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Originally Posted by RM14
I don't think there is any room to increase the average ticket prices by $50.
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Keep in mind that's also just the average. By increasing the number of box and club level seats, and taking away the PL in a new arena, you get to most of that already. The Oilers increased their ticket prices by 20-40%, increased the number of premium seats and took away cheap seats.
So remove 3000 of the $40 seats and replace them with 2000 seats in the $300 range. Move everybody else up 30%.
However you do bring up a good point. With us being a few years into cheap oil, there may not be as much of a demand as before. That brings about a completely different question- what is so "bad" about the Saddledome to make it worth spending that much on a new arena.
I get it- the new arenas are way nicer. I just got back from Vegas and had a blast at the game. However we still had to wait in line for beer during the intermission; to the point where we didn't have time to hit the souvenir shop. What made the Vegas experience great was the sound and light shows. Both of those could be done at the Saddledome, but at the Dome there is a need to dampen things for the corporate crowd. A new Calgary arena tailored for the corporate crowd would still be not as flashy of a gametime show.