Air Canada has officially announced massive international long haul expansion from the IATA Summer 2017 season onwards as it looks to capitalizing on increased demand from large VFR market segments + regaining lost market share to competitors.
The main highlights are as follows:
- Toronto-Mumbai 3 weekly B789s effective 01JUL
- Vancouver-Taipei daily B789s effective 08JUN
- Montreal-Algiers 4 weekly B763s effective 26JUN
- Vancouver-Nagoya 3 weekly B763s effective 01JUN
- Montreal-Marseille 3 weekly B763s effective 09JUN
- Toronto-Berlin 4 weekly B763s effective 01JUN
Detailed press release can be read below:
http://aircanada.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1064
The P2P round trip demand for these new routes in 2015 was as follows: - YYZ-BOM 76,000
- YVR-TPE 102,000
- YUL-ALG 71,000
- YVR-NGO 12,000
- YUL-MRS 39,000
- YYZ-TXL 24,000
