Capt.Fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 648 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1882 times:
To the best of my knowledge, United Airlines has never served Montreal. Although they now codeshare with AC, United Airlines itself has never had scheduled flights into Montreal. All other major US Airlines: American, Delta, Northwest, US Airways have scheduled service to Montreral, and have had for quite some time. Any reason why UA never dipped into the Montreal market? Just curious ....
FLY777UAL From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4510 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1801 times:
Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15990 posts, RR: 59 Reply 3, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1786 times:
UA's primary hub has always been ORD. AC has had YUL-ORD flights for years, and AA added YUL-ORD around 1990.....the market was probably not big enough for 3 carriers.
UA's other hubs (SFO and DEN) would not be able to support at most 1 daily YUL flight likely. Witness AC's short term trial with YUL-SFO/DEN.
Hence, UA's specific hub network precluded any YUL presence.
Incidently, AA is relatively new to YUL (mid-to-late 80's) as is NW.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Jean Leloup From Canada, joined Apr 2001, 2106 posts, RR: 23 Reply 4, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1769 times:
However, that's technically just United Express.
I guess united mainline doesn't have much of a reason to fly there with AC already having flights to most UA hubs and such.
RP TPA From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 829 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1728 times:
Is Air Canada doing the ground handling for UA at YUL, or does United have their own staff there?
The777Man From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 6088 posts, RR: 56 Reply 6, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1672 times:
United does not have any staff at YUL. There's no UA or ACA personnel to do ticketing so no one can issue MPI ticktets there, for example. AC will resissue regular revenue tickets.
The777Man
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Skywatcher From Canada, joined Sep 2002, 441 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1636 times:
The new UA express CRJ service (ORD-YUL) is 3 times daily and started a month or two ago.
AA has 5 daily flights on the route (mostly F-100) while AC has 4 (mostly A-319 I believe).
YHU From Canada, joined Jun 2000, 426 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1635 times:
YUL-ORD with AA started well before the mid 1990's. In the 80's, it was being operated with the morning flight (about a 9:20am departure) being a DC10 that continued onto Hawaii. AA started into YUL at least in the 70's. There are photos of their 707's at YUL in the Airliners.net database.
FDH From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 88 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1540 times:
AA serves YUL since at least 1980. I recall seeing AA DC-10 and B-720 in YUL.
NW began its YUL service later. However, Republic Airlines, which was bought by NW, was already serving YUL for some time.
FLYYUL From Italy, joined Jun 2000, 4930 posts, RR: 53 Reply 10, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1514 times:
Indeed..Republic was serving Montreal for at least 25 years, my buddy at work Paride was working for them... all his gear is Republic logos all over it.
Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15990 posts, RR: 59 Reply 11, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1491 times:
I have an AA timetable from 1981 that shows no YUL service. So perhaps AA pulled out for a while. I do recall some fanfare in the mid-to-late 80's when AA added YUL (again I guess).
As for NW, that's true....they inherited the Republic routes but had no NW service prior to the Republic takeover in 1986.
Neil
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Capt.Fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 648 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1446 times:
Here is an American DC-10 at YUL in 1979. From my schedules, I know AA had flown DC-10s between YUL- ORD (of and on) until at least 1990.
Ord From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 1370 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1439 times:
Montreal was one of the eight or so cities American added to its route system right after deregulation. I believe January 25, 1979 was the starting date for those new services, which was American's biggest one-day non-merger expansion up to that point.
Caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9 Reply 15, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1401 times:
AA never started and left but it did fly the LGA run for a short while before it was moved over to Delta.. So technically they started and stopped YUL-LGA. They also switched onto the Miami run from Delta as well. The open skys agreement and alliance networks realigned a lot of US routes and the airlines flying them from Montreal.
Quebecair727 From Canada, joined Apr 2001, 328 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 1319 times:
Hi Yyz717,
I am surprised your timetable does not show any YUL flights. I remember that AA moved in not long after the move from YUL to YMX of all international airlines. Furthermore, the picture of a DC10 above shows a DC10 and a 707 or 720 at YUL in 1979. I am not saying that you are wrong when you say that your timetable does not show YUL flights but I must say I am a little confused. This is something worth investigating about.
Caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9 Reply 18, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1305 times:
I'm a bit surprised too. I'm 100% sure American never came and went in totality. I don't remember when they started YUL service, perhaps it was the early 80s. It's not been that long. They always flew YUL-ORD from the start but did operate a flight to San Juan (also from YYZ) for one winter season and also an LAX flight through YYZ for one summer season. LGA came after Eastern's demise as YYZ717 said but after a few months it was eventually awarded to Delta. The MIA run came after Delta gave up both FLL and MIA service from Montreal presumably to realign their alliance hub connections along with American's. The switch fitted both their needs. DFW is the latest run and is still operating.
Unfortunately United mainline has never flown here although it is nice to see United Express jets at Dorval now. Perhaps UA might join them on the ORD run over time but only if demand picks up. It's not really a triple airline route however.
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