"By observing that Air Canada's loads out of Toronto to Montreal and Ottawa remained steady despite WestJet's presence in Hamilton, WestJet was able to determine that its Hamilton-based flights were not attracting Air Canada's Toronto customers," Mr. Brewer said, "and therefore, moved to Toronto."
Isn't Westjet also setting up a code-sharing or similar agreement with Air Transat? If so, wouldn't it make sense to operate out of a larger airport that can accomodate both? Wasn't another part of the reason they weren't operating out of Toronto previously because Air Canada had virtually all of the gates to itself?
generally one at a time, and staying within Canada.
Are they not allowed to expand outside of Canada? Without Canada 3000, there must somewhat of a market for charter type flights. They had even started looking at outfitting 737s for flying to Cuba in 2002.
This still doesn't excuse stealing confidential data (why would you have it accessible over the internet doesn't make sense either), but the reasons given above seem pretty weak.
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