Stockholm, wow! Every now and then I like to remind myself (and by writing this, all mtlurb forum members), of YUL’s really incredible growth in the past 25 years, and how Air Canada’s hub-building/connecting traffic has been a key component of this. Am I the only one who sometimes thinks “ATH and FCO 450 seaters every day all summer? Dream on. NRT from here, wtf? AUS? It doesn’t make sense, we don’t even deserve that.” At YUL in the late 1990s, when sked had returned to Dorval but TS (and other) charters were still at Mirabel, Air Canada’s daily departures at YUL consisted of:
-Overseas CDG / LHR / FRA / seasonal FCO and seasonal NCE (even FRA was for a while a 767 that one-stopped at YHZ)
-Transborder NYC / DCA / ORD / LAX / MIA (plus Jazz Dash-8s into Boston, Philadelphia and Hartford)
-Domestic YYZ / YHZ / YYT / YWG / YYC / YEG / YVR
LIS, ALG, BCN, TLS, VCE, MXP, ARN, CPH, DUB? Only with BA/AF/KL/SR online connections. (You could also fly nonstop to ATH on OA, TLV on EY, CMN on AT, SVO on SU, BRU on SN and CAI on MS)
No Asia, no South America.
RDU, BNA, AUS, PHX, DEN, MSP, MSY, SAN, SEA, STL? Maybe through a YYZ connection (or DL/NW/AA/US).
Nonstops to YQR, YQY, YYJ? Not even conceivable, nowhere on the distant radar.
Of course I will have missed a few destinations and carriers but I think the general point has been made.
Now, let's see what ADM is going to offer up for the '2018 growth plan 2.0'