First Air / Canadian North
So now that it appears 7F and 5T may actually succeed in their umpteenth attempt to merge, it seems as good an occasion as any to start an all-purpose thread for northern Canada’s two least favourite airlines and/or the offspring of their unholy union.
Does anyone else fly these two a lot? What’s your take on the merger? General public consensus in Nunavut is that it’s bad news for everybody who lives here and will lead to higher fares and fewer flights on many routes. I could maybe see at least a better schedule on the “bigger” routes with jet service like YOW-YFB and YFB-YRT-YZF rather than the current stupid set-up where both carriers have their flights at the same time. (The one bright side of the short-lived 7F/5T codeshare disaster back in 2015 was having an afternoon/evening YOW-YFB-YOW flight.) But smaller communities will probably be shafted.