🇨🇦 Air Canada Charges You More to Escape the Country They Ruined

As of April 6, Air Canada Vacations is adding a $50 per passenger fuel surcharge on flights to SUN destinations — Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, select U.S. spots — and all three major Canadian carriers are moving in the same direction, as travel agents confirmed this week. WestJet, Porter, and Air Transat are all implementing or signalling fuel-linked increases. Global fuel costs are real, no argument there.

But let us place this in context. Canadian households have spent years being squeezed by carbon taxes, inflation, housing costs, and grocery prices — all while the political class told them austerity was a moral virtue and net-zero was non-negotiable. Now the cost of briefly leaving the country for sunshine also goes up. Air Canada, a company that received $5.9 billion in pandemic bailouts from Canadian taxpayers, is not asking for sympathy here. It is simply adding another line to a bill that never seems to stop growing, for people who are already stretched to the limit.

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