Originally Posted by
nomess
Canada loves taxes, and they love increasing them. Basically they just starve new entrants from oxygen. Conducting a return flight in a domestic country should not have one liable for $200 in taxes. It’s just madness.
Taxes have nothing to do with "starving new entrants" - it's a level playing field. No matter the airline, AC, WS... everyone pays them.
The bigger problem is that Canada is a big country with a small dispersed population. Overall demand is much lower, and average stage lengths are longer than in the USA, Asia or Europe. You can't sell 180 seats and fly 10 sectors/aircraft a day. JetsGo, CanJet and now Enerjet/Lynx keep proving the same point.