Transport committee  There are not many choices to make. We have limited places to get money, so as I mentioned previously, prepandemic, the airport ran almost as an independent business, even though it is owned and operated by the municipality. COVID showed the weakness of that. As the revenues dr

Transport committee  It does affect affordability. It's less obvious than it used to be, because it's hidden in the fee, but of course people know it's there. We have a fairly high passenger fee. It's $30 per person. It's high, and people know it's there. There's one thing I think, though, about req

Transport committee  The ACAP program has been amazing for us. We rely on it and, because it often offers a very high percentage of the money required, that speaks almost to what I was saying before. It's back to letting us know in a timely way that the money required to meet the regulatory requireme

Transport committee  We feel the weight of that. For the benefit of the other folks here, from Smithers, our nearest community, it's two and a half hours down the road to the nearest airport. We feel a bleed when people feel the attraction, as the previous witness said, of a cheaper flight. It's one

Transport committee  Thanks for the invitation to speak to you today about this. I'm going to focus, particularly, on our airport, which is the Smithers Regional Airport, or YYD. It's owned by the Town of Smithers, which is a community of about 5,400 people, with a service area of about 20,000, inclu