OK but please sit down and try to calm ..downbylo wrote: ↑ I already explained that to you and even did the math. Let me try again. More slowly...
1. "an Airbus A320 full of passengers travelling from Toronto to Vancouver, for example, would pay $1,764.15 in fees to do so." That's the per-aircraft fee.
2. Then I looked up the capacity of an A320, "An A320 typically seats 150 passengers."
3. Then I discounted that for C-19, "at 50% capacity due to C-19 distancing."
4. Then I pro-rated it, "that's $24 per passenger."
5 And finally calculated it as a percentage to show just how absurd it is to extrapolate as you did, "So a 1/3 increase in NAVCAN fees would add a whopping $8 to the airfare, i.e. less than ½%."
The article you linked-to is dated 31May20. That's two days ago. That's 6 months after the date of the last item you linked. That's 3 months after 01Mar20 and it's 2½ months after C-19 lockdowns began in Canada. So they've had plenty of time to [your words] "guess what COVID and airline shutdowns were."
Moreover the article says, "Most of the increases for various ATC services will come into effect Sept. 1, assuming the proposal survives the 60-day comment period." Now they don't explicitly say what year that "Sept 1." is but I'll place my bet on 2020.
Try again
If NAV CAD calculated their cost per aircraft the increase should not be that big. Besides all the costs there seem to be per ton
Your advanced and unprecedented math showing the cost per passenger proves me wrong but it does not justify the increase that NAV Canada is pushing for which I am saying it is nonsense
There is annual fees there that are probably paid by now,the first quarter just ended and it is probably paid for already
I don't have the time to dig this now but my guess is that they are increasing the costs (like many others) because they can not because the have to
As AC is keeping the passengers' moneybecause they can
If they need money they can do what they just did https://www.timescolonist.com/business/ ... 1.24145120
and stop the nonsense ...so it is nonsense at a larger scale, even if you proved me wrong :-) which probably weights a ton for you but bears no weight for me
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