Rainrider22 Wrote:Looks like another new air service providing the most routes yet...
https://www.waterlooairport.ca/Modules/N...0d73935789
I hope this is successful and they stay long term.
Flair started in Ontario out of YHM (Hamilton). WestJet/Swoop matched all their routes at least $1 cheaper (An Air Canada tactic for years). Once Flair was pushed out by the competition, WJ/Swoop raised prices and cut routes. (This is why I've always said I don't want AC to come to YKF... but I guess any airline can play the bully). They ended up moving to Pearson where they were largely ignored as a nobody in the big pond.
They have tried to get WJ to expand for years, and they haven't... so maybe Flair will be allowed to make a go of it.
YKF had a request for proposals a few years back that allowed airlines to bid on a route, that other airlines couldn't have for a two year period... I wonder if such a deal was made here, and they can have a chance like Porter did.
Coke