Seat 1a From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (13 years 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1500 times:
hello,
in todays canadian papers is an article where BA has threatened to first pull ot of YVR and Montreal. (and perhaps toronto)
AC has advised that they will impose up to three times the connecting charge for BA passengers travelling on AC domestic to connect onto BA.
YOW - LHR via YYZ on BA..... the current amount is about $300.00 that AC recieves.... this amount has now been quoted to increase to just about $1000.00 (i assume we are talking about J-Class as neither of my papers today indicated which class)
This will price BA out of the market.
further, other airlines with a limited scope in canada such as LH, WILL BE UNAFFECTED!
Avion From Bouvet Island, joined May 1999, 2205 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (13 years 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1344 times:
BA a will put this to an end very fast. I believe they will prohibit connecting from a BA flight to a AC flight.
BA has much power in LHR and all of the officials are on the BA side. They will probably give AC bad slots and etc.
Louis From Canada, joined Oct 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (13 years 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1335 times:
How many of you honestly think the AC-CP mearger was a good thing? If BA pulls out, not only could AC flights shift to Gatwick, Canada would be stuck with just Lufthansa. Not a very rosy picture.
Polaris From Canada, joined Feb 2000, 1118 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (13 years 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1315 times:
British Airways will not pull out of Canada. This is just posturing and lobbying by BA. Members of oneworld lost Canadi>n Airlines from their ranks. Expect more members of oneworld to posture and lobby against Air Canada.
YEG 757 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (13 years 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1300 times:
I agree with Polaris.
The Canadian House of Commons transportation committee is conducting hearings on the AC-CP merger and may wish to amend the legislation that governs the merger. BA officials appear before the committee today and this is their opportunity to influence the legislation. BA is taking a strong position, and airing it through the media, in order to influence Canadian public opinion, hopefully sway the committee to amend the legislation in BA's favor, and thus protect their own interests as best as they can.
AC183 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 1532 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1285 times:
Given that the story was printed in the National Post, I don't know what to think of it, it always seems to me the National Post has some pretty strong biases. Also, I think BA is posturing, lobbying, and presenting the worst case scenario. The example they gave was YOW-YYZ, I believe, but I am of the understanding that BA used to use CP flights direct on YOW-LHR to serve that market and also had a bus service to YUL, so where is the loss of feed? Same thing goes for YYC-YVR that they mentioned. Also, I understand that the pricing from AC for BA connections is somewhat a flat rate (not sure on that, but I have heard it elsewhere) so that cost isn't so bad on a YYC-YYZ leg if they made the connection like that. Also, BA has the option to work with Via Rail to provide connections to YUL from Ottawa, Quebec City, and so on. I have to say, I think this is pretty political. Also, CP was losing a lot of money and tried to generate cash by sometimes pricing lower than they should have. Also, my feelings towards BA are that if they want the traffic, they can fly the routes- they have authority to fly anywhere between Canada and the UK that they like. Shoot, they could even fly routes like YEG-YYC-LHR and just not be able to carry local passengers on the YYC-YEG leg, if they really wanted. They can complain as they like, but I don't give them too much sympathy. After all, Virgin Atlantic has said they want to fly some routes into Canada, BA wouldn't dare pull out for competitve reasons so I think it's hot air they're blowing.
Also interesting, their spokesman was Mr. Jeff Angel- didn't he used to be with CP?
TEDSKI From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1276 times:
This is a bunch of nonsense from two airlines belonging to nations of the British Commonwealth. These airlines should have some kind of pact as far as connecting flights between the two of them.
AC183 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 1532 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1267 times:
And another reason I think they're just posturing: they're flying fairly large aircraft into Canada, 747's as well as 777's. If it's that bad they can downgauge to smaller aircraft to make it economical.
CX747 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4385 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1254 times:
What type of aircraft would they downgaudge to? They operate 767s but these for the most part are operated into Europe and Africa if I am not mistaken. A 757-200?
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." D. Eisenhower
Slawko From Canada, joined May 1999, 3799 posts, RR: 10 Reply 9, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1248 times:
CX747 they could use the 757 infact there used to be a flight to YYZ from Manchester i think it was, and BA used the 757.
It will neve happen, there are 47 flights a week between Toronto and London alone (including AC/CP/andBA, but not including the Concorde flights in the summer)
I doubt that BA would ever pull out of Canada give me a break....that would leave the ONE WORLD Alliance with only one airline into Canada, not to mention the fact that by pulling out of Canada BA would be loosing a big market, I'm not saying that they would go bankrupt or suffer a major hit in the pocketbooks, but Canada is a big market for BA and there is NO way that they will ever pull out of Canada
"Clive Beddoe says he favours competition, but his actions do not support that idea." Robert Milton - CEO Air Canada
Seat 1a From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1230 times:
i tend to think that perhaps it is politically inspired tact by both AC to increase their charges and for BA to threaten a withdrawl of services.
although the edmonton journal reported the same article, the Ed. Journal went on to say that LH will not be levied with the increases.
Is this specific to BA?
What other airlines may be affected that are on a smaller scale than BA?
SR? AF? what about them?
I wonder.... I wonder if airlines like BA, AA, QF are regretting not pulling CP out of the hole. i ask because although there was an earlier comment about how big canada is to BA and they "will" not pull out, I would suggest that Canada is not big enough for these three airlines to save CP!
On a side note, I flew in J-Class on AC 233 (A319) from YEG - YVR on saturday and our flight snack consisted of a bag of old dutch potato chips! Bloody Business Class and we get potato chips....
AC_A340 From Canada, joined Sep 1999, 2251 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1226 times:
>It will neve happen, there are 47 flights a week >between Toronto and London alone (including >AC/CP/andBA, but not including the Concorde flights in >the summer)
The Concorde comes to Canada? Daily? What time? Toronto?
Slawko From Canada, joined May 1999, 3799 posts, RR: 10 Reply 13, posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1207 times:
BA bring the concorde in a few times a week to Toronto during the summer on a charter, a few years ago they also had a London Toronto New York Toronto London flight, I think that only happened once though...
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