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Interesting...

Paris or Frankfurt, or even Amsterdam or Milan, are way ahead of Berlin in the Financial world. HSBC moving "part" of their Ops to Berlin? Doesn't seem extremely significant to me.

What does Brexit have to do with anything related to Berlin??? In any case, Europe's hub financial & industrial centers would include Milan, Copenhagen and Madrid among others. Would much rather see nonstop flights to those cities.

Clinton, Oklahoma? Or do you mean Hong Kong?

Gonna stick to A330s only, then?

In a world of unlimited resources where Air Canada has another 50 long-haul aircraft on order, yes I would focus on getting nonstop service to both areas of the world. But in world where Air Canada has only 8 long-haul aircraft yet to be delivered, I'd rather focus on getting service to those top tier economies (South Korea, Hong Kong, China, Japan). Those countries & their economies would be my priority, seeing as Air Canada's long-haul expansion is soon coming to a halt.

If this is true, great for AC and great for YUL. Everyone should be very happy and proud of the attention they've been placing on YUL over the last few years. Quite frankly, Canada as a whole has benefitted from their expansions out of YYZ, YVR and YUL over the last half decade or so.

The metropolises of Africa (Jo'burg, Cairo, Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos, Accra, etc) pale in comparison to the cities of east Asia (Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, etc) in terms of global economic importance. I'd take nonstop service to secondary Chinese and Japanese cities over the top cities in Africa any day.

YUL-RDU is a shorter route that could work

When did Austrian Airlines pull out of YUL? Must have been at least 10 years ago or so. In any case, I'd love to see nonstop to DUB or MXP with AC, but we'll see.

Sometimes I have to ask myself what century people are still living in. In any case, the growth we've been seeing at YUL has been a wonderful thing and yes, with absolute certainty, Air Canada has been a major driver of that growth - and it should be celebrated. And yes, growth is good for everyone as it stimulates business opportunities, which in turn brings more jobs, better jobs and higher paying jobs to Montreal and Quebec in general.

The fact that Quebec hasn't endured the threat of Quebec separatism for almost two decades now also helps. Business tends to prefer political stability.

It's 2017, I can't believe we still gotta deal with this sh*t

How long until we see YUL-HKG nonstop?

This is excellent, Mark. Great job AC. Tell me you're kidding.