Royal Jordanian Airlines and Commercial Flights

Air Canada: That works out to roughly $1,436 a person – a sum that is higher than fares available for tickets on ordinary commercial flights offered by some of the same airlines that are chartering flights for the government, according to Globe and Mail. This week, for example, Royal Jordanian Airlines was offering fares of 563 Jordanian dinar to fly from Amman to Toronto, or just less than $1,100, and tickets from Amman to Montreal were selling for 681 dinar, or about $1,300. That means the total cost of trans-Atlantic flights is now more than $32-million. Air Canada Amman-to-Montreal tickets were available for $1,004. A spokesman for Public Services and Procurement Canada, Pierre-Alain Bujold, said in an e-mail that given the urgency and scope of the Syrian refugee resettlement effort, the government decided chartering flights was the safest way of bringing most of the 25,000 to Canada as quickly as possible. But it would probably be impossible to buy 23,000 commercial one-way tickets from Jordan to Canada in the rush three-month period of the airlift. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.