02-01-2021, 11:21 AM
(02-01-2021, 10:27 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(01-31-2021, 08:28 PM)tomh009 Wrote: I expect this will be Dash-8 Q400 service given the short distances. The milk run model should give them a better chance of success.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.