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All Canadian airports have high AIFs (Toronto's is $25 for instance), and they are charged to everyone not just tourists. It's more to do with how airports are
by eigenvector 8y ago
All Canadian airports have high AIFs (Toronto's is $25 for instance), and they are charged to everyone not just tourists.
It's more to do with how airports are structured and managed in Canada versus other countries. It's a user-pay model rather than having them subsidized by the government. In fact many actually pay ground rent to the federal government.
- volkl48 8y agoIt's arguably not a model that has actually worked out very well for Canada. They push a significant portion of their air travelers over the US border for much cheaper flights. And they wind up with fewer flights and worse route options to their own domestic airports as a result. Ex: Burlington VT is about 40% Canadian, Plattsbugh + Niagara Falls NY are almost entirely Canadian traffic.