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Today, WestJet’s CEO Ed Sims publicly expressed his displeasure regarding the price hikes his airline has had to deal with from Canadian Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), Nav Canada. The comments came during Eurocontrol’s Aviation StraightTalk event where Sims talked about the difficulties of running an airline in the Canadian marketplace, among a number of other topics.
Sims is calling for greater collaboration and greater transparency from Nav Canada. Photo: Getty Images
The ‘scandalous’ price hike
It was around May of 2020 that the organization in charge of managing Canada’s commercial airspace, Nav Canada, announced it would be increasing customer service charges by an average of 29.5% on overall rate levels effective September 1st, 2020. The ANSP said that this was being done only after having