Do you remember Jetlink? Then you might remember this story in Travelweek Bulletin.
The headline for this edition of ‘It Happened This Week’ is: ‘Jetlink debts leap to $3 million’
As the story notes, the Jetlink collapse left a debt of close to $1 million to Quebecair, and the overall cost to the industry when this story ran was nearing $3 million.
Ontario’s then-travel registrar, Doug Caven, told Travelweek Bulletin his office planned to launch an investigation into why Quebecair was owed so much by the collapsed tour operator. “We will be looking at pursuing this legally if Quebecair broke federal regulations by allowing this credit to Jetlink because the fund is going to have to pay out because of it.”
Caven also told Travelweek Bulletin that the total cost to the Ontario compensation fund was difficult to estimate because Jetlink’s records were in “such a mess”. He added it would be held to the $1 million mark first estimated by his office, if the airlines involved assumed some of the liability.
Did the headline appear in Travelweek Bulletin in 1975, 1985 or 2000?
Here’s a hint: For much of the 1970s Travelweek was still known as CTM Weekly Bulletin. And by the 2000s it had been streamlined to Travelweek.
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