Canada and Brazil sign open-skies-like agreement
As expected, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office announced on August 8th that a new treaty bringing greater liberalization of air ties between Canada had been signed. Initially I assumed that this was an open skies agreement and that we might see an interesting flurry of aviation activity between the two countries. I did some...
Canada and Qatar sign an air transport agreement
Last week Qatar and Canada inked an air transport agreement that will allow carriers from each country to serve the other. Apparently. I say apparently because there has been precious little coverage of this in the Canadian media and no official Canadian government website (at the time of writing) has any information about this.
What Air Canada and WestJet can do to fight off Porter
Possible offsite check-in locations. In just three (or so) years Porter has gone from being a boutique operation to being a true contender. In fact they will soon offer more frequencies between Toronto and Ottawa, and Toronto and Montreal than either WestJet or Air Canada – every hour and every forty minutes respectively. Of...
Ridiculous fare difference on YYZ-ATL
I have a work commitment (Convergence 2010) that requires me to be in Atlanta between April 24th and April 27th. Given that Toronto and Atlanta are both big cities and hubs to major carriers I didn’t think it would be a problem sorting myself out with flights. Just a few minutes ago I logged onto...
Emirates fights for Canada – Chapter 2
Last year I blogged about Emirates' displeasure at not being given unlimited access to the Canadian market. In the time that has passed their stance has not changed. They remain adamant that they are being treated unfairly and that there are adequate reasons for Transport Canada to comply with their requests demands for greater access....
