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Originally Posted by ninjakafi_81
According to this article, ZipAir is considering adding new destinations in North America and Vancouver is one of the listed cities. The other North American destination is Seattle, Portland, and Las Vegas.
The article is in Japanese.
https://sky-budget.com/2023/10/19/zipair-expand-routes/ |
Awesome, this would be a game changer!
The article sources from Nikkei Shimbun and I tracked down the original article at
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQ...01C23A0000000/. It is paywalled but if you hold an account you can read the full article, even with a free account (1 article per month). Note that sign-up is in Japanese.
However from my reading of it, it seems that priority is being given to the three American cities (Seattle, Portland and Las Vegas) over Vancouver, meaning we are the fourth option and potentially less important to Zipair than Portland and Las Vegas. Furthermore, only one of these cities is supposed to get a route in 2024, in line with the delivery of one new 787 aircraft (in general, one aircraft can make one round-trip per day to the West Coast).
They will get 2 more 787s (to expand the fleet from 8 to 10) by fiscal 2025, but they may be used to increase frequencies on existing routes instead of launching more new west coast routes.