What we're both familiar with, as are most consumers, is the airport improvement fee, which is an add-on to the ticket. Sometimes there is confusion that this is the totality of the funds that then makes its way to that airport for that service. We have what are called “aeronautical fees”, or you might think of them as landing fees or gate fees, that come out of the airfare itself to pay for those services to the airport in question.
As I mentioned at the closing of my comments, when you shake it all down, the totality of suppliers and costs that go to the airport authority and suppliers we have on the ground, WestJet made, on average, for those first six months, $8.34 or $8.35 per passenger, or “per guest” as we call it. What that underscores is that it is a volume business. When we talk about a $5 shift here or a $5 shift there on an AIF, or some other charge, it is very important to us when you put it in the context of $8.34.
Going back to my earlier comments—and yes, I'm trying to grab everything I can possibly say at this moment—in terms of accountability under this legislation and the entities, yes, we're all going to be providing information, but as far as I can tell, there is only one entity that is going to be asked for compensation.