More sensible airports would bring flight prices down: assn
Posted October 4, 2012 6:43 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A report we told you about yesterday that has found a soaring number of us are border-hopping to catch cheaper flights comes as no surprise to the Consumers’ Association of Canada.
Bruce Cran with the association believes we pay higher air fares, fees, and taxes because the Americans have a much more sensible airport system.
“I don’t see any great big aquariums with… fancy and costly fish swimming around them in Bellingham. It’s the same all the way across Canada; in several other airports, people prefer the no-frills approach,” he maintains.
Cran points out YVR‘s Airport Improvement Fee was supposed to have been taken out years ago.
“This particular fee is to minimize the time that overseas visitors going to places in the US and elsewhere can come in through Vancouver. I don’t think any of us in Vancouver have sympathy with that,” he tells us.
Research from the Conference Board of Canada suggests flights out of the US are about 30 per cent cheaper than flights out of Canada. Cran disagrees, arguing they are actually closer to 50 per cent cheaper.
