Alexcaban

We've surpassed 2019 numbers, its useless to keep comparing them....

I've gonna back to look since Dec 19 on AC's MSP-YUL, the flight wasn't cancelled once during this time period. AC's after 6th freedom pax, and thats exactly what they'll get. DTW is always full of connections to CMN & CAI. Also the dates are pretty random, seems to be for 3 weeks in June only and then back to regular CR9. They had that last year to for a month ATL-YUL was a 223.

I'm not sure why its in this article but AC's YUL-SFO route has been 3 daily in the summer, since before the pandemic.

Sure didn't stop anyone from travelling to BEY this summer. Air Canada even added a 777-300 on the Geneva route just to transport connection traffic to BEY.

AC currently has no planes available to start YUL-ZRH. They even had to remove YVR-ZRH.

Yes, why would LX adding ZRH-YYZ have any effect on ZRH-YUL? Swiss is just adding Toronto 5 weekly and only in the summer. AC does YYZ-ZRH year round. Swiss does ZRH-YUL year round.

LX and AC are JV partners, so both carriers are splitting the revenue. So it doesn't matter who's operating what route. Same for YUL/YYZ-FRA with LH, YUL/YYZ-MUC, YUL/YYZ-VIE

2023 Q4 vs 2022 Q4 AC : BCN (Barcelona) 4 weekly during the winter *NEW ATH (Athens) 3 weekly until end of NOV *up from 2 weekly last year. CDG (Paris) double daily OCT, NOV, DEC *up from 5 weekly (2nd flight) last year. LIS (Lisbon) 3 weekly during the winter *up from 2 weekly last year. FCO (Rome) 3 weekly during the winter *up from 2 weekly last year. DEL (Delhi) 4 weekly NOV, 5 weekly DEC *up from 3 weekly last year. NRT (Tokyo) 4 weekly NOV, DEC, 777-300HD (450 seats) *up from 3 weekly last year 787-9 to 777-300 TLS (Toulouse) 4 weekly during the winter *NEW. Extra Caribbean in there as well. Swiss to ZRH (Zurich) Daily *up from 5-6 weekly last year. Lufthansa to MUC (Munich) 5 weekly *up from 4 weekly last year. Arajet to SDQ (Santo Domingo) 4 weekly *NEW. Emirates to DXB (Dubai) Daily *NEW. I'm sure theres more I'm missing but October, November and December will definitely see big increases as well.

Other routes come to mind as well, DUB and GLA. AC is a business, 787's can be used elsewhere to make money like DEL moving up to 5 weekly. The loads to LIM this passed winter did not work out, also mainly due to political unrest. The Rouge 767 was perfect for this route, unfortunately they are no longer around. If TS decide to start the route, I wish them all the luck possible filling 350 seat 330's with hardly any connections to rely on.

CF Montreal team flights.

There are possibilities one of these airlines start YUL in the near future.

They don't offer resort packages like Sunwing, AC Vacations and Transat offer. Which is what a big chunk of YUL-CUN traffic is going to. I know many people might have their own condos in the area but does it warrant a AeroMexico flight?

Also not mentioned but added to the schedule: FCO Rome use to be cut from mid Jan until mid Feb for the really low season, however it is loaded 3 weekly during this period next winter. As well, LIS Lisbon starts back up much earlier, mid Feb instead of late March. TLS Toulouse continues thru the winter, 4 weekly. LYS Lyon returns, 4 weekly

It's only for the winter folks, they'll be back. When AC receives more A220s they'll be able to shuffle stuff around.

US travel has not returned back to 2019 levels, besides FL. AC is targeting US passengers to transit via Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver to Europe/Africa/Asia. In the summer it works super well, but in the winter when traffic dips to those destinations, it's really hard to serve destinations like Pittsburg, Raleigh, Seattle, etc. And we all know where QCers go in the winter, FLL/Miami, not Seattle.