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Lack of Cheap Flights within Canada??
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| Cro_Addict |
What is the reason for this?
In Europe they have tons of options. Lots of people will state that it's because of the larger population on a smaller area of land and whatnot.
However recently having been in Australia, I noticed that they too have cheap airlines.
They are a little smaller than Canada, have less people, and their population density is actually lower.
I was able to fly from Syndey to Melbourne round trip for under $100. Meanwhile Toronto-Montreal is at least $300 (which is btw almost half the distance).
What gives??? |
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| Cro_Addict |
Maybe, but other Canadian cities have lower fees, but flights are still ridiculous. |
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| Jayx1 |
taxes, over-regulation, hidden fees, non hidden fees, surcharges up the yin yang.... you name it.
A "free" ticket in canada will still usually cost you almost $150 in taxes and fees in this country. |
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| Cribby |
| Where's that methicopter when you need it? |
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| PurpleHaze |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cribby
Where's that methicopter when you need it? |
LOL
you actually missed a HUGE promotion/deal with Porter Airlines for within canada flights....$99 to montreal, $149 to vancouver etc
was pretty good, i was gonna book one myself but it ended yesterday! |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by PurpleHaze
LOL
you actually missed a HUGE promotion/deal with Porter Airlines for within canada flights....$99 to montreal, $149 to vancouver etc
was pretty good, i was gonna book one myself but it ended yesterday! |
one way... so $99 turns into $198 if u are lucky... $198 + 110 taxes.. $308
Thats almost two round trip flights to florida from buffalo taxes inc if you book it properly.
Id rather drive to montreal.
Vancouver however, thats a decent deal. |
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| Jayx1 |
And its about to get even more expensive to fly in canada :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip:
| quote: | Air travellers to pay for security equipment with fee hikes
Published On Thu Feb 25 2010
OTTAWA—Airline passengers are getting hit with fee hikes to pay for tens of millions in new security equipment at Canadian airports.
Transport Minister John Baird announced Thursday that the security fee was going up to cover the cost of extra security screeners and scanners.
Fees now range from $5 to $16, depending on the length of a flight and its destination.
The cost of the fee on a one-way domestic ticket will rise by $2.58; for a trans-border ticket it rises $4.37 and $8.91 on an international ticket.
Coinciding with the extra fees is a $1.5 billion investment in aviation security over five years, Baird said.
The extra cash is meant to cover ballooning security expenses.
That’s a stiff price for travellers who are already paying a price of added hassles for the extra security screening put in place in recent months.
Airport security was dramatically boosted after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist hijackings and heightened again after a foiled bombing this past Christmas on a Detroit-bound jetliner.
That last incident prompted Ottawa to buy sophisticated—and costly—body scanners for major airports nationwide.
The announcement at Ottawa International Airport is a bid by the government to get the bad news out of the way before next Thursday’s budget.
But it calls into question the pledge by senior Conservatives that this budget would not raise taxes.
“A tax is a tax is a tax,” said New Democrat finance critic Thomas Mulcair.
He said the government is trying to “rationalize” a new tax by calling it a security fee.
Mulcair called Baird’s airport announcement one week before the budget a bald-faced “communications effort.”
“If Baird can get away with putting lipstick on this pig, then they figure maybe next week they can announce a whole bunch of new tariffs and fees and say that they haven’t raised taxes, they’ve just raised tariffs and fees?”
To say the fee is not a tax because it only applies to air travelers, not to everyone is “ridiculous,” said Mulcair. “It doesn’t even make any sense.”
“They are nickel-and-diming the travelling public, but their choice is to give billions in corporate tax reductions. That’s what this is about. Instead of doing the responsible thing, and saying they won’t give the next round of tax reductions to corporations, they’re going after the travelling public.”
“Of course they’re trying to give themselves a clear conscience by saying it only applies to the people who are using airports, but let’s be serious.”
Mulcair said the fact that new body scanners are coming online is irrelevant, because technology constantly changes for services provided by the government at the airport.
“Who cares? This is just a new tax for something that was already being provided by government, and for him to be referring to new machines as if we wouldn’t have been buying new machines without this new tax is just nonsense.”
“They’re just not being honest with Canadians,” said Mulcair, adding all the fees and taxes tacked onto passenger airline tickets make it harder and harder for the airline industry. “They can call it whatever they want, but at the end of the day, a tax by any other name is a tax.”
Liberal transport critic Joe Volpe said in a televised interview it is “outrageous” that the government is passing on the cost of scanners –initially pegged at $11 million a year – by raising $1.5 million over five years.
Volpe said it’s tantamount to the government trying to raise “$300 million a year to cover something we said was only going to cost $11 million.”
He slammed the fact the fee was announced “outside” the usual budgetary process and outside the parliamentary precinct.
“They’ve already made the expenditures and now they’re going to tax a portion of the public in order to ensure that it gets covered.”
“I don’t know …how gullible they think people are. But this is a tax by any definition,” said Volpe. “This is another boondoggle perpetrated on the Canadian taxpayer.”
“This is an indication that the government is not going to live up to any of its promises about no taxation. They don’t know where they’re going, but you know that we’re all going to pay for it.” |
Buffalo... cheap fare... easy in easy out airport... and the drive isnt really that bad..
AND on the way back u can stop in buffalo and shop for stuff u couldnt bring on the plane and still get your exemption for being out of the country!
WIN ON ALL LEVELS :)
PS: as much as i hate this conservative tax hike... i find it hilariously ironic that the NDP are complaining about higher taxes and that the Liberals are calling it a "boondoggle". Do they really think the Canadian taxpayer is that dumb? Well um... never mind |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cro_Addict
Maybe, but other Canadian cities have lower fees, but flights are still ridiculous. |
not true, other cities still pay crazy landing fees, they just don't appear on that list on that page.
Like Jayx said, its taxes taxes and taxes!! The price asked by the airlines are fair, it's the taxes that double up the price paid by us sheep... euh sorry customers.
And the ing cons will raise the taxes even more!!
edit: oops just saw jayx quote. |
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| malek |
| Spoke too fast, Pearson is really more expensive than other cities... ouch. |
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| Endlesswave |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
Spoke too fast, Pearson is really more expensive than other cities... ouch. |
A lot more bud...boooruns to TO for that. |
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| yankeeBaby |
True story.
I just bought a SUMMER multi-city flight (NYC, Amsterdam, Barcelona) for ~$950
^about 21 hours round trip worth of flying
Going to Montreal for Bal en Blanc ~$380 from NYC
Going to Toronto from NYC ~$300
^^both about 1.5 hour flights
the ratio difference of $ to flying hours is huge :(
(hence me visiting canada only 3 times a year now!) |
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