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Re: Cheap Tickets YEG to Ukraine? Posted on: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:03:25 +0000 (UTC)

Kiraly schrieb:

>>The damn Canadian government is supporting ridiculously high price
>>fixing, to discourage Canadians from travelling abroad!!
>
>
> It's tempting to make the government the scapegoat for this, but
> international airfares are not fixed by the government. They are fixed
> by IATA, which airlines voluntarily join. The whole point of IATA is
> to keep internaional fares, and the airlines' profits, artificially
> high.

But the Canadian government, or a government agency, is also involved.
See http://www.cta-otc.gc.ca/air-aerien/tariffs/html/fatariff_e.html

Don't know exactly what their powers are.

Regards, ULF