Airlines an exception to Canada’s traditional advantage in transportation
While airlines provide rapid transport across Canada’s enormous distances, spreading their high-fixed costs
across a small and spread-out customer base has proved difficult for business firms to sustain, outside of
niche markets such as bush planes.
From the days the voyageurs traversed the continent by canoe, by necessity Canada’s immense territory has forced us to develop a superior transportation network. In the 19th century the Cunard Line operating out of Halifax was a leader in transatlantic ocean voyages. Two of the five leading rail...
