Posted Dec 6, 2025, 4:04 AM
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hähnchenbrüstfiletstüc
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Vancouver
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To be clear I'm not saying A -> B -> C routing can't make sense operationally. Just that "might as well add SJ as a stop for some people while a bunch of others will take the flight for YYZ <-> YHZ" doesn't make a lot of sense for the reasons mentioned. Adding a stop on a flight is costly in time and money, these flights are so short that the stop time is large relative to the flight itself, and there are plentiful direct alternatives. That's before you even get to talking about demand for SJ specifically.
I do think it's fair to say that Saint John is a bit screwed over by geography and politics, through no fault of its own:
- US border nearby, tall order to get Americans to fly via SJ
- Fredericton is the capital and is close by so there's a tendency to put an airport there too
- Moncton is a hub and now largest in NB, so it also tends to attract flights
It's like the situation in some corners of Ontario which have pretty meagre local air service relative to the population.
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