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Finance committee Yes, it's most frustrating also because time is of the essence here.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee For all modes of transport...but aviation has a particularly high fixed cost to meet, and they're just not doing it right now.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee Yes, for a number of reasons but consumer behaviour is going to be key in this, and opening up of the borders and so on; these are all factors that play into it. In fact, the International Air Transport Association, IATA, thinks it's going to take until 2023 before we get back to
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee My first thought is that you're right. A recent poll conducted by one of our members indicates that 75% of Canadians say that they're going to be nervous about flying until there is a vaccine. That's really bad news for our industry. What the government needs to do is work with
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee I don't know for sure, but it's a significant number.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee Yes, they're the regional carriers and the smaller carriers. There are some large carriers too, like Porter and Sunwing and so on.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee There have been no plans that are designed for aviation and the high costs that we have as far as the industry goes. People have gone to the regular plans that are offered to everybody else.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee We've written three letters and also supporting emails to the Prime Minister and numerous ministers of Parliament, including the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Transport. No, we've not received an acknowledgement.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee Airlines are divided into categories depending on size.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee There are roughly 45 airlines in Canada.
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee Good afternoon. My name is John McKenna, and I am the president of the Air Transport Association of Canada. I thank you for inviting me to appear before this committee. I want to switch to French for one second. For technical reasons, I will speak in English, but I will be hap
May 26th, 2020Committee meeting
John McKenna
Transport committee I think you're on the wrong track. I said that one of the models considered would allow airports to have different prices. There was no discussion about the possibility of having different prices at different airports. This may be part of the negotiations, I don't know, but it's
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
John McKenna
Transport committee Good afternoon. My name is John McKenna. I'm President of the Air Transport Association of Canada. ATAC has represented Canada's commercial air transport industry since 1934. We have approximately 180 members engaged in all levels of commercial aviation operating in every regi
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee Well, I think they're going to take it province by province. We asked that very question, and we did not get an answer to that.
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
John McKenna
Finance committee I can't give you the example of Kelowna. Maybe Daniel could help me there.
September 20th, 2017Committee meeting
John McKenna