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Originally Posted by Glacier
It's truly shocking to me that Kelowna is the 10th busiest airport in Canada! Busier than Vagina, SK or Saskatoon or Victoria or Saint John's or Québec City.
I live here, and our population is not that high. WAYYYY more people in Saskatchewan or even our capital city, Victoria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...orts_in_Canada
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A lot has to do with how isolated a city is, whether an areas main airport covers a large capture area for customers & if that area has a larger than average tourist draw, for downhill skiing for example.
A large portion of Southern Saskatchewan's population drives outside province to nearest airport that isn't YXE or YQR (people in Lloyd drive to YEG, eastern Saskatchewan to Minot and South West to Great Falls or YYC).
Saskatoon YXE & Regina YQR still have a combined pax of almost 3 million, over similar driving distance area covered by Colon-a's,... I mean Kelowna's.. 2 million pax airport. YXE has probably already moved up to 13th place as of last year for busiest airports in Canada, next to Quebec City's airport.
Quebec as a province has similar ratio of air passengers/population as Saskatchewan, even though YXE & YQR don't have as nearly as high a ratio of connecting travels as YUL, or drive into Quebec from eastern Ontario & Ottawa to use .