06-20-2025, 07:41 PM
(06-20-2025, 04:15 PM)bravado Wrote:(06-19-2025, 07:25 PM)SammyOES Wrote: I couldn’t find good numbers for how much money the region supports the airport (particularly operating + capital combined) but this is the benefit:
So not sure I’d say it doesn’t benefit too many locals.
Without Flair, will the 2025 + beyond figures compare well or poorly against those 2023 numbers? How much does/did the Region spend in capital and ongoing improvements to support those figures from 2023?
I just have a (totally uninformed) hunch that the airport is a big hog of local government time + resources and seems to get no pushback about it, unlike other public services that have to constantly beg and defend their existence but can provide much bigger proportional returns to the public.
My (also fairly uninformed) hunch is that any change in Flair will be minimal in terms of impact to the airports economic impact because there are a lot of different things that happens there.
And yes, the numbers I posted are the pro - but I also have no idea the con. What did we spend.
I think the airport is a pretty reasonable expense for the region and has a good impact. I’d probably agree though that there are other services that don’t get the same benefit of the doubt that the airport has and also offer a strong return on investment.