Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW/CYOW)

[solo748]

Originally Posted by fanofYOW

That is not what Dominion said. They mentioned that the timing of the flights was the surprise. And quite frankly, I find the 3x weekly on the XLR to be appalling. RomanR provides valuable info on the loads of these LHR flights, which you are more than welcome to go back to the comments made from them last winter to check the loads. After checking, ask yourself is the reduction from the 788 to an XLR warranted?

I literally read his load reports and said the loads were screaming XLR. AC don't like half empty flatbeds overnight into LHR (or anywhere, obviously)
What's appalling is 3 weekly. Exacerbated when it's only 3X using the daytime slot.

Originally Posted by solo748

Your anecdotal load reports (which include UG/staff travel etc) scream just how great the XLR would be on YOWLHR daily or 6x/wk
I hope AC don't run XLR to FRA which will cannibalize CDG

10-12 weekly combined to LHR and CDG is a sweet spot IMO

Originally Posted by fanofYOW

AC can indeed increase these frequencies or at the very least put the 4x weekly in YOW over YHZ. It's clear AC wants nothing to do with YOW and this LHR route is just a "see? we're giving you a TATL, now shut up". YOW can in fact handle more capacity and more routes TATL, denying this gives me flashbacks of the skeptics such as yourself when AF announced their plans a few years ago. Now those people are eating their words

Yeah, I'm eating my words that YOW is a thin, marginal market and the airport authority would be wise to do what it can to shore-up and support their flagship route rather than pie-in-the-sky aspirational mindset which would cannbalize CDG.

Why would BA choose STL over YOW? Why don't Icelandair come or Aer Lingus?

Originally Posted by fanofYOW

There seems to be a pattern though I've noticed with AC. They don't give a damn until another carrier does something. YHZ-BRU or better yet, YYC-LHR staying DAILY on a WIDE BODY in the winter would never be a thing if it wasn't for WS.

If AC reacts to other carriers, why didn't they react to AF at YOW?

Where does all this untapped, viable demand go? Still leaking to YUL?

AC is in the YOWLHR market. Why would the discard such viable demand?