Originally Posted by Ben Lipsey

AC doesn't place an emotional 'value' on an airport or city. We don't 'hate' YVR and we don't 'love' YYZ or YUL. I obviously can't disclose why we decided to add/cut capacity to certain markets, but suffice it to say that it was for competitive reasons - i.e. we saw more potential elsewhere...

Originally Posted by Napstolean

With all due respect I don't think that's entirely true; certainly our friends in YEG would disagree with headlines in the news like "Air Canada dropped London flight over spat with Edmonton airport":

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...port-1.2223651

Originally Posted by Ben Lipsey

Sensationalist journalism, nothing more.

Originally Posted by yul36

After reading the link regardless if you call it a difference or opinion or a spat as in the headline, Air Canada and the Airport authority do not see eye to eye.
The take is that AC is saying to YEG, you went out and drummed up business, that (may) hurt us so we will punish you. However, I don't blame the airline for cutting service if they are not making money, shareholders would expect that course of action. Dragging up the Iceland air service is a bit of a red herring. I doubt that Iceland air is costing Air Canada a lot of passengers since they are going after the low hanging fruit. It will take a lot of convincing that their hub in Reykjavik is any threat to your hub in LHR.


On the Journalism:

Both sides of the story were represented. The readers can make up their own mind. According to the text comment was sought by the media organizations, the airline did not or would not comment. The article contained a letter to the airport authority from Air Canada that backed up their allegations. It looks like the media organizations ( print and On-Line ) quoted from that letter in absence of a formal reply from AC.