Originally Posted by
Betablockeruk
'New' AC Vancouver services to Paris and Zurich for S18 and more annoyingly LHR getting a double daily. There was a rumour about AC MAN-YVR knocking around last November. End of?
Seems the MAN-YYZ market isn't quite right for mainline. Frustrating, because the route carried 105,480 passengers last year (Rouge and Transat), and AC launched Montreal-Tokyo off the back of 24,880 O&D.
I think there are benefits to AC mainline - they would pick up more connecting traffic to North America for a start.
As said, I don't expect anything brand new for 2018 - incremental increases to existing routes would be good. I think the next 2-3 years we will be looking east for new carriers. Perhaps we will see some modest TATL growth, but I expect this will be driven by TCX.