Hopper

On Friday, Air Canada and WestJet announced that they severed ties with travel app Hopper. The news comes after a widespread report detailing how the airfare prediction app was launching "secret fares" to their users. Hopper was apparently offering seats for a discount of up to 35 percent, which got them in hot water with...

Two of Canada's largest airlines, Air Canada and WestJet, are among the first global airlines to make some of their seats available at a large discount. The airlines are using Montreal-based airfare prediction app Hopper to unload some of their seats via "secret fares" discounts of up to 35 percent. The developer behind the app...