'The airline cemetery:' Why low-cost airlines don't work in Canada

Watch: John Gradek says duopoly of Air Canada and WestJet Airlines kills competition

John Gradek, faculty lecturer, supply networks at Montreal’s McGill University, talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about how the Canadian Competition Bureau is looking into the Canadian airline industry. He discusses the duopoly of Air Canada and WestJet Airlines and why low-cost carriers don’t work in Canada.

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