just as an advice: Try it just after daychange!
If he is really located in Montreal he will have to get up early. 
Heck I'm in Cincinnati and thanks to working out of the house coupled with clinical insomnia (mixed with a little clinical OCD thanks to this effin' game) I've managed to snag gates at every 250k and larger airport in Europe except Vienna. I only started the game in February 1971 and think I've got some decent gates all things considered though this is my first ever round of AM - I'm still learning the in's and out's. (Dodo Air if you really care.)
Well, yes, I do agree, that month change is the way to go, but for a majority of us in the Western Hemisphere (anything past GMT +4), it comes extremly early for us this round (I'm still in bed then, you know, school stuffs), which dosn't bother me too much, since the last two rounds they were at hours when I was still awake, so I guess it's only fair to give someone on the other side of the world a chance to take advantage of the month change without having to stay up all night.
Then it's a competitive measure, but when a 8600+ member adds 8 freq with a 737-200ADV to a 3K pax airport that I am the only operator at, it's not about competition, that's stupid...
I agree with you there, most of the time they are also to quickly lease one, so a route like that for the most part will make nothing but a loss on this route after all the costs are considered. But the best I can do is try to counter it slightly with a Tu-134A (even though they have their fares so low at this point, it just makes more sense for them to just go into the negatives and eventually have the bankrupt script take care of the rest for me.)
