Ottawa approves WestJet Airlines' acquisition of Sunwing

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In a statement, Transport Canada said it considered the delays experienced by travellers last summer, as well as the customer service and communications challenges by Sunwing during the recent holiday season, when it made its decision.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

Among the approval conditions laid out by the government, WestJet must extend Sunwing vacation package offerings to five new Canadian cities, maintain capacity on routes most affected by the merger and increase regional connectivity.Ottawa assembles roundtable to figure out how to load grain ships when it rains in Vancouver

It said WestJet also needs to improve Sunwing’s baggage handling and maintain a vacations business head office in the Toronto area and a regional office in the Montreal area for a minimum of five years. It must also increase net employment by 20 per cent over three years in the Toronto office, as well as gradually end Sunwing’s seasonal leasing practice to protect Canadian jobs. Sunwing, a privately owned travel company based in Toronto, currently employs approximately 2,200 people.

Goodbye affordable fares

Fantastic news for Air Canada. Because destroying competition in Canadian airlines will make it all the easier for the remaining 2 carriers to fix prices.

Let’s hope it includes a clause to make SunwingVacay pay damages owing to all who filed in Small Claims Court for flights travellers booked on other airlines to get home after tens of thousands were left stranded by Sunwing SunWingAction. Disgraceful!

Excellent news! What this country needs is less competition and more power for our beloved oligarchs. Decades of hard work went into rendering our competition law regime weak and ineffectual 🥰

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