‘Massive reputational risk’: former Air Canada exec, strategists slam feds for sluggish response to expected travel surge in airports

‘The idea that that pent-up demand wouldn’t cause a travel surge is really, I think, out of the question,’ says NDP MP Taylor Bachrach, his party’s transportation critic.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, pictured during a press conference on June 14, when the government outlined the lifting of vaccine mandates for domestic travellers, transportation workers and federal employees.
Ongoing and highly-publicized delays in Canada’s international airports should have been foreseen by the federal government, according to a former Air Canada executive, and that the delays have set the stage for “massive reputational risk” for Canada as both a tourist destination and a connect...

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