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Originally Posted by Tyler
Boo hoo.. we lost a direct flight to a country of 300,000 people. Like it's been mentioned, the CAA has bigger markets in focus (Asia)
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You are missing the point (like many others), the flight isn't about direct service to Iceland, it is that Icelandair has set up a nice little hub for their flights onward to Europe (at cheaper rates than most carriers flying AB-Europe at the moment).
As it stands with the upcoming YEG-KEF flights, you get to Iceland and transfer to your next flight to Europe in about a 1-1/2 hour window.
So this is a route that can chip away at not only Air Canada's YEG-LHR flight, but could definitely have some impact on our flights to LHR, FRA, and AMS.
Here is their route map, showing the new service to YEG and YVR:
http://www.icelandair.ca/information...uide/routemap/