Prince George Airport Authority President and CEO Gord Duke said they don’t have any concrete information from Air Canada about a possible impact on air service in and out of YXS.
In a letter yesterday (Wednesday), Air Canada C-E-O Michael Rousseau stated it’s making “meaningful” cuts in its schedule through July and August, to try to cope with delayed and cancelled flights, missing luggage, and staff shortages.
Duke told MyPGNow.com most of the airline’s reductions will be based in the larger hubs.
“We may see some sort of ad-hoc, day of cancellations due to crew constraints and that sort of thing for Prince George flights. But, at this point, we are not aware of any planned reductions in the Prince George operations.”
He added there continues to be a lot of pent-up demand for air travel and once the airlines sort out capacity issues, the industry should be in pretty good shape.
“There’s been a bit of a lag when adjusting to that big jump in demand. In speaking with, our industry partners and our airline partners, are hopeful that they are going to be sorting out the problems that are existing at those large hub airports.”
Duke mentioned YXS is coming off a strong May, where they saw their best month in terms of passenger traffic since before the pandemic.
“I think there is a lot of pent-up demand and once the airlines are able to sort out their capacity constraints, I think we’ll be in pretty good shape.”
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