Originally Posted by
CZAMFlyer
The answer may be found within AC's own corporate responsibility page: "Air Canada needs the communities where it operates and where its employees, customers and other stakeholders live and work to be healthy, financially strong and dynamic." A preference for Canadian products - within fiscal reason - might include not just wine, but anything the airline sources to maintain its operations.
Carbonated water - the pinnacle of ripoff products. The only thing more ridiculous than a wine snob is a gassy water snob.
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CZAMFlyer
Talk about being a misguided neighbourhood snob - AC flies Boeing & Airbus (and soon the A220 partly made in Northern Ireland), purchases fuel around the world, with much of the fuel for Eastern Canadian operations is imported, while plenty of other sourcing such as ground equipment, etc is sourced globally too. Wine is just another product that even when the grapes comes from Cdn sources and processed on Cdn soil, plenty of the equipment and know-how comes from everywhere else.
https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd...lmprt-eng.html
Of course I live in the real world of global supply chains - but possibly folks should lobby Ottawa to protect the Cdn wine industry by forcing federally regulated airlines to ONLY buy from Cdn sources too? Oh yeah, that policy would be contrary to NAFTA and I still can remember all the whining back then when the Cdn wineries complained that NAFTA would destroy their industry, but it would appear that competition has caused Cdn wineries to step up their game.
ps...wine is between 80-85% water, and the carbonated kind is called sparkling wine...