Outstation misery in Goose Bay over free bags for an E35K
Jul 18, 2017, 5:46 pm
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Love when people chim in and add comments that they have literally no knowledge about...
Education time : YYR is located 48 mins away from a 12.7 Billion dollar construction mega project. YYR would be the only realistic gateway for the thousands of migrant workers on the project. These people would be living in a fly in fly out work camp. Most of these flyers would have E35k status on the basis of a regular commute.
So please educate us to why you think that this Far Flung airport would not see status travelers? Do you believe because the airport code is not YYZ that it makes it irrelevant in the network?
Education time : YYR is located 48 mins away from a 12.7 Billion dollar construction mega project. YYR would be the only realistic gateway for the thousands of migrant workers on the project. These people would be living in a fly in fly out work camp. Most of these flyers would have E35k status on the basis of a regular commute.
So please educate us to why you think that this Far Flung airport would not see status travelers? Do you believe because the airport code is not YYZ that it makes it irrelevant in the network?
My position was that the airport staff don't see much traffic of E35s with 3 bags flying on reward flights and that there was most likely no malicious intent. And then here you come frothing, mentioning a mysterious 12.7 Billion dollar construction mega project only 48 minutes away. (It has a name that must be a great mega secret no one knows of.) Was a new project just announced that I missed because the total expenditure on major projects for the entire province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2016 was $6.5 billion.
Perhaps you are referencing the over budget fiasco of Muskrat Falls which only has ever claimed 1500 jobs were created, and is subject to a local jobs guarantee. Do you know what that means? No one is coming in from Papua New Guinea. When Nalcor was facing the protests and it had to retain Universal helicopters to fly in white collar personnel, it released a press release stating that 685 workers were drawn from the immediate vicinity of the project. Additional workers were drawn from slightly farther out. Hardly the numbers of pax to create the traffic you claim. Unless Ernie and Louie are regulars on the BE 1600 to Wabush?
But wait, there's more. Let's do some basic math using data like passenger traffic. Goose Bay in its heyday was servicing about 95,000 pax for all airlines and all charters It's down to about 85,000 now. Not everyone was flying on the Jazz/AC Express BE1600s and Q400s, but they were flying in on Provincial, and specialty charters. 85,000 is a big number for some. However, if we put it in perspective, Kamloops, that hot spot octogenarian party town has 4X the traffic with about 322,000. Fort Mac has fallen to 745,000. Goose Bay idoesn't have the traffic to generate multiple E35s flying on a reward ticket and carrying 3 bags.