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Old Posted Jan 17, 2023, 7:56 PM
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 6:00 PM
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To Cover Cost of Runway Project and Service Debt, YQR to Increase Fees

January 26, 2023

The Regina Airport Authority (RAA) is announcing that on April 1, 2023, YQR will be increasing certain aeronautical fees at the airport.

Passenger Facility Fee: Increasing $10 per departing passenger, which is currently $20, to be $30 effective April 1, 2023.

Landing Fees and General Terminal Fees: This fee is charged to airlines and will be increasing by 5% effective April 1st, 2023.

While the RAA made significant debt repayments just prior to the pandemic, it did not raise fees throughout the pandemic to encourage recovery. With well over $15 million in pandemic losses, rising interest rates, severe inflation, and a $26.7 million runway project commencing, a fee increase is necessary. However, even with these fee increases, YQR landing fees are still some of the lowest in Canada, which helps drive air service development.

The Passenger Facility Fee, which was previously known as the Airport Improvement Fee, has not been increased since 2012.

https://www.yqr.ca/en/to-cover-cost-...-increase-fees
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 6:14 PM
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These fees are getting out of hand. A Winnipeg-Toronto return flight now lards $75 in airport fees on top of your ticket. So even if you get a good ULCC price, probably at least a third of it is going to the airport.

If I became Minister of Transport, the first thing I'd do is bring back the little kiosks where you pay the AIF as you walk towards the gates. This way people will know how much the airports are soaking them.
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These fees are getting out of hand. A Winnipeg-Toronto return flight now lards $75 in airport fees on top of your ticket. So even if you get a good ULCC price, probably at least a third of it is going to the airport.

If I became Minister of Transport, the first thing I'd do is bring back the little kiosks where you pay the AIF as you walk towards the gates. This way people will know how much the airports are soaking them.
In the U.S. small airports are heavily subsidized by the feds. In Canada they just get screwed by the feds and the airlines.

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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 8:25 PM
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In the U.S. small airports are heavily subsidized by the feds. IIN Canada they just get screwed by the feds and the airlines.
It used to be the airlines that paid the airports. Now the airports double dip and hit up the airlines and the people riding with them.

Every airport in Canada has undergone some massive expansion or reconstruction project in the last 15 years. A lot of little empires have been built, and passengers have to pay for it.
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 8:29 PM
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 9:31 PM
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"The lower fees for airlines attract service, which is something to be proud of, he added."

Did he say that with a straight face?
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I was talking to an AC check in Agent last night at YQR when I had arrived from YYC. He was super friendly as always but he admitted that AC is operating their most sparse schedule in YQR in the 22 yrs he's been with the company.

He blamed it all on the pilot shortage. I'm not so sure.
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I was talking to an AC check in Agent last night at YQR when I had arrived from YYC. He was super friendly as always but he admitted that AC is operating their most sparse schedule in YQR in the 22 yrs he's been with the company.

He blamed it all on the pilot shortage. I'm not so sure.
There's a Pilot shortage alright; that's a fact. Another thing is the new flight duty regulations that have been implemented in recent times.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2023, 7:11 AM
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3x a week to Kamloops yet no Saskatoon or Regina flights…

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WS is starting three times weekly YXE-MSP service next summer
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Sask is back to firmly being the butt hole of Canada.
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'I didn’t hear any hope': Sask. MPs meet with Air Canada over loss of flights

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Sask is back to firmly being the butt hole of Canada.
Were we ever anything else? In the last 30 or so years it seems to me only Brad Wall's first term (roughly speaking) was a sort of golden age.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2023, 11:58 PM
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Were we ever anything else? In the last 30 or so years it seems to me only Brad Wall's first term (roughly speaking) was a sort of golden age.
Haha touché. And that was only because of a tremendous boom in oil and potash.
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WS is starting three times weekly YXE-MSP service next summer
Confirmation on WJ's website, and by next summer hehehe means starting in June. As of now the MWF service is scheduled until the end of October.

WJ also announced resumption of service for the summer from Kelowna to both Saskatoon and Regina, with twice a week service.
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Confirmation on WJ's website, and by next summer hehehe means starting in June. As of now the MWF service is scheduled until the end of October.

WJ also announced resumption of service for the summer from Kelowna to both Saskatoon and Regina, with twice a week service.
Considering YXE-MSP is three times weekly up until the very end of October unlike some of the other new routes, it indicates that WS could make it year round.

I’m surprised they didn’t do a presser for MSP since it’s a big deal for Saskatchewan.
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Considering YXE-MSP is three times weekly up until the very end of October unlike some of the other new routes, it indicates that WS could make it year round.

I’m surprised they didn’t do a presser for MSP since it’s a big deal for Saskatchewan.
I think the Saskatoon YXE - Minneapolis MSP was left it out of the presser, as will it be a summer seasonal route & how well it does operated by the WS Boeing 737 remains to be seen & TBD.

Nothing is a for sure yet.
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I think the Saskatoon YXE - Minneapolis MSP was left it out of the presser, as will it be a summer seasonal route & how well it does operated by the WS Boeing 737 remains to be seen & TBD.

Nothing is a for sure yet.
I'd thought this was an Encore Q400?
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Old Posted Feb 15, 2023, 3:52 AM
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I'd thought this was an Encore Q400?
From CKOM:

"The company will use its Boeing 737-800 planes on the route, which have a 174 seat capacity.

Economy flights begin at $192, with return flights starting at $146.

CJ Dushinski, vice-president of business development for the Saskatoon airport, said more details on the direct flights will be released on Friday."

The last bit might explain why there wasn't any hoopla about the transborder flight, or why it wasn't mentioned in WestJet's media release.
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