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Solloway is the president of Canada Jetlines Ltd., a Vancouver-based startup with intentions of drastically undercutting far bigger Canadian and U.S. competitors using the so-called ultra low-cost approach.
Jetlines will start out with routes in Western Canada, although Solloway wouldn’t say where. He wants to expand nationally, then to the United States and eventually select vacation spots. Less is less
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“The Canadian market is growing very well. The problem is Canadians are going [stateside] to take American carriers to their destination rather than Canadian carriers because of the high airfares we have in this country,” Solloway said.
But Jetlines, which plans to operate Airbus A319 airplanes, is embarking on a path others have tried and failed on before. united kingdom physical map Launched in 2001, Montreal’s JetsGo for example closed down abruptly four years later, in 2005.