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The business aviation community on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border welcomed recent action by the Canadian Federal Court to overturn on appeal a position by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) that would have had extremely adverse ramifications for companies using business aviation to conduct routine flights between the two countries.
The CTA had ruled that a U.S. company was providing transportation to the public, car rental in miami florida and would be required to provide the compliance and certifications of a scheduled airline carrier. The NBAA Member Company involved in the court's decision, Borgata Hotel Casino Spa in Atlantic City, NJ, was conducting cross-border flights between car rental in miami florida the U.S. and Canada in 2008 and 2009 when the CTA issued its adverse ruling.
The ruling would have, in effect, interpreted that flights carrying anyone other than direct employees of a given company would be treated by the Canadian authorities as an airline, car rental in miami florida and subject to CTA-compliance requirements for airlines that would be prohibitive for a typical company using its own airplane for business purposes. After several lengthy appeal rounds, the Canadian high court overturned the CTA's position last month.
Both the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) supported the legal case challenging the CTA's position, arguing that such a regulatory approach would be devastating car rental in miami florida to business aviation, not only from a cost and compliance standpoint, but also because the ruling failed to recognize that companies have long relied on their airplanes as a critical asset for transporting non-company personnel – including business partners, car rental in miami florida clients, consultants, prospective customers and others – from distant locations to their places of business in support of their companies' overall business objectives.
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Bolen also noted that applying the CTA's type of policy to business aviation could have unintended economic consequences for trade between the two countries. In addition to sharing the longest car rental in miami florida border in the world, at more than 5,500 miles, Canada and the United States are also top trading partners. With this close geographic and economic relationship, many business aircraft operators from both countries conduct frequent cross-border flights.