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Beautiful day to be up there! Great shot!
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Really unfortunate - we have a ton of customers in the Chicago area and our guys made good use of that flight for installs and service.
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This is a pretty huge blow. Especially because the planes did seem to have good passenger loads and the reason given will apply to a lot of other airlines the region would want to try and attract.
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This is one of or is the main flight to and from the airport. This is really unfortunate. A couple years ago the company I was working for constantly used this route for employees.
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This is very disappointing. So what's next?
Will the Region subsidize another airline to fly out of YKF? I think many residents would be opposed to that idea.
I'm hoping business leaders, academics and politicians can get together to discuss their YKF needs and to develop strategies to make it happen.
Perhaps a small startup like NextJet (are they still flying??) can be nurtured so it can offer flights to some Canadian and American cities.
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New Leaf is supposed to start flying from a number of underserved airports next month, including Hamilton. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll eventually add YKF. That won't help those wanting to fly to the USA, however.
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I guess the question for AA was whether they were improving their market share into and out of Kitchener with the direct flight. My guess is that most people flying AA out of Kitchener would have probably flown them out of YYZ instead if the flight into Kitchener wasn't available.
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06-23-2016, 09:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2016, 09:18 PM by kps.)
A large fraction of my flights are with AA because they serve Canada and the US airport I usually fly to, but I've never flown from YKF because the prices have always been substantially higher than YYZ plus transportation/parking there. Either YKF seats were in high demand, or AA is dumb.