I’m tired of all this winning.
Air Canada has announced a temporary suspension of flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York’s John F Kennedy airport, citing rising fuel prices.
The move comes amid growing concerns that airlines worldwide may scale back services as aviation fuel costs climb in the wake of the US and Israel’s ongoing war with Iran, which entered a fragile ceasefire earlier in April. Although Iran announced on Friday that the strait of Hormuz had reopened, helping ease oil prices, fuel costs remain significantly elevated after weeks of disruption.
Separately on Friday, Spirit Airlines has asked the US federal government for hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funding to offset a surge in fuel costs, the Air Current industry website reported, citing unnamed sources. Spirit did not immediately return a request for comment.
“Jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict, affecting some lower profitability routes and flights which now are no longer economically feasible,” Air Canada said in a statement on Friday. “Schedule adjustments including some frequency reductions are being made in response.”
There’s only 600km between Montreal and NYC, and no ocean to cross. It’s absolutely possible to make the trip by bus, or train (if there’s such a thing in NA).
Trains? What are these “trains” of which you speak? Admittedly, the Northeast Corridor has something aspiring to be high-speed rail, but the line only runs up the U.S. coast. I was taking ICEs in the '90s across countries in Europe. We simply don’t have that here.
by bus, or train (if there’s such a thing in NA)
I’m aware train infrastructure in limited in NA, hence the “if”. Let’s hope the inability to operate some flights due to fuel cost motivates expansion of modern train infrastructure in the area.
That’ll be a useful solution in several years, not tomorrow.
Yes, assuming (local) government realize modern train infrastructure is useful and decides to start building more right now.
