Once staunchly opposed to high speed rail in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor, the airline has jumped on board Ottawa’s plan to invest billions in Via’s high-frequency rail proposal
Previous attempts to bring high-speed passenger rail service to the Toronto- Quebec City corridor inevitably ran up against opposition from the country’s airlines – none more so than Air Canada
After its 1988 privatization, Air Canada experienced a string of losses that threatened its very survival. The red ink totalled more than $1-billion between 1990 and 1993. Air Canada’s main rival at the time, Canadian Airlines, was in even worse financial shape, leading Ottawa to eventually engineer a merger of the two carriers in 2000.
The airline’s change of heart could clear the tracks for what Via HFR, the unit set up to oversee the proposal, calls the largest infrastructure project in recent Canadian history.two weeks ago that it had joined one of the three consortiums that last month responded to Via’s request for proposals to design, build and operate the 1,000-kilometre-long HFR network aimed at slashing travel times by a third in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor.
Air Canada last year introduced code-sharing services with France’s national passenger railway, SCNF, enabling customers flying into Paris’s Charles-de-Gaulle airport to purchase a single air-rail ticket for travel from CDG to 22 French cities on SCNF’s high-speed rail network. Air Canada also offers similar intermodal travel from airports in Frankfurt and Munich in partnership with Germany’s Deutsche Bahn.
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