When I say "AC dropped the ball and Westjet seized on the mistake", and your response is "no, AC intentionally handed the ball to Westjet with the direct intent that Westjet run it down the field", everyone involved has correctly understood and used the sports metaphors involved. It sounds like you've now decided after the fact that that's not what you meant, in which case you could simply say so instead of lashing out.

When AC says they dropped that route out of inability to staff it - and thus had to drop a profitable enterprise - then absent further evidence you and I have no reason to disbelieve that answer, and to insist malice without evidence is an irrational and emotional assumption indeed.

If Westjet saw AC drop that ball, and had the capacity to pick it up, they'd have been fools not to do so. Again, absent further evidence it's somewhere between irrational and defamatory to suggest the two conspired in this endeavour, so either present such evidence or knock it off.

If AC is here using "lack of capacity" as an excuse to avoid admitting that route was losing money, then the description of "anti-competitive" really doesn't apply to a market in which there isn't room for two actors to operate.