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Originally Posted by Ozabald
LAS is not a hub airport. It's an O&D airport with minimal connecting traffic. The three largest US airlines in LAS by passenger volume are Southwest, Frontier and Spirit. Outside of Frontier's codeshare agreement with Volaris, these airlines do not have interline agreements.
Long term, it will be interesting if the ATL route stays around after the subsidy runs out. YOW and YHZ which had ATL service prior to the pandemic have not yet have this service restored; and YVR only has seasonal service which is somewhat surprising give its larger corporate sector and much larger film/tv industry. Likely their ATL flight is servicing the Alaskan cruise traffic.
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There is also a connection between Winnipeg and Atlanta with the CDC and the NML in Winnipeg. I know a few people who go back and forth between the two cities because of the work on disease control. There is a partnership there.
I think they are playing this smartly. Atlanta is a hub to South America as well as many Central America locations; i.e. Costa Rica. They also service Europe very heavily and connect to Cape Town, Cairo, Lagos and Casablanca with direct flights. While most Winnipeggers aren't likely to be going direct to Atlanta, it offers a lot of other connection points that is going to take a big hit out of Air Canada by my best estimation. Now, if you fly out of YWG, Air Canada, Westjet and Delta are all viable options. Given my last flying experience going to Europe with Air Canada via Toronto, it will change how I fly. I will never want to fly out of Toronto again. It is literally the worst airport in North America. That in of itself might persuade me to look at other options. I'm thinking they have data that would support this move and my best guess would be that it is trying to take a hit out of Air Canada.