Northern parallel
An interview with Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu
Air links between Australia and Canada have existed since 1949 when Canadian Pacific Air Lines plied the 12,500km route between Vancouver and Sydney. Since then a succession of carriers, including the venerable CP Air, has operated services that have culminated in Air Canada operating today what is one of the world’s longest nonstop routes.
Australian Aviation spoke to Air Canada’s CEO Calin Rovinescu to explore the distinctive parallels between aviation in Canada and Australia, with some revealing similarities emerging around not just the analogous geographic and population dispersal, but airline competition and the industrial relations nexus.
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