02-01-2021, 12:10 PM
(02-01-2021, 11:21 AM)taylortbb Wrote:(02-01-2021, 10:27 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Somebody would have to explain to me how having to pay airport fees at Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal could make for a financially viable route, when Bearskin cancelled it's Kitchener-Ottawa route because the Ottawa airport fees were too high. I don't get it ...
Bearskin operates tiny 19 seat planes, while the Q400 seats 70-78 passengers. Lots of the airport fees are per-plane, so if you can fill the larger plane (through the milk-run model) the airport fees are a lot more affordable.
I suspect the point about the milk-run was basically that it doesn't matter how full your plane is at each airport, since you pay per plane, all that matters is how many passengers are embarking or disembarking at that airport. Milk run doesn't buy you any savings on airport fees, only airplane fees per flight destination.
Ultimately, the economics are not such a well defined system, every airline has slightly different economics and each flight model has slightly different costs/benefits.
I just wish we had better trains.