Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
a minor distraction happened in 2001 called SEP11. The U.S. govt backed their airlines, the Canadian govt didn't. Incidentally, Canada 3000 had just taken over Royal & another Canadian carrier & had their biggest day of sales ever on SEP10, 2001. Of course sales dried up completely as they were mainly a leisure airline.
If you want to start talking about problems with airlines, just read the book
THE MEN WHO KILLED QF
QF have had 19 fatal crashes with 35 deaths. So much for the world safest airline.