Federal regulators are promising a thorough review of a potential merger between Canadian North and

Federal regulators are promising a thorough review of a potential merger between Canadian North and First Air and the impact it would have on competition and airfares walt disney world travel packages in the remote northern communities the carriers serve.
In addition to Canadian North and First Air, there are only a handful of  smaller operators providing service to communities like Inuvik, Cambridge Bay, and Baker Lake. Even larger centres, like Iqaluit, lack adequate and affordable walt disney world travel packages air service.
A typical round-trip airfare between Yellowknife and Inuvik, for example, costs roughly $1,600. But a similar round-trip flight between Edmonton and Yellowknife, which is  about 100 kilometres shorter, costs  $328, in part, because both WestJet Airlines Ltd. and Air Canada  compete on that route.
“Government walt disney world travel packages and resource sector business travellers are meat and potatoes passengers, and they don’t have many alternatives short of private charter,” said Robert Kokonis, president of AirTrav Inc., a Toronto-based airline-consulting firm.
“An example of overlap could be a bread-and-butter route of both carriers – Ottawa walt disney world travel packages to Iqaluit. Both airlines offer either daily or nearly daily service. I would expect some rationalization on that route for a start,” Mr. Kokonis said.
Makivik Corp. and NorTerra Inc., the parent companies walt disney world travel packages of First Air and Canadian North respectively, announced last week they were entering talks to merge the operations of the two northern airlines. The merger of equals would see shareholders in each company own the newly formed Northern walt disney world travel packages airline equally after combining both businesses, the companies said.
The companies said on the merger website they launched last Friday they believed combining operations would  ‘create a stronger, more sustainable business, provide better service walt disney world travel packages to customers and lead to new economic walt disney world travel packages development opportunities in the north.”
walt disney world travel packages Ms. Beauchesne said the goal would be to determine walt disney world travel packages whether the merger would result in a substantial lessening or prevention of competition. The bureau will consider many  aspects of the proposed transaction, including the level of economic concentration and the market shares of the companies involved, she said.
The bureau will be consulting with a wide range of industry participants, such as suppliers, competitors, industry associations, customers, and industry experts, to determine whether that would be the case, she said.
Delia Chesworth, director of 27 airports in the Northwest walt disney world travel packages Territories, said she was taking walt disney world travel packages a “wait-and-see” approach to the merger talks before taking a stance on the impact it would have competition and prices.
“Until we hear exactly what the merger entails, it’s pretty much a wait-and-see,” she said. “If you’ve got two planes flying half full, neither walt disney world travel packages is probably doing well, right. So, it could be a trade off.”