Mr. Chair, we are seeing a number of instances where airlines make dubious claims about the reasons for flight cancellations. The reason is that if the cancellation is within the airline's control, on top of refunds, airlines also have to compensate passengers for the inconvenience. Given how poorly the APPR is worded and how it has been billed, airlines have a significant financial incentive to not be entirely forthright about the reasons for flight cancellations.
We have also seen airlines blame the pandemic for flight cancellations even though they happened a long time in advance. It was clearly a business decision. There are concerns about transparency. With the numbers, the current financial data and interest in travel, it would be predictable that only a fraction of those flights would operate.