Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
Lynx Air rolled in here and offered $40 fares on Calgary to Vancouver, and then social media was just inundated with posts about people saying that Air Canada and WestJet are simply corporate greed monsters for charging $100 on the route and Lynx was charging the true cost to operate the flight.
Those people were apparently unaware that Calgary Airport takes 35 of those 40 dollars and were strangely silent when Lynx Air went bankrupt 2 years later, $100M in the hole.
Unless the government changes the structure of fees and taxes on airlines in this country, it's going to forever be expensive to fly, have the airlines not be bankrupt, and also have the airlines pay their employees a decent wage.
|
Canadian airport fees are also part of the problem. They have near zero competition or reason to try harder to lower them.