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Article of Interest: Most expensive city to fly from in Canada
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As the time period they're measuring was during the Olympics, it's pretty hard to take this article seriously.
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Originally Posted by global_happy_traveller
(Post 15924676)
Seattle is close, but has a fraction of the passenger traffic compared to even Calgary. Vancouver Island is close to Vancouver but those fares are sky high! Toronto is Vancouver's #1 market and that's over 2,000 miles away! Compare that to Toronto with its 3 major markets, (Ottawa, Montreal and NYC), all under 400 miles. People sometimes forget how isolated Vancouver really is. It's on the periphery of a continent! Go past the British Properties and you could probably walk to the North Pole without seeing more than a couple of people. I know there are people out there that would take offense with this, but then those people haven't probably flown up the eastern seaboard from, say ATL to YYZ recently at night, looked out the window to the west and see city after city after city for the entire 3 hr flight. I would bet that average airfares from Perth, Australia are way more expensive than average fares from Sidney, Brisbane or Melbourne! :) |
Originally Posted by HangTen
(Post 15924803)
This makes sense to me. Vancouver's closest big market is Calgary which is 425 miles away, then Edmonton at over 500 miles and then it goes on from there!
Seattle is close, but has a fraction of the passenger traffic compared to even Calgary. Vancouver Island is close to Vancouver but those fares are sky high! Toronto is Vancouver's #1 market and that's over 2,000 miles away! Compare that to Toronto with its 3 major markets, (Ottawa, Montreal and NYC), all under 400 miles. People sometimes forget how isolated Vancouver really is. It's on the periphery of a continent! Go past the British Properties and you could probably walk to the North Pole without seeing more than a couple of people. I know there are people out there that would take offense with this, but then those people haven't probably flown up the eastern seaboard from, say ATL to YYZ recently at night, looked out the window to the west and see city after city after city for the entire 3 hr flight. I would bet that average airfares from Perth, Australia are way more expensive than average fares from Sidney, Brisbane or Melbourne! :) |
Not really surprising to be honest. Everything in Vancouver is overpriced. In West Vancouver where I live the average price of a home is 2 million dollars.
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I recently shopped for Chicago-Vancouver tickets: Reasonable itineraries on my dates started around $800. The nonstop option would have been $1000.
Chicago-Tokyo was about the same, Chicago-Honolulu noticeably cheaper. I was tempted, but my conference is in Vancouver. :) I ended up buying Chicago-Seattle for $350 and plan to take the shuttle bus from SEA airport to Vancouver downtown. |
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