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Originally Posted by esquire
If the whole point of stopping at Thunder Bay is to provide full capacity on a flight to Winnipeg, then isn't that defeated if Porter has to undercut AC/WS to get anyone to fly with them given that they'd take a lot longer to get there?
Might as well just fly to Winnipeg with the plane 1/3 empty, charge full price and call it a day.
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You would assume there is some demand between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. Given Air Canada Express, WestJet Encore and Bearskin operates the route that is probably a good indication. Demand to warrant a fourth airline on the route? I don't know? From their the could offer Montreal and Toronto as a connection.
Flying a load restricted Q400 from Winnipeg to Toronto is silly when the competition is operating 737 and A320 or E90 aircraft.
The only reason I can see for such a flight is Porter sees a business case to operate between Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary and Edmonton. If so then it needs a way of cycling aircraft between its western and central Canada operations. However I don't think they have given any indication that such a move is on their radar screen.