Air travel

It’s unlikely that foreign carriers would be interested in serving the domestic routes that are most in need of competition — those that serve places other than the country’s major cities — because those are not as profitable, said Keldon Bester, the executive director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project.

Keldon Bester, executive director at Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss opening up Canadian air travel to competition.
 

Canada should allow up to 100 per cent foreign ownership of domestic-only airlines in a bid to lower fares and boost flight options, the Competition Bureau says in a new report highlighting the country's "highly concentrated" aviation industry.

Keldon Bester and Vass Bednar discuss groceries to air travel to phone providers, many services in Canada are controlled by just a handful of companies. They look at why that lack of competition has been able to take hold, and what can be done to get a better deal for consumers.

“If we’d had these rules in place for the grocery study, we could have had a product by produce look at the margins, potentially,” said Bester. “In other jurisdictions, these market studies have formed the basis for real change.”