Meinung: Turbulenzen voraus – Die wirklichen Auswirkungen der vorgeschlagenen Deregulierung des Kanadas Himmel
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-turbulence-ahead-the-real-impact-of-proposed-deregulation-of-canadas-skies
Meinung: Turbulenzen voraus – Die wirklichen Auswirkungen der vorgeschlagenen Deregulierung des Kanadas Himmel
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-turbulence-ahead-the-real-impact-of-proposed-deregulation-of-canadas-skies
2 Kommentare
This:
>The U.S. strictly prohibits foreign carriers from operating domestic routes, and other regions — like the European Union — only allow such access among member states. Opening our skies unilaterally would offer foreign carriers privileges they don’t extend to us.
>While we recognize that the airline industry needs reform, deregulating access to our domestic market isn’t reform. It’s a retreat.
>**There’s no level playing field — only a losing one**
>Canada’s aviation sector operates under complex constraints: vast geography, regional routes that are economically and logistically essential but unprofitable, and a regulatory environment already strained by fees and infrastructure gaps. The bureau’s proposal to allow foreign carriers to fly domestic routes — also known as cabotage — assumes all competitors arrive equally burdened.
>They do not.
>No major nation, including the U.S., offers Canada the same access. Foreign airlines would be invited to pick the most profitable routes without contributing to the rest of the network. That’s not competition. It’s market cherry-picking, and it undermines the carriers and workers who keep the full system running.
A truly sovereign country would never even entertain this idea. These demands are being made strictly for the benefit of Americans.
it seems the danger is. . . Canadian airlines are required to assume the burden of offering flights to uneconomical and/or remote areas of the vast and somewhat underpopulated parts of the country . while foreign carriers would not have this financial burden. they would pick the most profitable routes only.
if this eliminated all Canadian carriers, then nobody would fly to the remote/uneconomical routes. thereby cutting off virtually every Canadian who doesn’t live near enough to the big cities.
another thought is the lack of oversight currently experienced in the US. would we be safe?
lots of things to consider beyond the immediate dollars and sense of it.