Just to chime in with my 2 cents...
Canadians, being some of the most heavily taxed in the world also pay heavy taxes to fly.
Forget a bailout, why don't they just reduce taxes and get more people to fly? If we had more competition, less taxation, we could be flying almost as cheap as Americans and Europeans fly. All my US travel, I fly Delta out of YYC and connect through SEA, or SLC to my final destination, the flights are half or even less than that what it costs to fly with Canadian airlines. Flying from US to US is dirt cheap, I book business class tickets for less than what you pay in Canada domestically to do the same distance in economy. I know that there's a population difference that factors in to price, but a big chunk is taxation and the structure of it.
And get this... You make flying more cheaper, it would stimulate business' to grow and encourage companies to branch out and service larger areas in Canada. I for one have to factor this in when dealing with prospects in other parts of Canada, and I shake my head in disappointment with how much more I could be doing if we paid what Americans pay to fly.
But hey, this is what Canadians voted for: They voted for sky high taxes. They voted for out of control spending and borrowing. They voted to rely on the government to survive. They voted to be one paycheck away from insolvency, and to rely on something like CERB when a disaster hit. And they voted for CERB.
I just SMH at this, the problems facing Canadians.
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