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Old 21st Sep 2005, 18:44
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le soixante neuf
 
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CYHZ I imagine

I imagine a stop in Halifax would be the order of the day. It's not so saturated as YYZ -LGW and offers the airline quite a bit of flexibility as to guest/fuel loads. There would also be connecting guests from YYZ, YUL,YOW, YYC and just about anywhere else. The price of fuel would be likely double in KEF what it would be in Halifax, with no opportunity to add revenues customers.

Up until the collapse of C3, Halifax always had widebody service to Europe, to compete with AC.
Canadian Pacific/Canadian flew DC-10s to AMS, followed by KLM/Martinair themselves. Royal, Transat and C3 all flew across the pond with varying degrees of frequency and types of aircraft.
Icelandair also flew nightly to Rekyavik, with connections to various European destinations.
No sir...opportunity is presenting itself here...like I said though, if we're going to carry the flag...we should get a bigger one.

le69

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