flights to and from Mon- 
     
     cton to Charlottetown 
     
     each day, but both~ the 
     
     flights £2 Moncton leave 
     
     late in the evening, 
     
     8:00 pm and 10:00 pm, 
     
     too late to make connec- 
     
     tions anywhere. And both 
     
     flights from Moncton 
     
     leave that airport early 
     
     in the morning, 6:45 am 
     
     and 8:30 am., too_ear1y 
     
     for a traveller to have 
     
     arrived there by air 
     
     from any other destin— 
     
     ation. 
     
    

    
     In fact, the awkward 
     
     timing of these flights 
     
     means that anyone wishing 
     
     to spend a shopping or 
     
     business day in Moncton 
     
    
   
   
    
     must spend two overnights 
     
    
   
   
    
     there before he can get 
     
     a return flight to t e 
     
    
   
   
    
     Island! 
     
     of all Canadian cities 
     
     and provinces, Charlotte— 
     
     town and the whole of 
     
     Prince Edward Island are 
     
     the only Canadian capital 
     
     city and province from 
     
     which there is no direct 
     
     (toll-free telephone) 
     
     access_to information on 
     
     Air Canada routes, fares 
     
     and services! Eastern 
     
     Provincial provides only 
     
     7a connection to the nat— 
     
     ional airlines and a tra- 
     
     veller from P.E.I. must 
     
     use one of the larger 
     
     airlines if he is to go 
     
     beyond the Atlantic area 
     
     or Montreal. Yet from 
     
     this province no free 
     
     direct information on any 
     
     such further service, 
     
     connections, rates of 
     
     routings is available to 
     
     the traveller. He is ad- 
     
     vised to use the services 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     of EPA or of a local 
     
     travel agent, and altho— 
     
     ugh these sources are no 
     
     doubt well-meaning and 
     
     well-intentibned, they 
     
     are frequently and recur- 
     
     rently unaware, mistaken, 
     
     and incorrect. ‘ 
     
    

    
     It is not the intention 
     
     of this brief to blame 
     
     these sources of inform- 
     
     ation; the blame lies 
     
     full-square on Air Canada 
     
     and the Canadian Trans— 
     
     port Commission for fail- 
     
     ing to provide a whole 
     
     Canadian Province with 
     
     direct toll-free tele- 
     
     phone access to the per— 
     
     sonnel of the national 
     
     airline and through them 
     
     to the computer—links 
     
     which they have immed-\ 
     
     iately available. It is 
     
     a national scandal that 
     
     hundreds of foreign cit- 
     
     ies and entire states 
     
     of our neighbour to the 
     
     south have direct toll— 
     
     free telephone access to 
     
     Air Canada services, 
     
     while a Canadian prov- 
     
     ince has none at all! 
     
    

    
     The airport terminal 
     
     and runway facilities at 
     
     Charlottetown are also, 
     
     grossly disproportional 
     
     in a negative way to the 
     
     buildings and services 
     
     supplied at correspond— 
     
     ing Canadian cities. The 
     
     passenger through—traffic 
     
     in Charlottetown is gr- 
     
     eater than that at Fred— 
     
     ericton. Both are prov- 
     
     incial capitals. Yet the 
     
     facilities available.at 
     
     Charlottetown's airport 
     
     are greatly inferior. The 
     
     air connections to Fred- 
     
     ericton are poor and, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     cumbersome. The connect- 
     
     ions to Newfoundland 
     
    
   
   
    
     are very expensive and 
     
     even worse. . 
     
    

    
     The cumulative effect 
     
     of these and other dis— 
     
     parities and discrimin- 
     
     atory policies makes 
     
     Prince Edward Islanders 
     
     "Second Class Citizens" 
     
     in the Canadian context. 
     
    
   
   
    
     RECOMMENDATIONS: 
     
    

    
     1) That provisions be 
     
     made that residents of 
     
     Prince Edward Island and 
     
     their visitors immead- 
     
     iately receive at least 
     
     the same benefits on air 
     
     fare rates and policies 
     
     as residents of other 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     parts of Canada. 
     
     2) In view of the spec- 
     
     ial transportational req— 
     
     uirements arising from 
     
     the island nature of the 
     
     province, air fare rates 
     
     and services to P.E.I. 
     
     shOuld discriminate in 
     
     favour of Island resid- 
     
     ents and their visitors. 
     
     3) Direct access without 
     
     charge to the inform- 
     
     ation and reservation 
     
    

    
     . services available thr— 
     
     ough Air Canada should 
     
     be provided in Prince 
     
     Edward Island immead- 
     
     iately. 
     
     4) Facilities and ser- 
     
     vices should be provided 
     
     at Charlottetown airport 
     
     commensurate with the 
     
     flow of traffic, the num— 
     
     ber of passengers, and 
     
     the provincial capital 
     
     status of the city. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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