Bug Smasher,{Ah memories of the Beech 18!} Government flying club? Your a bit behind the times old chap, Canada has followed the American privitization god, ie "its not a vital part of our national infrastructure, its only for the big cities and the shareholders , the hell with small town Canada, they can do with a piston twin flown by two kids making $20,000 a year". Air Canada was privitized many moons ago, we are well down the road in the "race to the bottom".using the American comuters as a model.