[martin14]

Lemmy wrote:

The bottom line is that if you want to fly on Air Canada to Dubai, you have to fly from Toronto to Frankfurt or London and wait for a connection. If you want to fly Air Emirates from Toronto to Dubai, you can fly direct. Air Emirates offers a better service. It hurts all Canadians, in the long run, when the Canadian government acts in a protectionist manner against a superior foreign competitor. Canada is wrong on this one and if the UAE were to take this case to the WTO for a ruling, we'd surely lose.

Once again, our so-called laissez-faire conservative Harper is acting like a protectionist liberal.

But does that go to say that Air Canada is allowed to fly direct, and chooses not to ?

[Lemmy]

martin14 wrote:

But does that go to say that Air Canada is allowed to fly direct, and chooses not to ?

Yes. The Air Emirates flights are flying at 98% capacity. If AC wants to compete, they should improve their service instead of crying to Uncle Stevie for some thuggery.