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It wouldn't be that widely distributed the majority will be in Florida and Arizona if the snowbirds look elsewhere. Border cities used to cross border shopping
by sanswork 2y ago
It wouldn't be that widely distributed the majority will be in Florida and Arizona if the snowbirds look elsewhere. Border cities used to cross border shopping trips will also be impacted. I would be surprised if the drop is that low too, just about every Canadian I know is avoiding travel south unless it's already been paid for.
- ggm 2y agoThe article quantifies the cost at 10% but the actual decline in flight is 70% so it's "do the maths" I doubt 70% will sustain but its certainly billions.
- gizmo686 2y agoI wonder if there is a discrepency between the numbers for "travel" and "flights". The US and Canada share a large land border. I would imagine that people who cross at a land border would be more stable in their patterns. Land travelers are much more restricted in where they can go, and more likely to have regular destinations they make habits out of.
- youngtaff 2y agoLand crossings in Feb 2025 were down 500,000 on Fed ‘24 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/decline-travellers-driving-from-canada-u-s-february https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/decline-travellers-driv...
- xenospn 2y agoIf I’m the government of Mexico, I am taking this opportunity to go on a huge media blitz in Canada. Their tagline could be “Skip the US, literally”.
- TheAlchemist 2y agoThat's what I was thinking too - this is a huge opportunity to all non-US holiday spots in North America. What's quite funny about all this, is that the damage Trump has already done, will not disappear quickly. He insulted pretty much every ally country on earth and the disrespect he and his administration show is mind blowing. It's only been 2 months and there are already millions of people in the West who stop buying American and will not go there. US is about to find out why their stock market was recently valued more as a % of the whole world economy, and not only the US economy.
- Gibbon1 2y agoNot to mention it's now very obvious to anyone outside the US that the US conservative movement has no bottom. There isn't anything that they could be told to do that they would think is beyond the pale. Nothing, nothing at all. They will do anything.
- xenospn 2y ago*insulted every ally except for Israel
- blitzar 2y ago"The Flyover States of America"
- whatevertrevor 2y agoWouldn't put it past Trump to try and sign an EO to prevent use of American airspace for direct flights to Mexico or some bullshit like that.
- ggm 2y agoThe retaliation in overflights transpolar would hit US airlines severely
- Yeul 2y agoYeah Mexico and the Carribbean should seize this opportunity to go after Florida's tourism industry.