AC adds capacity to Western Canada for winter 2005
Author:
jack
01 6th, 2009 in
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Daily non-stop service from Calgary-Fort McMurray will be introduced
departing Calgary at 0630, offering a convenient morning flight for corporate
travellers. The return flight from Fort McMurray is timed for convenient mid-
day connections with Air Canada's extensive network across Canada and the USA.
Two additional daily flights between Calgary and Edmonton will also be added
for a total of 16 daily flights to offer connections to and from Northern
Alberta. All Calgary-Grande Prairie flights will be operated exclusively with
Dash 8 aircraft, resulting in a significant increase in capacity on this
route. In addition, effective January 05, 2005, Air Canada will be adding an
additional flight from Calgary-Toronto for a total of 10 daily flights.
Air Canada will also be adding one additional round-trip flight between
Vancouver and Kelowna to offer connections from its Vancouver hub to and from
the BC interior during the peak ski season.
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I rarely set foot on them anyways. ^
PE only knows lawyers and not real business men who do fly AC/Jazz..cuz I fly with them all the time :D
Calgary usually wins
Air Canada is still quite firmly committed to cutting domestically and shifting that capacity (as best they can) to transborder and international routes. At the same time, it seems they are experiencing good demand domestically, and perhaps especially out west, so they will try to add what they can to take advantage of that. Perhaps they have a few aircraft coming back from maintenance in January.
As far as Edmonton is concerned, I am afraid Air Canada is still withdrawing from there. Did you notice the Edmonton-Saskatoon service seems to have disappeared? The company is probably conducting a rearguard with such markets. They will hang on where they can, but if they lose money, then Edmonton-Grande Prairie, Edmonton-Fort McMurray, or even Edmonton-Winnipeg can be sacrificed. (I do not expect this!).
For Edmonton itself, however, the future is brighter, since passenger traffic is growing strongly, and other carriers are more than making up the slack. It is just that Edmonton will tend to disappear from the Air Canada route map and appear on someone else's.
These is my analysis. I have no inside information.
Couldn't care less about the jokers at AC/AP since the vast majority of business people I know won't patronize them no matter where they try to fly... :p
I rarely set foot on them anyways. ^
Sorry, but I really do not see Air Canada investing to much in Edmonton. As a fan of Edmonton, I would be more than happy if I was wrong. But from a business stand point investing in Edmonton besides maybe a international flight and points to its four other Domestic hubs would not make sense in there operation.
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AKAIK this route has never been tried n/s before.
Calgary usually wins
When was the last time Calgary won a stanley cup or the grey cup?
I don't think it looks like something the ERAA would do. Looks more like a private individual.
I guarantee that WS will not drop YMM as a destination. Can't say why, but I know it won't happen.
Air Canada is still quite firmly committed to cutting domestically and shifting that capacity (as best they can) to transborder and international routes. At the same time, it seems they are experiencing good demand domestically, and perhaps especially out west, so they will try to add what they can to take advantage of that. Perhaps they have a few aircraft coming back from maintenance in January.
As far as Edmonton is concerned, I am afraid Air Canada is still withdrawing from there. Did you notice the Edmonton-Saskatoon service seems to have disappeared? The company is probably conducting a rearguard with such markets. They will hang on where they can, but if they lose money, then Edmonton-Grande Prairie, Edmonton-Fort McMurray, or even Edmonton-Winnipeg can be sacrificed. (I do not expect this!).
For Edmonton itself, however, the future is brighter, since passenger traffic is growing strongly, and other carriers are more than making up the slack. It is just that Edmonton will tend to disappear from the Air Canada route map and appear on someone else's.
These is my analysis. I have no inside information.
My analysis is that you can't make any valid conclusions until you see how the CRJ-705s, EMB-175s, EMB-190s and additional CRJ-200s are deployed. Air Canada is adding a significant number of aircraft in the next two years. They aren't all going on transborder. They will launch new domestic services and enhance others. Talk of domestic downsizing is decieving, and if recent traffic numbers haven't made it obvious, than the deployment of new aircraft will confirm that AC's domestic market is growing irrespective of what's happening to its domestic market share. It may be that WJ, CJ and SG are shoving more capacity into the domestic market, and that AC's share of total capacity is declining, but on revenue traffic generation, AC is not only commited to domestic stability, but increasing overall RPMs. That is bound to benefit YEG. One notion is that AC will look to overfly Toronto more and more because of the chaos at YYZ. AC plans to add new services at YYZ, but would rather not add much to the total number of acft moving through Toronto until all of its activity is housed in one building. So look for YEG to get more long hauls not less domestically. It just isn't happening this winter.
WS has their 737 runs and I'm sure Jazz will put RJ's on that route when they are available.
Now, direct flights to Montego Bay...that would be something :D
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