Impact of the New US-Canada Aviation Agreement at Its Third Anniversary.

摘要

The U.S.-Canada Aviation Agreement was signed on February 24, 1995. Under the agreement, Canadian airlines gained the right to serve any city in the United States. U.S. airlines also gained unlimited access to Canadian cities with the exception of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. For these three cities, new U.S. airline services are being phased in over a transition period. The phase in provisions for Montreal and Vancouver expired on the second anniversary of the new aviation agreement (February 24, 1997) and the restrictions for Toronto will be removed on the third anniversary (February 24, 1998). Since the agreement was signed, total US-Canada passenger traffic has increased 37.2 percent (12.1 million to 16.6 million). In the three years prior to the agreement, traffic grew 4.3 percent. Further In 1994, there were 54 nonstop markets with annual traffic of more than 50,000 passengers. In 1997, the number of markets with that level of traffic increased to 77 markets an increase of 42.6 percent. The report presents highlights of the agreement, and uses charts to show the benefits gained by its enactment.