Air Canada T.AC

Buying customers

[lb1temporary]

Thursday, my son and 2 friends, bought Air Canada tickets.

Direct 14 days round trip tickets Montreal-Tokyo (Narita) for may 2021. Ticket are cancellables for any reason and he will receive a credit in exchange.

He pays 484 C$ (taxes and fees included) and he received 20 000 miles in bonus, (almost a North American round trip free).

He watched the prices for more than a month and he took advantage of special prices.

I watched this morning and the same flights are at 691 $. Not sure that at that prices, once fees and taxes excluded, there’s enough money to pay the fuel.

Air Canada desesperately needs customers and it makes big investments to grab reservations and bring back confidence in air travel.

[fraudhunter]

Modern booking systems have very intelligent algorithmic and AI like abilities that looks within the business, and also right across the industry, across other networks in developing moment by moment pricing. Dynamic pricing that will turn on a dime, as it works on its own agenda. As a secondary comment, businesses like Transat would not have survived even in the good times because they failed to

[filoux004]

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[lb1temporary]

You always explain your points and allow the discussion to move forward, so, even if I disagree sometimes with you, I will respond respecfully to your post:  1- Modern booking systems have very intelligent algorithmic and AI like abilities that looks within the business, and also right across the industry, across other networks in developing moment by moment pricing. Dynamic pricing that

[fraudhunter]

Your misunderstanding is acute. Booking systems will keep adjusting pricing throughout the ‘long period’. May 2921 is a good ways away.  And to say that CleanCare+ and other AP promotions aren’t working.. because AC gave a 80% off yoy guidance tells me that either you are genuinely unaware, or that the posts that you and one of your cohorts ‘logic’ writes are simply self serving. AC gave

[fraudhunter]

May 2021 will do :))))))

[Seahawk001]

It may or may not be the perfect entry point but regardless of when you enter you'll be rewarded from this point forward, that's kind of a sleep at night stock I enjoy holding :) 

[lb1temporary]

Booking system is ajusting pricing over a long period, and a flight is booked with a wide range of prices. Fine. But when this system makes an offer largely under the costs that means something. Its not the result of a brillant strategy. its the result of a rought market. The 80% cut for the Q3 could be only strategic ?  I agree that there's a strategic message to the gouvernment but the

[fraudhunter]

Well, of course the facts are true. 80% yoy decline, but depending on Domestic Only means that the uptake from AEROPLAN and CleanCare+ is working. Since you use examples of your son buying a ticket, let me use my personal example. Though I am an AEROPLAN member since 1993, over the years my points from business travel have accumulated to very large numbers. Until last year, every time I would try

[thesheet]

i have a story about aeroplan. when i lived in Mexico, the retired ex-pats gave me an earful when i told them i worked for air canada,(nevermind it was Air Ontario that i worked for). one person tried to use aeroplan. He called them on one phone and called an AC agent-friend on the other. The AP agent said the only way to get from Toronto to Mexico is to fly to Chicago, OVERNIGHT, then take

[filoux004]

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[JetTechYYZ]

I have heard of layoff recalls of Maintenance personnel in August to support reactivating stored aircraft.

[filoux004]

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[TheGrapeOne]

Case in point this guy has been playing these games for years lol   He is either paid to post or is holding bags of $50 shares and htis is all he can think of to try and get someof his cash back 24/7 pump

[allbeefhooked]

I watched this morning and the same flights are at 691 $. Not sure that at that prices, once fees and taxes excluded, there’s enough money to pay the fuel. Air Canada desesperately needs customers and it makes big investments to grab reservations and bring back confidence in air travel.    IB1,    In June 2015 I booked my son Air Canada Toronto to Narita.  I booked about

[lb1temporary]

I guess the question for you is, are you really basing your decision to buy Air Canada shares on seat sales prices???    Easy question. Sure, I will not base my decision on seat sales price. I based my decision on perspectives backed by multiple facts, good and\or bad. The 691 $ I mentioned and that you highlighted is low but it’s the ‘’historic’’ low price offered by airlines for a