Airline CapacityRESOLVED

Sorenson v Air Canada et al

This concluded class action alleged that between January 1, 2010 and November 17, 2017 (the “Class Period”), senior executives and employees of the Defendants, engaged in communications, conversations, and attended meetings with each other to unlawfully conspire and/or agree to:

unreasonably enhance the prices of air travel services in Canada for travel between the United States of America (“USA”) and Canada;
fix, maintain, increase or control the price for the supply of tickets for air travel between the USA and Canada;
allocate sales, territories, customers or markets for the supply of air travel between the USA and Canada;
fix, maintain, control, or lessen the supply of and capacity for air travel services air travel between the USA and Canada;
monitor and enforce adherence to an agreed-upon pricing scheme;
restrain trade in the provision of air travel services; and
lessen unduly competition in the provision of air travel services between the USA and Canada

Class Members: All Canadian resident persons who purchased a ticket from any of the Defendants for air travel between Canada and the USA during the Class Period.

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CourtSupreme Court of British Columbia

Date FiledJuly 15, 2015

CO-COUNSEL Foreman & Company
Branch MacMaster LLP
Belleau Lapointe

On June 4, 2025, the Ontario Superior Court dismissed the plaintiff’s motion for certification. The certification decision is posted online at: https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2025/2025onsc3335/2025onsc3335.html

The certification decision was not appealed. On January 21, 2026, an order was approved by the Supreme Court of British Columbia to dismiss the BC action in its entirety. The parallel Ontario action was also dismissed by the Ontario Court. A motion to dismiss the parallel Federal Court claim has been filed. Upon receipt of the dismissal order from the Federal Court, there will be no further applications for class certification and the litigation is now concluded.

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