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Community => Transportation, Mass Transit & Infrastructure => Topic started by: ben says on September 27, 2017, 08:57:15 AM

Title: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: ben says on September 27, 2017, 08:57:15 AM
Anyone taken the direct to-from Toronto/Jacksonville?

I read they took their once weekly (twice?) and turned it into a daily.

Just wondering if anyone has flown it, what the feedback is like (are the planes full), etc?

A full YYZ flight could only mean good things for JIA in the future. Here´s to hoping (if New Orleans can get a Frankfurt and London flight....so the thinking goes...wishful thinking, but thinking nonetheless!)
Title: Re: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: Jim on September 27, 2017, 10:27:23 AM
I am curious as well.  Possible flight to Toronto in early December.
Title: Re: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: ben says on September 27, 2017, 12:37:37 PM
Quote from: Jim on September 27, 2017, 10:27:23 AM
I am curious as well.  Possible flight to Toronto in early December.

If you don´t mind me asking, why are you taking the flight? Just trying to gauge what kind of market this flight is after (leisure, biz, etc).

From what I understand, Air Canada has opened this market in the hopes of opening up Europe and the rest of the world to NE Florida, using YYZ as a stopover. (A friend who works for the Jags and is close to Khan told me this.)
Title: Re: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: Gators312 on September 27, 2017, 01:31:01 PM
May 2017 Air Canada carried 668 passengers total at JAX.  362-On / 306-Off
http://www.flyjacksonville.com/content2015.aspx?id=18

It was Sat / Sun service when it started, when did it go daily?

Title: Re: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: Tacachale on September 27, 2017, 02:48:11 PM
We may be taking the returning flight back to Jax in late December, but haven't scheduled it yet.
Title: Re: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: ProjectMaximus on September 27, 2017, 03:56:26 PM
Took it in April/May. I don't really remember so it must have been somewhere between 60-90% capacity. More or less and I feel like I would have noticed.
Title: Re: Air Canada JAX-YYZ-JAX...anyone taken?
Post by: Jim on September 27, 2017, 04:17:07 PM
Quote from: ben says on September 27, 2017, 12:37:37 PM
Quote from: Jim on September 27, 2017, 10:27:23 AM
I am curious as well.  Possible flight to Toronto in early December.

If you don´t mind me asking, why are you taking the flight? Just trying to gauge what kind of market this flight is after (leisure, biz, etc).
Leisure.  Visiting an old colleague.