Best flight deals take off out of Vancouver these days
Best flight deals take off out of Vancouver these days "The pricing out of Bellingham is not as good as it used to be," said Joan Zondervan, a travel agent at Carlson Wagonlit Travel in Abbotsford. dollar two years ago. flights to Canadian flights than it used to be. can often be cheaper," said Neil Bhapkar, Toronto spokesman for Flight Network. "But we
cheap jerseys let our customers know there's no point in going to Buffalo these days." Some Province readers were discovering the same thing. "Flying abroad from YVR is the same as flying from Seattle," said Monish Bhatia of Abbotsford on Twitter. "Why drive there?" "Flying from YVR (Vancouver) to MCO (Orlando, Fla.) was cheaper than BLI (Bellingham) or SEA (Seattle) to MCO," tweeted Theresa Bui. Last year, the number of passengers boarding at Bellingham slipped to about 540,000, a 9.6 per cent drop from 2013, said Daniel Zenk, director of aviation for the airport, where the majority of passengers, about 55 per cent, are Canadian. The lower Canadian dollar "is one of the reasons, definitely," he said. Zenk also attributed the downturn to changes in the destinations served by Bellingham because of airline consolidations and mergers. Allegiant Air dropped a non stop Reno, Nev., route, and Frontier Airlines and its non stop Denver flight pulled out of Bellingham altogether. Non stop flights to Honolulu, Maui and San Diego will fly only November through April. "For 2015, I suspect we will see another decrease in our numbers," he said. Meanwhile, traffic was up more than seven per cent last year at both Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver "We do leak (passengers) to Sea Tac and Vancouver," said Zenk. "And to Abbotsford, but it's not that high capacity." Vancouver airport reached a record number of "enplaned and deplaned" passengers, at 19.3 million, last year, up from 17.9 million in 2013. airports measure only enplaned passengers, while Canadian airports include both.) "It's difficult to assume or correlate if there is an increase in passenger traffic due to a decrease at Bellingham airport," said Vancouver airport spokesman Terry Chou. Parm Sidhu, general manager at Abbotsford airport, which serves about 500,000 enplaned and deplaned passengers a year, said he expects that number to rise with the addition of a third non stop daily WestJet flight to Edmonton in June and the return after eight years of Air Canada, with a non stop flight to Toronto, also in June. But he said he's not certain a lower loonie will cause a boom. "It's too early to tell (if it has boosted passengers)," he said. "That's what we would like to have
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