We did last time too. The Dublin direct flight was doing fine - our airport authority just behaved like we were doing them the favour letting them fly from here, nickled and dimed them for everything. Meanwhile, other airports rolled out the red carpet, incentives, etc. There's a lot of inertia, and as long as the airport's leaders could get to their cabins in Deer Lake, b'y, they were earning every cent of their salary.
It's typical of a lot of things here - like St. John's charging 6x what Toronto does for a restaurant wanting to rent a parking space for a patio. It's $131 in Moncton, and more than $2,500 here.
I don't think I've ever taken the Air Canada direct to London when we had it? It was prohibitively expensive for me until Westjet introduced competition.
I'll definitely go. Next trip is going to be Lisbon.
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