Originally Posted by
jensdad
On a side note, the lack of a clear definition of the words 'long-haul' and 'short-haul' offers
PR men an opportunity to bend the truth. Newcastle Airport continuously big up the Emirates flight to Dubai as their 'first ever scheduled long haul service', when they had scheduled service to Toronto for years in the 1980's and possibly the 1990's.
NCL-YYZ is only about 100 nm shorter than NCL-DXB, so I doubt that the airport is differentiating on that basis.
Were the Toronto services (presumably Air Transat) in the OAG? Maybe NCL are treating those as charter rather than scheduled?