Warum Ottawa die Landebahn für Fluggesellschaften ausländischer Fluggesellschaften räumen sollte – thestar.com
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I’m conflicted on this honestly.
Canada’s airlines, broadly, suck. They are too expensive and the service is crummy.
However, unless everyone in the country is happy driving to YYZ, YUL, YYC, or YVR everytime they catch a flight somewhere, Canadian airlines do need to be somewhat protected.
Canadian airlines aren’t making any money servicing Deer Lake or Fort St. John. The money makers are the transatlantic and transpacific flights. Those would be directly competing with international competitors who don’t need to service the middle of nowhere.
So…. Yes, in theory. But do it properly or it will become another hollowing out of Canadian business to foreign competitors.
Absolutely not. I don’t get how these people can’t wrap their heads around the idea that Canada is a massive country with a tiny population. There’s only a few places that have the population density that can really support these companies. Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Edmonton, Calgary, etc… outside of the big cities there’s more land than people.
Operating on a large scale is expensive, shocking I know. Big planes require big money, more people, more repairs, larger supply chains and resources. But sure, let’s make a sector of our economy that is one of the smallest profit margin sectors have to compete with conglomerates from down south that are 6x larger than them in every way.
I’m sure they won’t just operate the profitable routes at an unsustainably low rate fuelled by money they make on other routes and absolutely demolish our homegrown companies that support and employ Canadians in all sectors. That doesn’t sound like predatory behaviour whatsoever! They would never!
Oh wait, they have done it before and they’ll do it again. You want cheaper air fare? Then subsidize the cost of airport infrastructure and costs like they do in the states. Otherwise, get used to having a few large companies that dominate the market because that’s what our population can sustain.
Domestic airlines work well in Australia, why can we have the same? The have similar population and landmass, they also allow airlines to be foreign owned. Virgin Australia for example
I do think that allowing more foreign owned companies to operate in Canada is good as it will drive down the cost of transatlantic/Pacific flights and flights to major cities.
I also would support the creation of a crown corporation airline designed for servicing smaller communities where the big airlines won’t go.
All international airports in Canada already allow foreign airlines to operate there.
What more do they want?
We should just re-nationalize Air Canada at this point and accept that it will need to run at a loss to provide adequate passenger service to the entire country.
Canada should not grant foreign airlines the right to carry passengers between two domestic points in Canada and the reason is abundantly clear to anyone who has been involved in aviation or anyone who has been a keen observer of it for a few years.
Simply put foreign airlines will cherry pick the highest value domestic routes and serve those. All other routes will suffer in either reduced frequency or higher prices. Canadian Airlines use the feed from smaller communities to feed their transcontinental and international networks. If this feed is diverted to foreign carriers it will have a negative effect on other smaller routes.
Also by giving up control over our domestic markets we are at the mercy of foreign (read American) carriers. In many regions airlines are vital to our communities, American owned airlines care nothing about serving any community that is not on Air Canada’s transcontinental network.
Airline economics are all about scale. The bigger you are (miles and hours flown, fleet size, passengers carried) the lower your costs. That is why we had airline consolidation years ago and network alliances. The bigger airlines bought the smaller ones, or put them out of business. Air Canada itself used to do it all the time, remember Roots Air, Canada 3000, Canjet, Jetsgo, Nationair, Zip, Zoom, Greyhound Air, Lynx Air, etc.
From a consumer point of view it might lower prices very slightly, on some main routes. But overall it will increase fares to most destinations in Canada, and it will have a negative effect on out national transportation infrastructure.