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Canjet discount may fly this summer after all
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yes that was nicely left out wasn’t it… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> We’ve had discussions at work about this. Doesn’t it seem (kind of just > a little) like things are advancing to the way they were in the "ol > days" We will have one major carrier and a bunch of small ones. It won’t > be CP, Wardair, Nordair, etc. but instead Westjet, Canjet, Canada 3000, > etc. Just a thought… > Of course it is the same. And this is why Collenette is plain stupid. He did > not fix the problem of overcapacity and ability of a dominant carrier to bully > the others and hurt them. He only reset the situation to 0, and will watch the > same thing grow into the same problem again. You’ll note that the new monopoly > law doesn’t do anything about capacity controls.
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> We’ve had discussions at work about this. Doesn’t it seem (kind of just > a little) like things are advancing to the way they were in the "ol > days" We will have one major carrier and a bunch of small ones. It won’t > be CP, Wardair, Nordair, etc. but instead Westjet, Canjet, Canada 3000, > etc. Just a thought…
Of course it is the same. And this is why Collenette is plain stupid. He did not fix the problem of overcapacity and ability of a dominant carrier to bully the others and hurt them. He only reset the situation to 0, and will watch the same thing grow into the same problem again. You’ll note that the new monopoly law doesn’t do anything about capacity controls.
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> We’ve had discussions at work about this. Doesn’t it seem (kind of just > a little) like things are advancing to the way they were in the "ol > days" We will have one major carrier and a bunch of small ones. It won’t > be CP, Wardair, Nordair, etc. but instead Westjet, Canjet, Canada 3000, > etc. Just a thought…
Exactly. David Collenette’s new motto is "Back to the Future" Glorious… Mike
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> So is everybody gunning for AC? Guess so since its the only big player > left in town. I’ve actually heard that WestJet is doing quite well in the > western half of the country and is slowly making its way east. Sounds > similar to Southwest.
Similar ? Can you spell "clone" ? Perky FAs, single plane type (737) in the fleet ? Flies to cheaper airports ? I have a feeling that both will eventually do a code-sharing and FF program thing together. It is a darn shame that Westjet won’t be using Pearson at Toronto. They’d make quite a killing between Montreal-Toronto with lower fares than AC.
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> CanJet discount airline to fly this > summer > ALISON AULD > HALIFAX (CP) – The CanJet discount airline will start flying this summer, with > destinations likely to be all major airports between Winnipeg and St. John’s, > Nfld., the > company announced Thursday.
So is everybody gunning for AC? Guess so since its the only big player left in town. I’ve actually heard that WestJet is doing quite well in the western half of the country and is slowly making its way east. Sounds similar to Southwest. Rich
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We’ve had discussions at work about this. Doesn’t it seem (kind of just a little) like things are advancing to the way they were in the "ol days" We will have one major carrier and a bunch of small ones. It won’t be CP, Wardair, Nordair, etc. but instead Westjet, Canjet, Canada 3000, etc. Just a thought… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> So is everybody gunning for AC? Guess so since its the only big player > left in town. I’ve actually heard that WestJet is doing quite well in the > western half of the country and is slowly making its way east. Sounds > similar to Southwest. > Similar ? > Can you spell "clone" ? Perky FAs, single plane type (737) in the fleet ? > Flies to cheaper airports ? I have a feeling that both will eventually do a > code-sharing and FF program thing together. > It is a darn shame that Westjet won’t be using Pearson at Toronto. They’d make > quite a killing between Montreal-Toronto with lower fares than AC.
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CanJet discount airline to fly this summer ALISON AULD HALIFAX (CP) – The CanJet discount airline will start flying this summer, with destinations likely to be all major airports between Winnipeg and St. John’s, Nfld., the company announced Thursday. IMP, the company which owns CanJet, had earlier cancelled plans to launch the low-cost carrier out of Hamilton. "I’m confident we can offer strong competition to existing airlines at very competitive prices," IMP chairman Ken Rowe said in a news release Thursday. He did not say where the airline would be based or when it would start operating, but has indicated that it might be Halifax or Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. Rowe used to operate Air Atlantic – a regional airline that used to connect Canadian Airlines flights in the Maritimes – out of the Halifax airport. Unconfirmed reports have said Rowe intends to do business out of Halifax initially with two Boeing 737s and build up to a fleet of about 20 aircraft. The head of the Halifax airport says negotiations have been held with IMP, but that nothing has been confirmed. "Staff have talked to them probably two or three times over the last two weeks," Dennis Rodgers said in an interview. "But nothing has been signed." Rowe temporarily shelved plans to launch the airline out of Hamilton in February after several airlines announced they would start offering similar services. Air Canada also plans to start a new discount airline and has hooked up with tiny Air Georgian Ltd. of Oro Station, Ont., which will fly 18-seat turboprops from Ontario to six small cities in the United States. WestJet Airlines, a discount operator based in Calgary, is also flying discount charters out of Hamilton. Rowe said he earlier suspended plans because he wanted to see if federal Transport Minister David Collenette would toughen up regulations governing the aviation industry after smaller operators complained that Air Canada has become too dominant and is making it impossible to compete. "We have a juggernaut dominating the airlines that is able to crush any competition at will," Rowe said earlier. Air Canada, the remaining national airline, took over Canadian Airlines for $92 million in January, but will not integrate it until Canadian has reached a deal with its creditors. Air Canada was prevented by the Competition Bureau from starting up a discount airline until September 2001 if an Atlantic Canadian carrier offered a similar no-frills service. Now that CanJet plans to offer the service, Air Canada might have to delay its discount carrier.