Business Brief: Why we don’t have airline options

Air Canada says it is preparing for an “increasingly likely” strike or lockout as talks with its pilots union show no signs of a deal. The possibility of the country’s largest airliner shutting down flights to more than 110,000 passengers a day comes just three months after a strike at WestJet, the smaller of Canada’s domestic duopoly, stranded thousands across the country.

If I wanted to fly roundtrip this week from Toronto to my hometown of Fredericton, the cheapest options available to me are from Air Transat, Porter and Air Canada. How is it possible that consumers in this country have so little choice? It’s hardly a new question, but given we’ve already seen thousands of Canadians stranded by a strike at WestJet, the country’s only other major airline, it’s worth wondering why it’s still a question at all.

So American carriers won’t come here. Most small, cheap American carriers, like Frontier Airlines and Southwest, won’t fly here because they can’t charge a $40 fare if, you know, $160 is going to the airport, plus other stuff too. Like, it’s like $25 to go through customs per passenger. There are so many fees.Canada has a user-pay system, which means tax dollars don’t go toward paying for upgrades the airports want to make.

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