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Originally Posted by Incogneto
It's absolutely unaffordable for a family to go to a game at this point. I would love to take my kids to a game, but it costs the same as a weekend in Banff.
Make it more affordable, and the people will come back.
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I'll echo this. It's 1,000% my full intention to bring my oldest son to a game at the Saddledome (youngest will be too young to form the memory before the new arena is built).
The cost to get to Calgary is insane.
January 18-21 is $1,760 round trip for the two of us. We'd get in at 10:45am Calgary time, be able to attend the game that night, and Saturday night. Flight out on Sunday at 2:00pm arrive half past one am.
Same dates from Halifax: $946 return, plus the 4 hour drive to Halifax, and 4 hour drive back. Throw in another $300 gas, plus $150 for parking, ($1,396) and we'd only get to the Saturday game due to flight times.
That assumes the weather cooperates for the drive up and back. Throw in a hotel if need be on the way back and that's an extra $200-300 and wipes out the savings of flying out of Halifax.
Then factor in tickets, concessions, and lets face it, we'd need new jerseys (I'm not gonna send him to a game at the Saddledome in a WHITE Flames jersey).
Hopefully over the next year or two WestJet returns to the smaller Atlantic Canada markets, and/or YQY gets a discount airline like Flair, Lynx, or even Porter would be nice.