This one really makes me laugh.
Air Canada are worried about Dubai as a hub airport stealing their passengers and traffic???
A Toronto-Dubai flight with Emirates is around 12-13 hours. Then add on whatever "connecting" flight that they are supposedly trying to pilfer you on and you are looking at a full day of flying.
Air Canada fly direct from Toronto to Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. 13 hours....Why would you want to do two flights with Emirates the other way...for a long time period? Are Air Canada really that c***??
Same for their Israel flight. Would you go Toronto-Dubai-Tel Aviv or maybe just Toronto-Tel Aviv.
What other flights could they be worried about.
Vancouver-Sydney....direct perhaps. Or will people choose...Vancouver-Toronto-Dubai-Sydney....
a) At Toronto, it will force many airlines such as KLM, British Airways to reduce capacity as well as force Air Canada to suspend one of their 4 daily TOR-LON flights. In addition, one can also bet on airlines such as PIA, Jet Airways, Austrian Airlines and Turkish Airlines to suspend their own respective flights to the city. Lastly, it will also prevent newer services being launched to the airport from interested carriers such as Egypt Air, Kingfisher Airlines, South African Airways in the long term.
Why will KLM, BA and Air Canada have to reduce capacity when they can beat Emirates on any time factor with connections. Or is their product not up to scratch?
Why would Turkish have just started up to Toronto if they were worried about Emirates (when Emirates were here before Turkish)?
Why would Austrian suspend their service and leave no direct flight? People are going to fly Vienna via Dubai??
The only reason Air Canada would have to suspend one of the Heathrow flights is that you are competing against 3 BA flights in the summer, plus Transat to Gatwick and the regionals (and LL on the odd occasion)and Thomas Cook to all the regionals. In the summer there can be over 12 flights a day to the UK. What do Emirates have to do with that?
The only way PIA will suspend its service is if they lose certification on their aircraft again. Too large a pakistani population in the GTA for them to fail. Same goes for Jet Airways. There are plenty of passengers to serve both airlines.
Air Canada...concentrate on your own product...and stop being such a hypocrite!