🇨🇦 Flights within Canada are getting more expensive in 2026, except for one destination

Domestic airfares up 70 per cent this year, with Vancouver routes jumping 116 per cent from $191 to $413. Calgary, Montreal, Toronto all surging. International flights climbing too. The official excuse is Middle East instability and fuel costs, but conveniently ignored is the endless parade of carbon taxes, regulatory bloat, and airport infrastructure fees that have turned Canadian aviation into a captive market where duopolies extract record margins while the government pretends it cares about affordability.

Trudeau spent years making energy expensive by design, kneecapping domestic production, and layering climate levies onto every input cost. Now Canadians pay some of the highest domestic airfares in the developed world to fly within their own borders. The only reprieve is Halifax, down 10 per cent, probably because nobody wants to go there. This is what managed decline looks like when ideology trumps competitiveness.

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