Air Canada suspends 6 routes 'no longer economically feasible' amid jet fuel cost crisis
Posted by TobiasWidower@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 25 comments
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First Cuba shuts down and had a full energy collapse, now air Canada pulling routes for being too expensive, and the prices are only going to climb the longer the straight of hormuz situation goes on.
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mexican-street-tacos@reddit
To be fair, airlines add and drop routes all the time. If they can't get butts in the seats with the margins they want, they will cut that route.
MmeLaRue@reddit
Why are they running routes to JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark? Can they not get enough slots at one of them?
uhbkodazbg@reddit
They serve different purposes. LaGuardia is primarily O/D traffic. Newark is primarily to feed into United flights. The JFK flights never made a lot of sense.
AdmiralAsshat69@reddit
How many people go from Toronto to Salt Lake City??
junkyeinstein@reddit
Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago. That’s the top 5 most populous cities in North America. Would Chicago to Salt Lake City be considered weird or is it just that you didn’t realize how big Toronto was?
AdmiralAsshat69@reddit
I meant the Salt Lake City part, just surprised there's enough traffic.
chaosisblond@reddit
I don't think Toronto was the part of the route they were judging.
unknownpoltroon@reddit
one family, but its 25 wives and 200 children
guitar_vigilante@reddit
Enough to justify sending a plane between the two cities at the previous fuel prices.
thehourglasses@reddit
Tell that to Lufthansa who sent over 10,000 empty planes over the course of a few years simply to preserve their slots at certain airports.
guitar_vigilante@reddit
Is your contention that Air Canada only kept that route open to preserve their slots at Salt Lake City?
thehourglasses@reddit
My contention is that capitalism creates an abhorrent amount of waste, and whatever bs ex post facto justification you want to select to excuse it or rationalize it is just putting your shoulder to the wheel of the ongoing mass extinction event.
guitar_vigilante@reddit
Yes, absolutely. I agree. But your comment is basically irrelevant to the question I answered, unless you have some way to connect that to Air Canada cancelling the Salt Lake City route.
thehourglasses@reddit
Nothing is irrelevant in the era of the Anthropocene.
redditmodsRrussians@reddit
The amount of fuel wasted because of that kind of shit will make people in the future cry if they have tear ducts not filled with microplastics.
roughandreadyrecarea@reddit
One of Utah’s largest industries is tourism/recreation
RottenFarthole@reddit
Oh no, not less air traffic, how will the line go up now??
DeputyChiefBean@reddit
Any idea how to work out how "at risk" a route is? I have London to Vancouver in a month.
takesthebiscuit@reddit
If only Op had linked an article with all the details in 😭😭😭
DeputyChiefBean@reddit
Article doesn't say how likely any future cancellations are likely to be and I don't have any understanding around this subject.
Also, I hadn't read the article when I posted :')
leisurechef@reddit
Catabolic Collapse
TobiasWidower@reddit (OP)
First Cuba shuts down and had a full energy collapse, now air Canada pulling routes for being too expensive, and the prices are only going to climb the longer the straight of hormuz situation goes on.
freesoloc2c@reddit
And Ukraine. Ukraine just took out the biggest Russian export port for oil. Russia was the 3rd largest exporter of oil.
Shoddy-Childhood-511@reddit
Awesome, I so love the Ukranians. I just wish they could hit the stuff over near Vladivostok. :)