Alaska Airlines trims Kelowna-Seattle route to winter only from year-round service
“Our load factors during the peak summer season to Kelowna were significantly lower than the rest of our system,” said Alaska Airlines. “Flights to that region of B.C. remain very popular during the winter.”Samaddar says the news reduces direct connectivity to other American airports or tropical destinations.
“Having the network into Seattle certainly was very, very important to our customers in terms of getting into the U.S. in a fast and easy way,” he said.“This is going to certainly make it more difficult because you’re going to have to connect through another Canadian airport to then get south. We certainly will have our work cut out for us in terms of working with other airline partners to see if we can fill that void.
Currently, Samaddar says YLW is at 85 per cent of overall seat capacity when compared to 2019. He says the airport could be at 100 per cent in the second quarter of 2023. “But you have these drawbacks that occur as well,” said Samaddar, “where you have airlines pulling in and out of the market.”
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