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Other airports such as Vancouver have reduced cleaning costs by closing off piers and reduced the area that needs to be cleaned and supported. Air Canada is predicting a return to most routes by the end of the year. I think it will take longer. |
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Shutting down parts of the airport would be difficult because we only have a few gates. I haven't been to the airport since the pandemic struck, but I'd guess they're only using two or three gates. It would be difficult to shut down some of the gates unless lighting and such can be controlled discreetly. (That ability may never have been foreseen as being useful.) Many costs are fixed and statutorily required, e.g. fire fighting ability. I'm sure they're spending less on things like cleaning, but they would still need security. The president said they have cut all operations that they are allowed to cut that make sense, and I'm inclined to believe him. We don't have the luxury of shutting a large section of a large terminal. We only have one terminal and it isn't large to begin with. |
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Regina Airport Authority facing 'financial crisis' in 2020
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I didn't know they ran flights between Saskatoon & Regina. |
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Regina is only losing two flights, not three. |
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You could buy a flight to Saskatoon on that route and get off there. You could also connect in Saskatoon to elsewhere (which I'm sure is how it was used, if ever anyone got off in Saskatoon). So, technically, we had non-stop (and direct) service to Saskatoon, and direct (but not non-stop) service to Ottawa. |
So, in theory, Air Canada could fly you from Regina to Saskatoon but not from Saskatoon to Regina.
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to Regina back to Ottawa as well? |
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Later, AC changed it to Saskatoon-Ottawa-Halifax and Regina-Ottawa-Montreal, arriving in Ottawa within 2-3 minutes of each other, so that Saskatoon passengers could connect to Montreal and Regina passengers could connect to Halifax with an easy 45-minute connection in Ottawa. But later, they changed back to the single pair of flights a day involving both Regina and Saskatoon. |
aaaaaand welcome to SK Flair Airlines..... https://globalnews.ca/news/7210239/f...-saskatchewan/
What's the consensus folks? Good? Bad? Ugly? |
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When I flew Flair from YQR to Kelowna a few years back I think my fair was $14 + taxes. Everything was a la carte. It is great to have some competition.
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https://i.imgur.com/UdRCOFpl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Mzp47jdl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bDRFcqUl.jpg Kind of spooky really: https://i.imgur.com/86DfPdkl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/72uiWqkl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/N6AvKS5l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1mP6GHml.jpg https://i.imgur.com/L3T6ej4l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qMB6PEJl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/JmcwHx0l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TkXlJJ5l.jpg Gate 3 seems to be the main one in use, people were mostly congregated around there, and the Tim Horton's and the Relay now that they're airside: https://i.imgur.com/LHnrHj4l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BrFR007l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bvxlmhnl.jpg The expansion really makes the sharp drop in passengers all the more stark. Compared to a few years ago before they expanded the footprint, it might not have been as noticeable: https://i.imgur.com/CNbGOYCl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OKLZ9Pol.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nZ9m5tWl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/2qCpQLUl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KNGM9DBl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/94vFkebl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vEEqo29l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/N0y8ycCl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/25z1W20l.jpg |
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Flair's not at all my things, but once the dust settles on travel, assuming they stick it out here, they will help to keep WestJet's and Air Canada's fares down.
If Flair got their service up to daily levels at convenient times, I could ese them being tempting for a weekend trip to Toronto or Vancouver. Unfortunately, urban holidays are exactly what I'm not interested in right now. My 2020 holiday is a week in an isolated cabin in northern Saskatchewan instead. :) |
Flair's livery
For what it's worth, their livery is ugly! Did they have a design contest at an elementary school?
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