Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

> Travel agents in Canada have an insurance fund to cover this kind of
> thing. If you booked a JetsGo flight through a travel agent you'll get
> a refund. As well, those who booked through agents would have had a
> number to call for assistance booking alternate flights when JetsGo
> flipped the switch and had the best chance of getting a seat on another
> flight.

Depends on the province you live in, I beleive BC, ONT, QUE all have these
funds.

> But people want the "best price" rather than the "best value". And
> let's be serious about JetsGo... $1 flights? Across Canada?

It cost more then $1 to put your sorry a$$ in that seat. Even WestJet is
under cutting many of its seats.


Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont. if they want to fly the money making
triangles.

I for one am glad to see jetsgo turn to jestgone, I feel for the employees
and their families but as they said to me and many of my co-workers a few
short months ago "too bad, if your CEO was smarter you would be smiling to"
reference to their logo.

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
<snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.

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...

--
"The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and B,
sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
<snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.

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...

--
"The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and B,
sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
<snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.

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...

--
"The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and B,
sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

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...

"Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
news:120320051714083271%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balders tone.ca...
> In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
> <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
>> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
>> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.
>
> 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...
>
> --
> "The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and
> B,
> sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

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...

"Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
news:120320051714083271%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balders tone.ca...
> In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
> <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
>> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
>> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.
>
> 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...
>
> --
> "The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and
> B,
> sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

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...

"Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
news:120320051714083271%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balders tone.ca...
> In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
> <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
>> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force the
>> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.
>
> 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...
>
> --
> "The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and
> B,
> sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

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!



"Snow" <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:52LYd.36904$fW4.1087097@news20.bellglobal.com ...
> 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
> $395.00 for a one way flight to Montreal from Toronto AC can't go and
> price its one-way fares within 20% of them. Same goes on flights from
> Winnipeg to Saskatoon AC is forced by the Gov't to price higher. Transat
> and Skyservice are allowed to price closer to WJ only because neither one
> has a large domestic market outside the "triangles".
>
> Gov't should stop trying to regulate an industry they deregulated over a
> decade ago. Why do you think the Gov't forced AC to buy Cail? it was
> their final bail-out.
>
> Snow...
>
> "Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
> news:120320051714083271%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balders tone.ca...
>> In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
>> <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
>>> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force
>>> the
>>> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> --
>> "The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and
>> B,
>> sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows
>
>

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

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!



"Snow" <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:52LYd.36904$fW4.1087097@news20.bellglobal.com ...
> 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
> $395.00 for a one way flight to Montreal from Toronto AC can't go and
> price its one-way fares within 20% of them. Same goes on flights from
> Winnipeg to Saskatoon AC is forced by the Gov't to price higher. Transat
> and Skyservice are allowed to price closer to WJ only because neither one
> has a large domestic market outside the "triangles".
>
> Gov't should stop trying to regulate an industry they deregulated over a
> decade ago. Why do you think the Gov't forced AC to buy Cail? it was
> their final bail-out.
>
> Snow...
>
> "Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
> news:120320051714083271%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balders tone.ca...
>> In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
>> <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
>>> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force
>>> the
>>> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> --
>> "The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and
>> B,
>> sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows
>
>

Re: JetsGo Scumbags (Canadian Discount Airline gone under)
 

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!



"Snow" <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:52LYd.36904$fW4.1087097@news20.bellglobal.com ...
> 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
> $395.00 for a one way flight to Montreal from Toronto AC can't go and
> price its one-way fares within 20% of them. Same goes on flights from
> Winnipeg to Saskatoon AC is forced by the Gov't to price higher. Transat
> and Skyservice are allowed to price closer to WJ only because neither one
> has a large domestic market outside the "triangles".
>
> Gov't should stop trying to regulate an industry they deregulated over a
> decade ago. Why do you think the Gov't forced AC to buy Cail? it was
> their final bail-out.
>
> Snow...
>
> "Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
> news:120320051714083271%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balders tone.ca...
>> In article <rdJYd.36516$fW4.1073045@news20.bellglobal.com>, Snow
>> <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Lets hope the Goverment will now let AC take the gloves off.. time to
>>> change some of these rules and level the playing field. Either force
>>> the
>>> others to fly to buttf%ck Sask and Ont.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> --
>> "The thing about saying the wrong words is that A, I don't notice it, and
>> B,
>> sometimes orange water gibbon bucket and plastic." -- Mr. Burrows
>
>