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Originally Posted by LO 044
Where is Martinair, KLM, BA, etc. They could have also flown a few flights per week to YEG. I too am paying more to fly LHR-YEG this summer. The YEG-LHR flights are expensive.
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The plight for YEG is the same as most Canadian airports - the cost of operating here is catastrophically high. And if you are a European airline with an A330 kicking around you can realize a better yield putting on a blindfold and throwing a dart at a map of India than flying to Canada.
The cost issue makes operating flights to secondary Canadian markets a poor business proposition relative to deploying the same aircraft and crew almost anywhere else. Part of this is an airport issue and part of it is a federal issue.
The only way to overcome this impossible barrier to entry is extremely high yields and flightly tourists and immigrants visiting family are not high yielding passengers.
NAVCAN, The National Airports Policy and their hellspawn airport authorities, need to be dismantled with extreme prejudice. Until that occurs and the costs that spiraled out of control as a result are brought under control the prognosis is poor.
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