Template talk:Airlines of Canada

Dispute Discussion
Okay, lets open a dispute discussion on this topic then, see if we can come to some sort of an agreement. The basis of the dispute is that Spinboy claims that helicopter operators are not airlines, whereas I argue that they are. The cause of this dispute was my request for HeliJet to be added to the template.

My arguments for it being an airline.
 * The Dictionary.com definition of an airline states. "1 A system for scheduled air transport of passengers and freight. 2 A business providing a system of scheduled air transport." I personally believe that not all helicopter operators are airlines, but the company at the core of the dispute is.
 * The IATA is an international airline organisation that serves as a representative of airlines and they give out airlines codes to airlines. Not all helicopter operators have an IATA code (and I believe not all of them should) but the company in question (HeliJet) does have an IATA Airline designation code, something only given to airlines.
 * The ICAO is a US organsation that also gives out airline codes. ICAO gives out 3 letter codes to Airlines, and again the company at the centre of the dispute has an ICAO airline code.
 * HeliJet operates codeshare agreements with Alaska Air and Horizon Air in order to provide some legs of general booked airline flights. If they were not an airline they would not be allowed to perform such codesharing arrangements but they have been accpeted by the regulatory authorities.
 * HeliJet is accepted and referenced as an airline by the aviation and airline industry periodicals.
 * HeliJet is listed on airline flight websites as an airline []
 * HeliJet is accepted as an airline by editors of Wikipedia. Looking up it's entry on Wikipedia shows that it is in several airline categories and is mentioned in the article as an airline. These edits have been done by several different people, they are not the work of one individual.
 * HeliJet appears in the Airlines category on Yahoo.
 * The Vancouver Board of Trade (Vancouver is where HeliJet is based) acknowledges it as an airline []
 * When the question was raised on the Wikiprojects:Airlines page it was stated by the project leader that he could see no reason why it wouldn't be considered an airline. []
 * A simple Google (or any other search engine search) will show it listed as an airline on multiple official and company sites.

Ben W Bell 20:15, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * My reasons are stated above, I'm not going to rehash them. I maintain in the simplest form that they aren't an airline, and don't qualify to be on the template. --[[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] Spinboy 20:22, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well internationally accepted definitions and regulatory bodies disagree with you on this. Ben W Bell 06:55, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Of course Helijet is an airline, they offer scheduled air service. I can't see how anyone can reasonably argue against that. By the way, they have in the past they flew a Beechcraft 1900D plane between Campbell River and Seattle. -- Webgeer 20:59, 30 September 2005 (UTC) (I wanted to add that I don't see the point of excluding them.  If you do exclude them and then do you make another template for Helicopter airlines in Canada and include only them? Seems kind of pointless. -- Webgeer 21:06, 30 September 2005 (UTC))

From what I see, there is a lot of evidence that an airline is any sort of air transport and that a scheduled helicopter operator is an airline. There does not seem to be any evidence that specifically states that it would not be an airline. Zhatt 20:37, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Likewise, I'm in the helicopter-service-can-be-airlines camp. -The Tom 22:59, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

On the basis of these comments over the last week I'm removing the Disputed line from the template. Ben W Bell 07:04, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Can someone add BCWest air
Can someone please add BCWest Air to the catagory. Its a new airline as of 2007. Thanks - Feb. 9 /08

What qualifies for a major airline?
Like First Air flies to about the same amount of destinations as CanJet and has three times the fleet. What's the qualifier? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.74.168.93 (talk) 17:39, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure what the qualifier is. You might want a better example than First Air. They both have a similar size fleet but CanJet looks to have more destinations, although FAB will charter to most anywhere. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 17:49, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind I clicked on the wrong airline I was looking at Air Transat. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 17:52, 24 November 2011 (UTC)