I'm not going to pretend it's been an easy journey. It hasn't, but we are still here. We've done it without any specific support from the government, with the exception of the RATI funding of $11 million we received, and that went directly to encouraging regional connections. We didn't get the $270 million that Porter got, the $370 million that Sunwing got, the $800 million that Transat got, or the $5 billion that Air Canada got.
We have been funded privately, and it's very tough, but again, we do it by being very focused on our business model, so we know what we're about. We're about low-cost, low-fare, affordable travel for all Canadians and being true to that model. It's a model that's worked in jurisdictions around the world. We believe there's nothing about Canada that makes it so different that an ultra-low-cost model shouldn't work here.
I hear a lot about how it's different in Canada. I'm here to tell you it's not. Every country is nuanced, but Australia is a big country, like Canada. It has 28 million people. Most of the people live within 100 miles of the coastline. It has half a dozen big cities, and it has 53 aircraft and Jetstar as an ultra-low-cost carrier. Chile is a long, thin country. It has four or five big cities. It has 17 million people, and it has three airlines. Two of them are low-cost carriers.
There's nothing specific about Canada or Canadians to say that they don't deserve affordable travel. They do deserve affordable travel, and Flair's here to deliver it.