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Airlines an exception to Canada’s traditional advantage in transportation

While airlines provide rapid transport across Canada’s enormous distances, spreading their high-fixed costs across a small and spread-out customer base has proved difficult for business firms to sustain, outside of niche markets such as bush planes.

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BY PHILIP CROSS
October 22, 2018

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Airlines an exception to Canada’s traditional advantage in transportation

While airlines provide rapid transport across Canada’s enormous distances, spreading their high-fixed costs across a small and spread-out customer base has proved difficult for business firms to sustain, outside of niche markets such as bush planes.

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Airlines an exception to Canada’s traditional advantage in transportation

While airlines provide rapid transport across Canada’s enormous distances, spreading their high-fixed costs across a small and spread-out customer base has proved difficult for business firms to sustain, outside of niche markets such as bush planes.

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