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Originally Posted by thenoflyzone
You need to get your facts straight.
The only reason for an airline to offer a daytripper is for the passenger experience. There is nothing terrible about it. Yes it reduces the options for connections, but daytrippers are mostly about O&D, and for that crowd, it's an awesome option to have. The reason it's the only benefit for an airline is because everything else about a daytripper is shitty. It's shitty in terms of airline economics, as the plane arrives too late in LHR for a quick turnaround back to Canada, and therefore needs to spend the night at LHR and departs the following day. That adds significant costs to operating a daytripper, especially at an airport like LHR.
Not saying this is the ideal flight for AC from YOW to LHR. It probably isn't, since usually a daytripper flight is operated on top of one or several red-eye flights from a hub, but nonetheless, the point remains, that this won't be a shitty passenger experience.
Daytrippers usually come at a premium compared to redeyes (timings are more favorable for the O&D crowd, and it helps with jet lag), so don't know why AC isn't utilizing this daytripper flight from YYZ, where it belongs, but that's another debate entirely.
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this is sarcasm, right? I mean, you cannot be serious
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Originally Posted by Dominion301
While seeing the XLR show up on YOW-LHR over the winter months isn't surprising, seeing the route get the daytripper slot is
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Wait. You were saying YOW is severely underserved TATL, YOW would grow to 5-6 TATL, Possibly FCO (at some point)....
And now you're
not surprised AC decided to go 3X on a 321 (irrespective of flight timings)???
This is an indictment of the Ottawa market. Paltry LHR service, PD reducing ASMs Y/Y. Better hold on tight to the AF service
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