Philip Lawrence at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On December 13th, 2024. See this statement in context.

December 13th, 2024 / 1:15 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

Thank you very much.

I find sometimes that when we talk in generalities, we lose some of the point. I want to take a bit of a different approach and actually go through a fare with you. This is an actual fare that was purchased to fly from Winnipeg to Victoria on WestJet, obviously, in December.

The base fare starts at $197. I think most would agree that's a reasonable price. After we go through all the add-ons, we're up to $274. If you would be good enough, I'd like to go through each one of these additional fees and have you explain what they are and whom they go to.

The first one I have is $30 for YQI and, in brackets, “other air transportation charges”.

Could you explain what that is and who benefits from that charge?

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