Those connections through Halifax could be a
huge opportunity for YSJ. The current situation is quite unfortunate. Air Canada customers in the Saint John region looking to travel to Europe can't connect through Halifax without going through Toronto or Montreal first.
Air Canada has 7 daily flights between Toronto and Halifax... they could quite easily modify the route of one of those daily flights to make it a YYT<->YSJ<->YHZ instead. The Saint John stop would add an extra 8km to the route between Toronto and Halifax, and there would be opportunities for Air Canada to sell some seats on this three city route, twice. Same with Montreal, of those daily flights could be turned into a YUL<->YSJ<->YHZ route and would only add 2km to the route between Montreal and Halifax.
The St. John's airport has also seen a lot of improvements recently, and it too has enormous potential for transatlantic routes, like Halifax. I guess there's only
two daily Air Canada flights between Toronto and St. John's, and
one daily Air Canada flight between Montreal and St. Johns.
Saint John and St. John's
both need at least one more daily Air Canada flight to Montreal and Toronto. Moncton and Fredericton could also benefit from being included in such three city routes between Atlantic and Central Canada.
A stopover at YSJ between YYZ and YYT would add 17km to the route, while a stopover at YQM between Montreal and St. John's would only add 8km to a route between YUL and YYT. (+32 km via YSJ)
Adding five new daily Air Canada flights (YYZ, YUL, YYT and x2 YHZ) would be transformational for the Saint John Airport, and an absolute game changer for those looking to travel to Europe via Halifax and St. John's.
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