JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)

Interesting that AC has reduced their flights in Sask. WestJet has a solid business model and is successful. AC can't survive without the restrictive policies the feds have in place in Canada.

Air travel policy in Canada is a joke...

Yes but as soon as westjet starts loosing money on these routes they pack up and pull out, just ask the fine people of Timmins, Hamilton and other smaller eastcoast cities. On a competitive priced route westjet just pulls out if they loose money. The Gov't has handcuffed AC by 1) forcing it to service many money loosing cities in Canada and 2) by not allowing it to price its fares so it can compete on them, if westjet charges $395.00 for a one way flight to Montreal from Toronto AC can't go and price its one-way fares within 20% of them. Same goes on flights from Winnipeg to Saskatoon AC is forced by the Gov't to price higher. Transat and Skyservice are allowed to price closer to WJ only because neither one has a large domestic market outside the "triangles".

Gov't should stop trying to regulate an industry they deregulated over a decade ago. Why do you think the Gov't forced AC to buy Cail? it was their final bail-out.

Snow...

Jetsgo was trying to hard to get in to the market that they undersold themselves. But at the same time they cut in to Westjets bottom line. I believe this was the first quarter/year that they lost $$; So westjets glad to see them go.

The issue at hamilton was they didn't have enough room to be a huge ppl carrier so they wanted to move in to the new terminal at Pearson. Well, funny thing....the airport authority committe has a bunch of AirCan ppl on it, so they limited westjet to the furthest corners of the terminals and charged them handsomely. Westjet wasn't about to pay fees at two terminals....so pulled out!

As they should. I sure as hell would. If nobody in Timmins wants my services, why would I bleed money there?

When the feds take the cuffs off AC they'll be pulling out of money-losing routes faster than you can say "lying Liberal scumbag patronage".

Fascinating. I actually am going to make this trip sometime in early April, so I picked April 10 there, April 12 back (It's a press check, so I don't know the actual dates yet) and just went to the two airlines' web sites.

I can fly return Stoon to Winnipeg for $144 +$139 Air Canada Tango. $283 return.

Westjet quotes me $164 +$139 return. Gee, $20 more.

Yep, Air Canada is sure being handcuffed by the gummit, they is.

Forced to charge less than their competition. Tough times all round. Can't imagine how they survive.

Shouldn't that be JetsNoGo?

Gerry

SkyService, now there is a joke. Flew them once and never again. Microscopic seats, with wide aisles. The wide aisles are because they turn the entire airplane into a duty free shop, the stews are all salesmen and saleswomen, they even sell you the earphones so that you can watch the movie. These are the same free earphones that AirCanada toss in the garbage when you are through with them. If you weigh more than 99 pounds, you won't fit the seats. If you are taller than 5'6" your legs won't fit between your seat and the one in front.

Dispite all the compaints about AirCanada it is the best airline that I have traveled on in the past few years, probably United is next.

What if the Gov't said you had to service it??? like AC has too.

Hence the reason for Jazz getting more jets to fly more domestic routes, don't forget AC owns many routes at least twice already.

Thats not on Tango..they dont exsist anymore, the pricing is still ineffect until fall 2005 (or so), and your flying on an RJ not a nice cushy 737..

Try again.. I see both ways as $139 .. the $164 is for a more preferd flight departure time. I can do the same AC flight costs $184 and $179 each way same dates just better times to travel.

YYZ to YUL june 13 to 20 1 adult economy seat Tango (who's pricing ends soon) $148 @ 700 am. Return $148 @ 700 am. Same days a time for WJ $88 to and $98 from.

Snow...

My understanding is that those insurance policies are in case the travel agent goes under, not the companies they book.

Mike

I was using the same departure time for both airlines.

When was this!! IIRC the employees gave up billions in just wages

Snow...

">> the $164 is for a more preferd

So was I.. sorry too say the figures you used were for different times

Snow

Forced buy out thanks to the Liberals

Aside from CAIL getting billions and billions in bail out money no other airline has, don't even think jetsgo will, but it was Michel LeBlanc;s fourth or fifth airline he has put under.

Never happen, cause all the other airlines would be out as well. Besides 'mericans don't want to allow Canadian carriers flying from US city to US city carrying passengers.

Snow...

Typical Canadian-style *corporate* *welfare* bums just like Bombardier and all the other "free" enterprise losers with their hands out. I don't even want to get started on all the French-Canadian advertising-company/Liberal thieves.

If a down-on-his-luck guy takes government money (usually a few hundred bucks), everybody calls him a bum. If a corporation takes money (usually in the millions) from the same government, their taxpaying stockholders are delighted. They don't see the sameness of those handouts and that it ALL comes from the same pockets.

Gerry < rant mode off >

Canadian airways couldn't survive in the US anyhow. The dollar is the disadvantage and I'm sure they'd but some 'international carrier' taxes on it.... Who knows....ticket prices are going up now anyhow!

Most international carrier agreements are bilateral in nature. If US carriers get access to certain routes in Canada, then Canadian carriers (if there are any left) will have access to similar US routes.

Negotiated in the style of the softwood agreement? LOL

Like to know what routes were preferential treatment? AC had the east and europe CAIL had the west including Asia, middle east and Oz.

What 1/2 billion forgiveness??