Originally Posted by
Ace Cdn
They are a public company and should be able to do what they like. The only reason this is news is somone in Montreal is kicking up a fuss like a spoiled child. You didn't hear boo when they closed the reservations office in Calgary and moved those jobs elsewhere.
Air Canada, although private, is still covered by the Air Canada Act that mandates that their head office be in Montreal, so it's a little different.
As a national carrier it's head office being in the country's most bilingual city makes sense, but being in the city of their busiest hub also makes sense. Tough one, but not sure how you fit Calgary's offices shrinking into the Toronto-Montreal situation. If they said they were randomly moving to Halifax, I would draw that comparison.
Like it or not, they're still a national carrier and required to service routes that produce losses but otherwise Canadians couldn't get to. Comes with the government backed security, right?
Originally Posted by
Ancien Maestro
Quebec government actually helped my family pay to move out here.. helping my parents to give us an english education.. How's that for irony?
Ha! That's funny in retrospect, but in the 70s and 80s, who would've thought Toronto would steal the title of Canada's economic engine. I'm sure many of us Francophones are still surprised.