MONTREAL — Air Canada delayed or cancelled nearly 2,000 flights over the Canada Day long weekend in a potential taste of more trouble ahead for passengers. Roughly half of all trips by the country's biggest airline — including its lower-cost Air Canada Rouge and regional partner Jazz Aviation — were disrupted Saturday through Monday, according to figures from tracking service FlightAware. The 1,965 flight delays and cancellations — over 52 per cent of scheduled flights — stand in contrast to num
Do you not understand that the supply (number of planes) is constant throughout the year, while the demand (number of fliers) fluctuates? If the supply enough planes for everyone to fly at peak times there’s going to be tooons of empty seats throughout the rest of the year. They’d then need to raise everyone’s ticket prices to pay for those extra empty planes, and people just aren’t willing to pay the extra price for the convenience.
Please explain to us why they are selling so many more seats than they have available.
Because often people don’t show up. If an airline only sold the exact number of seats on ever plane, their tickets would be more expensive, and people wouldn’t buy them.