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MakeYEGGreatAgain said:
WS just cancelled YEG-ORD, SFO and SEA.

Thank you for limiting our travel options and forcing us to go through YYC
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Indeed the transborder is getting pummelled but better in some ways to keep diversity in airlines with Uniter offering ORD, San Francisco with Air Canada, and Seattle long offered by Alaska. As for driving to YYC it’s a big bump but don’t think any public data has been shared in a while.
 
MakeYEGGreatAgain said:
WS just cancelled YEG-ORD, SFO and SEA.

Thank you for limiting our travel options and forcing us to go through YYC
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All of these flights were stupid from the beginning. Why WJ would try to go at United hubs like ORD or SFO made zero sense. Yes people travel to Chicago and SF but those are major hub airports. Seattle with Alaska is the exact same. WJ shouldn’t have bothered with those and focused on other Delta hubs. Dumb protectionist move that amounted to nothing.
 
Ned said:
Interesting how Vancouver has more passengers and Calgary almost has as much passengers as Montreal, yet Montreal has a significant number of more routes.
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Geography. I was also surprised when I went to Montreal to see so many flights offered, such as to parts of French speaking Africa. They are close to Europe and closer to Africa.

Likewise, Vancouver is closest to Asia and Toronto is close to the heavily populated north eastern US. This is why I feel, trying to force or create an artificial hub elsewhere in Alberta will not work in the end.
 
Ned said:
Interesting how Vancouver has more passengers and Calgary almost has as much passengers as Montreal, yet Montreal has a significant number of more routes.
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Montreal is closer to more destinations in Europe and North America so they can use smaller aircraft on those routes. Vancouver is very far from major destinations in Asia so they just funnel way more passengers on fewer routes flown by gigantic aircraft with enough range.
 
MakeYEGGreatAgain said:
WS just cancelled YEG-ORD, SFO and SEA.

Thank you for limiting our travel options and forcing us to go through YYC
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With traffic to the US down it was going to happen. We can still go with the US carriers, but options are limited, IIRC we don’t have non stop to ORD and SFO is only in the summer, or has that changed?
Also worth noting, YYC also lost their flight to RDU.
 
I’m going to put in my flak jacket because this won’t be a popular opinion. I find the common answer is to blame WestJet for all of YEG’s ills, but I would also put as much blame or more on AC and other carriers. AC abandoning YEG left the door open for WS to consolidate. The American carriers also have chosen to make YYC their prairie hub with all of them having multiple daily flights year round between YYC and their US hubs. Last week AA added non stops to YYC even though AC and WS already have 12 flights a week there. They could have chosen YEG, but didn’t.

I don’t like that WS made YYC their hub, but other carriers could add flights to YEG, and aren’t. They deserve some blame too. Maybe even more.
 
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WestJet has increased the frequency on other routes, the press release should be out tomorrow.

Charlottetown from 1 to 2 weekly
Halifax from 13 to 14 weekly
Kamloops from 2 to 3 weekly
Kelowna from 28 to 41 weekly
Minneapolis from 5 to 7 weekly
Moncton from 3 to 4 weekly
Nanaimo from 2 to 3 weekly
Puerto Vallarta from 1 to 2 weekly
Reykjavik new 1 weekly
St. John's from 5 to 6 weekly
Vancouver from 53 to 60 weekly
Yellowknife from 4 to 7 weekly
 
WS is really horrible. cutting so much at YEG. Even Montreal was cut and Ottawa is much more limited vs last year. Abbotsford also seeing cuts. YYC is getting upgrades to the same destinations. I sometimes wonder why WS bothers giving us random flights (like the once a week to Iceland).
 
I’ve also found the Westjet hatred bizarre, as I’ve said before. It’s the one airline that is really attempting different routes and regularly launching new options. I guess when they put themselves out there it also means there are more frequent schedule adjustments/cuts.

If YEG were to lose 1 single airline without others filling in the void, I would argue Westjet would be the only one that would really cripple the airport.

This isn’t a commentary on their fleet, inflight service, or anything beyond their route network out or YEG.
 
Montreal has more WS flights than YYC & YEG together - that’s surprising.

“Reykjavik new 1 weekly”. A nice crumb.
 
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Oilers99 said:
This x1000. Great post! Even though you’re going to get ripped to shreds by people who refuse to believe it’s true.
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Thanks - I don't get many thumbs up for my posts. I am a proud conservative and UCP supporter who thinks Daniel Smith is smart, pragmatic, business focused and professional - plus very hard working and she represents the views of most Albertans and is why she will continue to lead this province. I also think most people here are blinded by TDS and have allowed an obnoxious loud mouthed US President to get in their heads and this has been an ongoing disaster for Canada. The Liberals need to be voted out - they have been running things for 11 years now and so many problems. The country needs a new government and more Liberal rule will do more damage - the Liberal divide and conquer playbook is in hyper drive now and referendums in Alberta and Quebec in the near future have brought this country to the edge - Trump must be thrilled and can't believe how easy it was.
 
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