Edmonton has lowest airfare in the country

AAAAE · 11-04-2012, 10:13 PM

Interesting statistic here,

Edmonton has the lowest domestic airfares in Canada according to this table. Perhaps this explains why Air Canada doesn't like us too much.

edmonton daily photo · 12-04-2012, 08:41 AM

It's likely because 25% of our flights are uber cheap flights to Calgary.

YEGatc · 12-04-2012, 09:43 AM

^You're probably not far off the mark with that comment. Admittedly, I haven't even looked at the linked article but I remember looking at Stats Can statistics wrt airfares and while does show average domestic airfares, nowhere did it compare city pairs or anything of that nature. It was simply "Average Domestic" airfares.... So in my mind, that suggests that they're comparing strictly raw and unfiltered data, meaning the stage lengths of flight certainly could come into play. A lot of YEG's flights are to YYC, YMM, and the west coast i.e. short haul. But with that in mind, you would also think YOW (for eg.) would have very low average airfares...

McBoo · 12-04-2012, 09:58 AM

Just shy of $1400 poorer for the GF and I to fly return to Kelowna over Easter - this table seems pretty meaningless.

Funny, when my weekly Travelzoo top 20 arrives, guess which prairie city has the highest airfares?

Uh-huh, that'd be us.

Alex.L · 12-04-2012, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by McBoo

Just shy of $1400 poorer for the GF and I to fly return to Kelowna over Easter - this table seems pretty meaningless.

Funny, when my weekly Travelzoo top 20 arrives, guess which prairie city has the highest airfares?

Uh-huh, that'd be us.

That's rough. I don't think we've ever paid more than about $700 round trip to Kelowna, but then again we hunt down the seat sales usually.

Hilman · 12-04-2012, 10:16 AM

Expensive airfares over the Easter long weekend, shocking

howie · 12-04-2012, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ander

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Originally Posted by McBoo

Just shy of $1400 poorer for the GF and I to fly return to Kelowna over Easter - this table seems pretty meaningless.

Funny, when my weekly Travelzoo top 20 arrives, guess which prairie city has the highest airfares?

Uh-huh, that'd be us.

That's rough. I don't think we've ever paid more than about $700 round trip to Kelowna, but then again we hunt down the seat sales usually.

That is rough. We just booked a Westjet seat sale for the two of us to Moncton for $1211.00 return.

11-04-2012, 10:13 PM	#1
AAAAE Addicted to C2E Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Edmonton, AB	Edmonton has lowest airfare in the country Interesting statistic here, Edmonton has the lowest domestic airfares in Canada according to this table. Perhaps this explains why Air Canada doesn't like us too much.

12-04-2012, 08:41 AM	#2
edmonton daily photo Addicted to C2E Join Date: May 2008	It's likely because 25% of our flights are uber cheap flights to Calgary. __________________ "Do you give people who already use transit a better service, or do you build it where they don't use it in the hopes they might start to use it?" Nenshi

12-04-2012, 09:43 AM	#3
YEGatc Partially Addicted to C2E Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Far away from clueless people.	^You're probably not far off the mark with that comment. Admittedly, I haven't even looked at the linked article but I remember looking at Stats Can statistics wrt airfares and while does show average domestic airfares, nowhere did it compare city pairs or anything of that nature. It was simply "Average Domestic" airfares.... So in my mind, that suggests that they're comparing strictly raw and unfiltered data, meaning the stage lengths of flight certainly could come into play. A lot of YEG's flights are to YYC, YMM, and the west coast i.e. short haul. But with that in mind, you would also think YOW (for eg.) would have very low average airfares... __________________ Slow to 160, contact tower. Slow to 160, contact tower. Slow to...ZZZZZZZZZZ.....

12-04-2012, 09:58 AM	#4
McBoo Addicted to C2E Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Edmonton, Canada	Just shy of $1400 poorer for the GF and I to fly return to Kelowna over Easter - this table seems pretty meaningless. Funny, when my weekly Travelzoo top 20 arrives, guess which prairie city has the highest airfares? Uh-huh, that'd be us. __________________ Linda Sloan - Danielle's BFF Hoot

12-04-2012, 10:16 AM	#6
Hilman Addicted to C2E Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ozerna, North Edmonton	Expensive airfares over the Easter long weekend, shocking