Airlines platforms
Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.Conservative
- Provide conditional support to airlines.
- Pass legislation implementing stronger protection for passengers based on the EU system, incl. entitlement to full refunds, not vouchers.
• Canada’s Conservatives will help the airline sector rebuild and get Canadian pilots, flight attendants, ground crews, mechanics, and all the other vital airline employees back to work.
° Support will be conditional on airlines agreeing to provide refunds to customers whose flights they cancelled, ending layoffs, restoring regional routes, allowing travel agents to maintain commissions collected for cancelled travel, and banning executive bonuses until the support is repaid.
• We will also pass legislation implementing strong protection of passengers’ rights based on the EU system. Among other things, this will make it clear that passengers are entitled to full refunds - not vouchers - when an airline cancels a flight and doesn’t offer an alternative.
— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18