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,;;E via NewsNet Thursday
y 17, 1990 Update 4: 18 Item #: 173
DKZNG BAN TO COST CANADIAN AIRLINES MILLIONS OF
LLARS
OTTAWA, MAY 17 (X -- CANADA'S SMCKING BAN ON
rERNATIONAL FLIGHTS WILL COST THE COUNTRY'S PRINCIPAL AIRLINE
-44 MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE THIS YEAR.
THE CALZARY-BASED CANADIAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL LTD. SAID
LOSS WILL INCLUDE 24 MILLION DOLLARS ON THE JAPAN-CANADA
JTE AND 16-20 MILLION DOLLARS FROM OTHER INTERNATIONAL ROUTES
rNLY TO SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE.
MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF ITS JAPAN-CANADA TRAFFIC ORIGINATES IN
PAY AND ABOUT 53 PERCENT OF THOSE PASSENGERS ARE SMOKERS. ON
3 ..r,'TtS TO FRANCE AND WEST GERMANY, SMOKERS MAKE UP ABOUT 22
RCENT.
THE COMPANY'S SPOKESMAN SAID THE EFFECT OF CANADA'S
REIGN-ROUTE SMOKING BAN "IS LIKE TAKING ON THE COMPETITION WI
r- ARM TIED BEHIND YOUR BACK, BECAUSE THE FOREIGN AIRLINES ARE
r BOUND BY THIS LEGISLATION."
HE SA-D A RECENT SURVEY OF ITS PACIFIC ROUTES INDICATES THERE
,!.L BE ;, 12 PERCENT NET L40SS OF ITS PASSENGERS AS THOSE WISHING
SMOKE WILL MOVE TO OTHER CARRIERS.
LAST WINTER, THE AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
I THAT THE INTERNATIONAL NON-SMOKING POLICY MIGHT COST A
TAL OF 100 MILLION DOLLARS IN LOST REVENUE A YEAR.
THE SMOKING BAN ON INTERNATIONAL ROUTES WILL TAKE EFFECT AS
DM JULY 1 THIS YEAR. SMOKING NOW IS BANNED ON ALL FLIGHTS OF
3S THAN SIX HCURS BY CANADIAN-OWNED AIRLINES.
THE Bz.N AFFECTS MAINLY AIR CANADA AND CANADIAN AIRLINES
TERNATIONAL, THE TWO PRINCIPAL MEMBERS OF THE AIR TRANSPORT
SOCIATI ON OF CANADA.
A-- CANADA, THE FIRST MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINE TO
@ WITH NON-SMOKING FLIGHTS FOUR YEARS AGO, SAID HOWEVER
AT THE POLICY HAS BEEN BENEFICIAL.
11WE FCUND OUR EXPERIENCE OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE,- AIR CANADA
OKESMAN BROCK STEWART SAID, "EVEN SOME SMOKERS SAID THEY
JOYED THE NON-SMOKING FLIGHTS."
THE AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA SAYS IT WILL ASK THE
'nRNTYENT TO NEGOTIATE AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO BAN
:)KING ON INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS, RATHER THAN PUTTING THE
NADIAN CARRIERS AT A DISADVANTAGE..END
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BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 14 April 1999