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Update On The Air Battle Between Canada/U.S.
by Paul on 09/14/09 at 08:48 PM ET
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from Susan Carey of the Wall Street Journal,
In a two-page order to Air Canada’s Washington lawyer, the DOT said the agency found the airline last year carried individuals on Bruins and Bucks charters who were transported within the U.S. and never carried across the border during the season, contrary to the DOT’s agreement with the airline.
Canada’s Minister of Transport, John Baird, fired back in a letter to Mr. LaHood demanding the DOT retract its decision, calling it “an unprecedented interference in the operations of the marketplace” and a “step backward” in the two nations’ history of collaboration.
This Canadian Transportation Agency retaliated by banning charter flights by U.S. carriers that require multiple stops within Canada. Miami Air International Inc., a U.S. charter carrier that has contracts with 10 NHL teams this season, had to arrange for a Canadian charter to make intra-Canada flights last weekend for the Florida Panthers, rather than carry the NHL team itself, said Ross Fischer, chief executive of Miami Air.
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