YUL-PHX times announced

[FlyboyMTL]

With the recently announced service with AC rouge to PHX, i'm a bit surprised with the times.  Doesn't an 1850 arrival land too late for some connections to Europe?

Montreal – Phoenix 22FEB18 – 28MAY18 Seasonal 3 weekly
AC1890 YUL0800 – 1130PHX 319 146
AC1891 PHX1220 – 1850YUL 319 146

Vancouver – Orlando 20DEC17 – 08APR18 Seasonal 2 weekly
AC1648 YVR0845 – 1715MCO 763 37
AC1649 MCO1835 – 2155YVR 763 37

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/272702/air-canada-rouge-adds-new-trans-border-routes-in-w17/?highlight=Montreal

[Alexcaban]

1 hour ago, FlyboyMTL said:

With the recently announced service with AC rouge to PHX, i'm a bit surprised with the times.  Doesn't an 1850 arrival land too late for some connections to Europe?

That's not really what AC is going for. It's more for Montrealers to escape the winters and timed with a morning departure for easy connections with in Canada. However 18:50 is still a reasonable time to catch CDG, LYS, LHR, BRU.

[thenoflyzone]

7 hours ago, FlyboyMTL said:

With the recently announced service with AC rouge to PHX, i'm a bit surprised with the times.  Doesn't an 1850 arrival land too late for some connections to Europe?

A three month seasonal three weekly service isn't really convenient for European connections anyway. And as Alexcaban said, the route was launched to serve the local O&D, and so the flight times reflect that.

Edited May 9, 2017 by thenoflyzone

[ERJ-Boy]

It's also the perfect turnaround time for the aircraft... a 50 minute stop in PHX and off it goes again. And it leaves at a pretty standard hour for westbound US flights

Edited May 10, 2017 by ERJ-Boy

[chris]

These times would allow for easy connections to/from Eastern Canadian cities such as YQB, YHZ, YQM and YOW.

[ERJ-Boy]

It's good timing for Eastern Canada low fare tourism.