Opinion: Why is Ottawa still rationing foreign landings at our airports? — via fpcomment
Canada’s national men’s soccer team qualifying for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar was a huge achievement, given that we haven’t qualified for a World Cup since 1986. Although this is a great time in Canada’s sporting history, it won’t actually be easy for fans to go to Qatar to support their team in person, primarily because of outdated regulations that close our skies to international airline competition.
to land four flights in Canada per week. That’s obviously not ideal given the increase in demand for flights to and from Qatar.Article content This same arbitrary flight allocation applies to many other countries, among them many popular destinations for tourism and commerce. For example, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is also hard to get to and from. The UAE is only allowed sevenIf Canada were to open our skies and accept all the incoming flights the Canadian market could support,wouldn’t be Canadian travelers’ only flight option and the resulting increase in competition very likely would bring ticket prices down.
Opening Canada’s skies would also help diversify where foreign flights land. The UAE has its national carriers primarily fly into Toronto, because with only seven Canadian landings permitted per week, it makes sense to prioritize Pearson over the alternatives. But if that arbitrary limit were removed, flights could both arrive and depart from other Canadian cities where market demand is strong enough, though not as strong as in Toronto.
These limitations are in large part why Canada does not rank very well on economy-adjusted air-connectivity. According to the International Air Transport Association , we ranked 32nd globally, based on pre-pandemic 2019 figures. In fact, despite having world class cities like Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, we have no cities in the air-connectivity
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