• SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I’ll be flying for the first time in nearly 5 years later this month. It has a connecting flight. I feel like I’m going to spend a bunch of time in an airport.

  • Colrok@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Air Canada has been cancelling and delaying flights like crazy this year. Walking through the airports I can’t count the number of times I overheard “Never booking AC again”. Schedules changing ruins entire holidays or business trips…

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      2 years ago

      Maybe yet another cash infusion from the government will help them remember.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        The privatization of Air Canada was a mistake

        In fact, the privatization of most Canadian crown corporations was a mistake

        From a government perspective, connecting remote areas has economic advantages through improved trade, better access to services, and eventually increased economic growth/more tax revenue. For private corporations, none of these advantages materialize.

        That’s why China is able to afford a trillion dollars of debt to build HSR when nobody else can: it allows them to push economic growth away from tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) and towards tier 2 and tier 3 cities.