so much and want YOW to get so much traffic directly associated with it that they would not contemplate driving to a different airport or opt to pay a huge premium which for many other people would be economically nonviable.
On the other hand, you could have someone who doesn't care what YOW has available or how many non-stop options we come up with in the future, they will happily go to Montreal, Ogdensburg or wherever, just to save a few dollars (sometimes maybe even do the math so poorly that they don't factor in things like the cost of their time, depreciation on their car/gas, etc.) or to ensure they absolutely minimize connections and the problems they can bring.
Ultimately most of us are somewhere in between and as a result, many of us can all find common cause to work towards an improved YOW, an airport that ultimately benefits us across the board. I am also less worried about the fairly air transportation savy people on this forum and more concerned about the average Ottawa-Gatineau region resident who doesn't think about these issues for a moment or is completely resigned to Ottawa being underserved in the long run.
Hopefully as the situation improved here in Ottawa, more and more people willing to go to places like Montreal reach their inflection point and we have a virtuous circle!
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