but it won't be a good thing for safety either
Tenuous at best!! C'mon!
Safety has nothing to do with increased competition. It is not in ANY airlines best business interests to have a poor safety record or operate unsafe equipment (not if you want to fly into North America or Europe anyway)
Without a major airline developing an airport as a hub with increasing global connections, an airport will not join the ranks of the gateway airports, and might not even become a regional hub
So Air Canada would want to develop YYZ (I alluded to this on another thread) to rival other global gateways. That would mean then offering competing services..as it is THEIR hub.
However out of YYZ they don't offer a direct flight to Dubai in competition. They don't offer any direct flights to India in competition.
They don't offer any direct flights to Pakistan in competition.
In order to develop and offer world wide connections Air Canada/YYZ has to step up to the plate.
We can talk about Emirates/Etihad/Qatar all day long and their unfair advantages/ low wages/ crap conditions etc etc.
You know what? Global business.....unfair is part of the daily vocabulary.
If you have the patriotic backing (of many on this debate) then put on a service to these destinations, develop YYZ into an airport that will siphon off traffic from elsewhere...and lo and behold you will be flying full of happy Canadians on their national carrier.
Where is that option at the moment?
Or are we waiting till Air Canada has it's business model in order?
Time to resort to some underhand practices again guys!