Not to help Blastor's anti Westjet stand. It looks like they had there hand in the cookie jar again!
The case of alleged corporate espionage in Canada's airline industry took a strange twist Tuesday when the head of Jetsgo Corp. asked Air Canada to provide copies of “confidential and highly sensitive” documents relating to its business found in the garbage of former WestJet Airlines Ltd. executive Mark Hill.
In a letter sent to Air Canada CEO Robert Milton and WestJet CEO Clive Beddoe, Jetsgo chief executive officer Michel Leblanc said evidence filed with an Ontario court alleges that investigators hired by Air Canada found shredded documents in the garbage and recycling outside Mr. Hill's home in Victoria's wealthy Oak Bay district.
When the shredded confidential documents, found on either March 22 or April 5, 2004, were reconstructed, they were found to be related not only to Air Canada's operations but also to Jetsgo's, including a document titled “Jetsgo, November 2003 Summary of domestic load L/F (Load Factors),” Mr. Leblanc said.
“As you know, details of Jetsgo's load factors are confidential, highly sensitive and proprietary,” Mr. Leblanc said, describing the alleged discovery of Jetsgo documents in Mr. Hill's home as highly disturbing.
“We understand that these documents were not filed with the Court because of the confidential nature of Jetsgo's information. In these circumstances, we ask that you provide us with a copy of the reconstructed Jetsgo documents at this time,” he said.
Mr. Leblanc said he hopes Mr. Milton would respond to his request in a “timely fashion,” adding that Jetsgo needed to “understand how this happened” and that an “examination” of the reconstructed documents will help with that process.
“We are all competitors, but this appears to be a fundamental issue of fair play,” Mr. Leblanc said in the letter to Mr. Milton.
Mr. Leblanc's request is the latest turn in a spy-versus-spy story that began this spring when insolvent Montreal-based carrier Air Canada accused its chief rival Calgary-based WestJet of corporate espionage.
According to court documents, Air Canada believes Mr. Hill, a WestJet co-founder who has since resigned from the discount airline, used a former Air Canada employee's access to a special reservation website for the employees and retirees of Air Canada to steal confidential flight information.
Air Canada alleges that WestJet has misused this confidential material to identify and target its rival's most profitable flights and times, plan its expansion into new routes, optimize its revenue on specific routes, and adopt pricing strategies intended to force its rival out of markets.
Air Canada made the discovery after it hired two private investigators to rifle through garbage outside Mr. Hill's home. The carrier has launched a lawsuit and is seeking $220-million in compensation and damages from WestJet.
For its part, WestJet has countered that the information obtained from Air Canada's website was neither confidential nor useful to the airline.
Mr. Hill has filed a $5-million countersuit against Air Canada, accusing the airline of hiring investigators to invade his privacy by snooping through his garbage for confidential documents.
Jetsgo is looking into Westjet's espionage
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Michel Leblanc and espionage what a joke!
If you ever see ML, just ask him about the Air Canada terminal
used at Intair and Inter-Canadian by ops in CYUL......They used
it just for wxx
...AND THAT LADY COMMING EVERYMORNING
TO CHECKS THE COMPETION LOADS IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM!
used at Intair and Inter-Canadian by ops in CYUL......They used
it just for wxx
...AND THAT LADY COMMING EVERYMORNINGTO CHECKS THE COMPETION LOADS IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM!
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Well, well, well....Surprised? Not realy. Amazed? Yes. I didn't think they be that stupid!
Westjetters fasten your seatbelts, you're going for a roller coaster ride like you have never experienced before. How 'bout them stock now?
My boss kept telling us to watch our back around them. Guess he was right all along! I'll have to pay more attention to his "warning" in the future.
Ya know, they might be spying on us when we're sitting on the "trone". Counting how many "square" we use, how much we spend on ass-wipe....
Westjetters fasten your seatbelts, you're going for a roller coaster ride like you have never experienced before. How 'bout them stock now?
My boss kept telling us to watch our back around them. Guess he was right all along! I'll have to pay more attention to his "warning" in the future.
Ya know, they might be spying on us when we're sitting on the "trone". Counting how many "square" we use, how much we spend on ass-wipe....
