Originally Posted by
Ber2dca
What would stop a U.S. airline from buying up an operator in Canada, renaming it Delta Airlines Canada LLC dba Delta Airlines and then just offer flights like YYZ-MSP-YEG on that license.
Well, for one thing, Canadian law. Foreign companies can not own more than a certain percent of a Canadian carrier (I forget what it is exactly now, maybe 25%). So it would never go through in the first place.
In fact, IIRC, when there was a fight for CP before AC bought it, one of the issues with the competing bid was it was going to have too much of an ownership stake by AMR, the parent of AA at the time.