Air Canada must be REALLY hurting these days…

Nov.18, 2008 in Rants |

In a recent poston TreeHugger, Lloyd Alter blogs about his less than positive experience on Canada’s largest airline. It seems that in this era of companies looking to adopt simple green initiatives, Air Canada still needs to ding it’s customers that little extra…just because it can. Enjoy

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