Turbulent Skies: The Air Canada Story Transportation played and continues to play significant roles in our lives as Canadians. Airplanes opened the skies to travel and our doors to the world, and Canada’s pride showed in its national airlines. CP Air long ago ceased operations; today, Air Canada recently dealt with its own serious financial difficulties. In these activities, students have the opportunity to examine the key events in the history of Air Canada; outline the key elements of a complaint report using Air Canada as a case study; identify criteria for success in business, create a rubric for judging that success, and use their rubric to analyze Air Canada’s success in a given area; create a diagram to show how job qualifications for certain airline-industry careers have changed, and compare and contrast Air Canada and Canadian National Railways and present their findings in a medium of their choice.
