The Canary Island Archipelago, consisting of seven larger islands, is currently mainly served through a north-easterly bottleneck by European low-cost Charter Airlines. Several European charter airlines fly leisure travelers to their vacation destination or to feed their hubs in England, France, Germany or Spain.
Direct connections between the Canary Islands and the United States have all it takes to become lucrative routes -as they are basically connecting very large catchment areas with millions of inhabitants to the natural wonders of the Canary Islands (and beyond!).
Therefore, we at CanAm believe our new routes have the potential of becoming highly utilized as a direct result of the large catchment areas they connect.
These connections to and from the US were last served by the unforgotten Pan Am Airways in their high time -and of course utilizing Boeing 747’s! The name –CanAm– is of course reminiscenct of the great Pan Am, but mainly signifies the link between the Canary Islands and the Americas; – and the other emotional link is of course the use of Boeing 747s.
Next, taking into account that the Canary Islands are currently home to 2.17 Million people and with Las Palmas on Gran Canaria being the ninth largest city in Spain and a metropolis of 450.000 people, we see a huge potential to generate ample outbound passenger- and cargo traffic to connect with the Americas; -in addition to the incoming traffic of American tourists.