Originally Posted by
CanadianConnection33
How much does the A380 cost to land?
I thought we had fallen to #2 most expensive in recent months? Well nice to be on top again.
The Canadian Government needs to stop looking at airports as cash cows and treat them as part of the economic engine with a goal of their being revenue neutral.
If the rent charged to Canadian airports dropped I would expect landing fees would drop which would attract more flights and carriers and generate more competition (maybe even JetBlue!) and might event cause airfares to drop by a few bucks.
All that being said the fees charged by YYZ are a bit loopy.
A380's weren't included in the study, since many of the airports in the analysis/report don't have a380's landing at them, so I believe the results would have shown bias/been skewered.
In addition, the report further goes on to analyze the profit made per year -- YYZ is in the bottom quartile. There's no specific analysis on this anomaly, but I can't help but think that union wages are to blame, as well as ineffective management practices (this is not in the report, it is MY OWN OPINION.) Another course I'm taking on pavement network management consistently ranks YYZ as one of the worst airports to implement proactive pavement management practices, meaning they wait for a problem to appear instead of pre-emptively monitoring and fixing pavement issues.
Having interned at the GTAA, I'm also not surprised. Protocol, procedure, and bureaucracy is king there, and nothing ever gets done fast. It also doesn't help that everything is contracted out, which means smaller companies are raking it in BIG time.