<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Shareholder:
Same way people thought for the final 6-months of its life that CP was no longer in business, so its flights went out mostly empty and check-in staff had little to do, while AC check-ins were swamped and flights were always full.
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I suspect the above had more to do with AC's incompetence during the merger than anything else.