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Airlines are getting so unreliable. Flair airlines kept passengers on the tarmac for 10 hours with no food and water onboard the other day as well.

Corporations has lost focus, while the idea is that you are supposed to bring in money all the time, you also should want customers to be happy with your product so you have repeat customers.

[–] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only Canada’s largest and oldest airline could have predicted Canada’s annual high travel periods…

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe yet another cash infusion from the government will help them remember.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The privatization of Air Canada was a mistake

In fact, the privatization of most Canadian crown corporations was a mistake

From a government perspective, connecting remote areas has economic advantages through improved trade, better access to services, and eventually increased economic growth/more tax revenue. For private corporations, none of these advantages materialize.

That's why China is able to afford a trillion dollars of debt to build HSR when nobody else can: it allows them to push economic growth away from tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) and towards tier 2 and tier 3 cities.