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Originally Posted by CoryB
The WS Halifax and St John's flights to Europe go back to when they only ran a 737 fleet and they could hit EU destinations from there but basically no where else in the country. They basically used those cities as trans-Atlantic hubs.
As for YGW-LGW definitely and experimental route and wouldn't be surprising to learn the YWG airport authority had given some concessions to make it happen in the first place. Best guess is WS had hoped to attract trans-Atlantic travelers from the prairies to have them connect outwards from LGW only that didn't really happen.
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Yeah I think if it was an experiment it was half baked. They clearly were not invested in the success of the route. You send one plane once per week and it doesn't really serve much utility. If they were serious there would have been like three a week. Because they would never even have anything remotely close to people connecting in YWG the route was destined to fail. If it were a regular service that allowed people to bypass connecting anywhere in North America, I could see it working, but we'd probably have to feed it with some out of town connections too. Don't think any airline would elevate YWG to the point of having that kind of utility.