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Originally Posted by someone123
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.
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One of the Porter flights between Moncton and Billy Bishop in Toronto includes a station stop in Ottawa (the other flighttot Billy Bishop is direct).
I have been on the flight that makes a pit stop in Ottawa a couple of times, and my observation is that there is a lot of traffic just between Moncton and Ottawa, About half the passengers disembarked there, but the plane was filled again by Ottawa passenger heading to Toronto. Because of this a stop in Ottawa nade economic sense because both legs of the trip were at high capacity.
For a station stop in Saint John, the same sort of situation would have to exist. A lot of passengers would have to get on and off the plane in SJ to make such a routing viable. If most passengers just stayed on the plane, then why do the station stop in the first place?
A plane is not like a bus or a train. There is a big fuel and time penalty for doing a station stop.
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