Canadians are paying sky-high prices for flights – and merger could make it worse

Air Canada's planned C$520m purchase of Air Transat could be bad news for passengers who already pay double what Americans do

For most Canadians, flying from one corner of their country to the other can be a pricey endeavour - so expensive, in fact, that they could fly to Europe or Asia for nearly the same price.

Online travel agency Kiwi noted in its 2017 flight price index that Canadians pay more than twice the price Americans do for similar-distance domestic flights.