Canada’s Competition Watchdog Eyes Fairer Skies

Lynx Air and Canada Jetlines aircraft

Calgary-based Lynx Air and Ontario-based Canada Jetlines both stopped operating last year because of financial difficulties.

Credit: Top: CNW Group/Lynx Air. Bottom: joepriesaviation.net. Background: KZWW/Shutterstock.
In its 1978 annual report, Air Canada described “intensified competition” in the marketplace as the North American airline industry moved toward less regulation. “There is every indication that this trend will continue,” wrote then-CEO Claude Taylor. That year had been full of change: Airline...
Christine Boynton

Christine Boynton is a Senior Editor covering air transport in the Americas for Aviation Week Network.

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