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Originally Posted by Lubicon
If you have a ticket just look at the fare breakdown, it will show everything.
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Those are the fees charged to you as a passenger, not charged to us as the airline which is what he was referring to.
YYC bills WestJet about $4,800 just to park that Rome 787 at the gate, for example. Another $125 just to use the jet bridge - make that $250 because we use both bridges. Another $250 just to land the plane in Calgary to begin with. Passengers pay $35 for the airport improvement fee, but that's only 2/3 of the total fee... WestJet pays the other $15 even if that seat goes out empty. You have to pay air traffic control for them to provide the service of not crashing our planes together, it's not a complementary service. That fee is based on the weight aircraft and the length of time the aircraft is airborne in Canadian airspace, so obviously Rome is a big one by both of those metrics. Customs fees, fuel fees, catering fees, security fees... you get the idea.
The fuel itself would be somewhere between $40-50k for that trip.