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Originally Posted by SkydivePilot
Oh, I forgot to mention that, on yesterday's NewsTalk with John Gormley, there was a discussion that it costs an average $182 to depart YQR; and $190 to depart out of YXE.
I didn't catch the whole program; however, they were saying something about 'demand vs. supply' as to the reason. Did any of you guys catch that discussion?
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Here it is....
Domestic airfare hike highest in Saskatoon
Febuary 20, 2014
Phil Tank
The LeaderPost
A rise in airfares to locations in Canada from Saskatoon reflects the substantial increase in passenger volume, says the city airport's president and CEO.
But Saskatoon Airport Authority president Stephen Maybury cautioned Wednesday not to read too much in a Statistic Canada study suggesting that Saskatoon domestic airline passengers got hit with the largest average fare increase in 2012 over the year before.
Average fares from Saskatoon to destinations within Canada rose 6.2 per cent to $190.10 from $178.80, which represented the largest hike among the 10 cities included in the Statistics Canada study.
"It tells a story, but it doesn't necessarily tell the whole story," said Maybury. "There are so many variables in the booking of airfares.
"There's just so many moving parts to this."
A record 1.389 million passengers either arrived or departed through Saskatoon's John G. Diefenbaker Airport in 2013, which represented a 4.7 per cent increase (or 63,000 more passengers) over the 1.326 million passengers in 2012, said Maybury.
"That's the really exciting part," he said.
In December, which is a peak month for air travel, passenger volume at the airport rose 8.8 per cent over December 2012, he said.
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