10-13-2016, 12:10 AM
(10-12-2016, 10:30 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(10-12-2016, 09:45 PM)rangersfan Wrote: There was an article a couple weeks back talking about how Vidyard flys in sales and other executives from the United States weekly because they couldn't find the talent locally. Without a local connection to the United States (technically you could go YKF to Calgary to certain American destinations, but requires substantial added time and flexibility loss) I hope it doesn’t have an effect on the competitiveness for local businesses and attracting new business.
Realistically YYZ isn't that bad. Even if we still had AA, it would be Chicago only, so might not help Vidyard (or others) much. I know our US visitors would normally fly direct to YYZ rather than connecting through ORD to YKF. And it takes 45+ minutes to get to our offices from PHL, ATL or SFO as well.
Actually as some one who used to fly to SFO every other week, YKF is a perfectly fine alternative once the direct YYZ-SFO fights were full, which was about half of the time. However, as I suggested, I think we have enough traffic for a YKF-SFO direct flight twice daily. If you are going say, to LA you can take a $120 shuttle flight from SFO that will get you there.