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Originally Posted by Acey
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.
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Do you know much about why these costs are the way they are and are they justifiable? Like presumably the air traffic control costs are to cover the pay of those people, opex on the tower and some maintenance over time etc.
Wouldn’t a US airport have the same or similar cost structure to operate and maintain? Are the taxes that much cheaper and why?
Is YYC just gouging?