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NOVEMBER 2019 BCBUSINESS 39
b y N A T H A N C A D D E L L
p o r t r a i t s b y T A N Y A G O E H R I N G
SETTING TRENDS IS NOTHING NEW FOR
HARBOUR AIR, BUT THE B.C. OUTFIT'S BID TO
BECOME THE WORLD'S FIRST FOSSIL-FUEL-
FREE AIRLINE COULD MAKE HISTORY
Greg McDougall
has yet to make the cover of this magazine, and
that's probably fine in his books.
"You ever hear of the BCBusiness curse?" he asks, reclining in an
ergonomic chair in one of Harbour Air Seaplanes' downtown Van-
couver boardrooms. "We used to joke in the early 1990s that any-
time anyone got on the cover, they'd be bankrupt within the year."
We didn't go through the back issues to confirm McDougall's
anecdote, but thankfully, recent cover subjects have avoided that
fate (at least to our knowledge). Either way, it's hard to see any kind
of curse slowing down McDougall. The 63-year-old
CEO of Harbour
Air has been something of an unstoppable force since co-founding
the airline in 1982.
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