MONTREAL - Air Canada
announced Tuesday it will
eliminate some of its daily
flights to major Canadian
and US. cities on Jan. 3.
The reductions followed a
recent statement by airline
president Claude Taylor that
the national air carrier was
experiencing the worst fiscal
quarter in its 45-year history.
Air Canada will eliminate
one daily return flight from
Toronto to Windsor;
Toronto to Sudbury and
Calgary to Vancouver.

The airline’ cited
“diminished load factors” as
& primary reason for its
decision to cutback flights
and begin to replace six DC-
8s and two 747s with smaller
aircraft due to lagging
passenger demand.

Six remaining DC-8s in the
airline’s fleet, scheduled to
be retired by May, would be
taken out of service two
months carly in = March,
spokesman Patrick Daley
said.

The airline has projected a
17 per cent decline in the
number of passengers for the
last three months of 1982.
Daley said a sharp drop was
anticipated in air travel
during the Christmas holiday
‘season,

Plans were shelved to
introduce four additional
trans-continental flights
early next year to Air
Canada’s existing 25 daily
flights, Daley said.

Selected flights to U.S.
cities would be cancelled
including: ‘Saturday service
between New York and
Montreal; Winnipeg and
Chicago; Chicago . and
Winnipeg; Dallas and
Toronto, and Toronto and
Dallas.

Return Sunday | service
between Cleveland = and
Toronto would also be cut.

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C3 - Sanday, December 26, 1982 - North Shore News