Our Priorities
Cost-Competitiveness
The Cost of Air Travel
As in any competitive business, airlines set the price of their product - airline tickets - by balancing the intricacies of supply and demand for air travel with the costs they must incur to do business. Affordability and service ensure that Canada's airlines can attract travellers in a global marketplace in order to thrive.
While Canada's airlines have some choices regarding the costs they incur, in some key areas, the airlines have no choice at all, and often very little power to prevent cost increases.
Making Air Travel More Cost-competitive
The weak economy has presented enormous challenges to the airlines sector. These challenges have only aggravated pre-existing concerns for Canadian air carriers around growing domestic fiscal and regulatory burdens and subsidized competition from foreign carriers.
The NACC is urging the Government of Canada to immediately take action in order to reduce the unwarranted burden of taxes and fees faced by Canadian airlines and their passengers.
Fostering Cost-Competitive Air Travel
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians use airlines every day. Supporting and implementing an efficient operating and cost framework for Canada's air carriers is essential to the Canadian airline industry that is critical to the economic well-being of our communities.
Action: The NACC wants to work with governments, regulators and stakeholders to find solutions that will reduce infrastructure costs and the regulatory and tax burden throughout the aviation industry.
Canada's airlines are working towards:
- Tax fairness for airlines and passengers;
- New approaches to contain and reduce infrastructure costs, including sound public investment in financing of critical aviation infrastructure.