Query from journalist for Canadians
Nov 22, 2005 | 12:31 pm
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Query from journalist for Canadians
This is a question from a journalist for Canadians who live in or near border cities.
Does anyone out there take flights out of a U.S. border city because the cost (air fare plus tax) is significantly cheaper than from the Canadian airport closest to where you live? Have you done it for a business trip? Have you done it for a pleasure trip?
I am writing a story for The Globe and Mail about a claim being made by Expedia.ca that fares from Buffalo to U.S. cities are cheaper than from Toronto to the same cities and that there is a marked increase in people from the GTA flying out of Buffalo.
Any experiences or comments on flying from any U.S. border city appreciated.
Thanks,
Doug McArthur
Does anyone out there take flights out of a U.S. border city because the cost (air fare plus tax) is significantly cheaper than from the Canadian airport closest to where you live? Have you done it for a business trip? Have you done it for a pleasure trip?
I am writing a story for The Globe and Mail about a claim being made by Expedia.ca that fares from Buffalo to U.S. cities are cheaper than from Toronto to the same cities and that there is a marked increase in people from the GTA flying out of Buffalo.
Any experiences or comments on flying from any U.S. border city appreciated.
Thanks,
Doug McArthur
Nov 22, 2005 | 12:33 pm
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I know Burlington, VT sees a great deal of custom from Quebecois who come south to fly JetBlue out of BTV rather than pay holdup prices out of Dorval.
Nov 23, 2005 | 7:19 am
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Canadian fares have been fairly high, and with WN flying from BUF, many from Toronto have been going to BUF for domestic flights. Used to be that for international flights, upstate NYers would go to Toronto or Montreal because flights were cheaper there (one factor was the exchange rate). This hasn't been true for some time now, though.
Nov 23, 2005 | 7:40 am
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Originally Posted by journo
This is a question from a journalist for Canadians who live in or near border cities.
Does anyone out there take flights out of a U.S. border city because the cost (air fare plus tax) is significantly cheaper than from the Canadian airport closest to where you live? Have you done it for a business trip? Have you done it for a pleasure trip?
I am writing a story for The Globe and Mail about a claim being made by Expedia.ca that fares from Buffalo to U.S. cities are cheaper than from Toronto to the same cities and that there is a marked increase in people from the GTA flying out of Buffalo.
Any experiences or comments on flying from any U.S. border city appreciated.
Thanks,
Doug McArthur
Does anyone out there take flights out of a U.S. border city because the cost (air fare plus tax) is significantly cheaper than from the Canadian airport closest to where you live? Have you done it for a business trip? Have you done it for a pleasure trip?
I am writing a story for The Globe and Mail about a claim being made by Expedia.ca that fares from Buffalo to U.S. cities are cheaper than from Toronto to the same cities and that there is a marked increase in people from the GTA flying out of Buffalo.
Any experiences or comments on flying from any U.S. border city appreciated.
Thanks,
Doug McArthur
I know of one case where someone was flying out of DTW and saw his wife's flight out of Windsor from the air !
Bob H
Nov 23, 2005 | 10:59 am
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>Any experiences or comments on flying from any U.S. border city appreciated.
It's common practice for people in Vancouver to drive or bus down to Seattle to fly out of Seatac instead of YVR - Even though this drive can take up to three hours or more. In fact, my father is doing this next week for a trip to the British Virgin islands.
Flights are often cheaper and it allows you to feed into other networks not serviced out of Vancouver, such as Southwest, US Airways, Frontier etc.
Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada
It's common practice for people in Vancouver to drive or bus down to Seattle to fly out of Seatac instead of YVR - Even though this drive can take up to three hours or more. In fact, my father is doing this next week for a trip to the British Virgin islands.
Flights are often cheaper and it allows you to feed into other networks not serviced out of Vancouver, such as Southwest, US Airways, Frontier etc.
Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada
Nov 29, 2005 | 5:55 pm
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YES yes and YES
I often fly into LAX to fly SQ or SEA to fly BA when travelling first class or biz primarily because of the grave discrepancies in ticket pricing. Pitiful really, but if i can help it and am paying out my pocket I will save the 2000-3000$ and fly to the closes major US airport. Mind you LAX is the official mascot for the worst airport in the world haha and SEA is far better. bottom line, I almost always fly into the US for most long haul routes.
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Nov 30, 2005 | 1:13 am
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You'd probably get more responses if you posted this on the Air Canada forum. While technically it's an AC forum, basically all topics go (like the London folk who post on BA forum rather than London forum).
My understanding is it's cheaper (even w/ bus cost) to go into Toronto via BUF.
Personally speaking I don't want to go to through the hassle of BUF & then bus to Toronto, but seriously thinking of it in future due to cost.
Toronto is expensive to fly into. I can fly to London for $100 more - what's wrong w/ that pic? I would actually fly into YYZ more/stay at Marriott/give Canada more $$, but YYZ (Toronto) too expensive on air.
Cheers.
My understanding is it's cheaper (even w/ bus cost) to go into Toronto via BUF.
Personally speaking I don't want to go to through the hassle of BUF & then bus to Toronto, but seriously thinking of it in future due to cost.
Toronto is expensive to fly into. I can fly to London for $100 more - what's wrong w/ that pic? I would actually fly into YYZ more/stay at Marriott/give Canada more $$, but YYZ (Toronto) too expensive on air.
Cheers.
Dec 7, 2005 | 9:13 pm
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I have flown to Europe, once with Air Canada, from Regina, to Toronto, to London, to Amsterdam. At a larger cost. Earlier this year, drove to Minot, 4 hour drive from where I live, flew from Minot, to Minneapolis, to Amsterdam. At a significant cost savings. And less hassle. A little longer drive, but worth it.