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Originally Posted by Bigtime
I believe Dubai and Auckland would be load restricted due to YYC's elevation. I think HKG would be good though.
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They must have thought Dubai was plausible at one point, because they applied for (and were granted) slots there a few years ago.
I wonder if that's one where the weather here (ie, mostly cold) would be enough to allow for commercial payloads? I'd expect that to be a more popular destination in the winter anyway, so I could see it starting as winter seasonal anyway, so the expected cold weather in our winters should improve take-off performance and thus payload, I think? Maybe in the summers run it in the morning (Eg SEA-DXB leaves at like 9:50 AM), could go even earlier so temps were lower for takeoff. Maybe not, and Westjet's 787's must be fairly heavy given how many more seats they put in them than other operators.
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Originally Posted by surferguy
Fine - give me direct to Rarotonga then, make Hawaii complete flyover country.
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I'd love to see stuff like this. Maybe once a week each to Fiji/French Polynesia during the winter.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I think it would be less likely they'd do Amsterdam, given their code share with KLM. Hong Kong might be the same situation.
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They have Amsterdam slots, but they're using them from Halifax right now. I suspect if they can get more they'd prefer people from here fly to AMS on Westjet planes not KLM planes - they don't have a JV with KLM, so they don't get much $ for those tickets right now.
I hope they don't decide to just do London/Paris/Rome/Barcelona from Toronto or Vancouver with these - would love to see more destinations added here.