Wow… In the world of country music… that’s huge.. Bet ticket prices will be high…

She’s slated to play in Edmonton AB on May 18th, so its just a hop, skip, and a jump, to come to Prince George for May 21st.

And what will this great event cost the taxpayer?
Cheers

More importantly, Volbeat is here Mar 25.

Retired, why would it cost the taxpayer anything, and Weaksauce, what is a Volbeat?

Who is Carrie Underwood?

The more popular events like that which are put on at the CN Centre, the less will be left each year to pay for operating the Centre.

The problem is not with the acts which fill the house, but the acts which do not fill the house and are run anyway.

I think that Glen Mikkelsen has been doping a good job of getting more popular evetns into the Centre and suspect the costs associated with all those events, from lowest to highest attended have a net gain in the black rather than the red.

The taxpayer is funding the Cougars, not the popular country and western acts.

http://www.volbeat.dk/2/index.php

From the looks of it Volbeat s coming live to PG from beyond hell. ;-)

I mean when one has a country and western act coming in one has to bring in a retro Eurobeat group in … after all, that is PG, isn’t it ….. :-)

Can Steve Tyler be far away? ….. Yes …. revival time for Aerowsmith … minimum 20,000+ seats required probably.

Retired I’m with Gus, Glen does a bang up job booking great acts to generate a profit so the tax payers pay less for the multiplex.

sooooooooooooo excited, been listening to her since she won american idol so many years ago, so glad we are getting big names in PG again, THANK YOU

Perhaps she can dedicate the line “Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats…” to the current crop of municipal politicians and their Commonwealth, IPG and NDIT cronies!!

lmao ex-pat! Youre not suggesting that we start carving our names into the side of those pretty little SUVs are you?

Good news! Prince George deserves the best :)

WOW!!! great catch Glen… Tickets at whatever price will be gone in minutes

Any chance that we can get the Shinedown/Three Days Grace tour to come here as well this winter?

So far they only have US dates announced, but I can only imagine they will announce some in Canada as well.

Once these big name shows book Edmonton or Calgary, then they start to fill in the tour with the outlying area’s like, Grande Prairie, Prince George, Red Deer, etc;

I agree with Gus. The more shows we get that pay thier way, the better off the CN Centre is.

When it comes to the Cougar frachise CN Centre loses money big time.

If we had a performing arts center we could attract more of these artists.

JIM13135 – feel free to put up some money and get all your friends that want a performing arts centre to do the same.

I have no problem whatsoever with such a centre. Just don’t ask me to pay anything for it.

(I’m already forced to pay for an arena to subsidize some guys dream of owning a hockey team. Enough!)

Jim13135

There would not be enough seating at a PAC to attract to attract artists like this. Depending on the stage setup the CN Center can hold 3-5 thousand but the PAC only 1500. With ticket prices 80-140 at CN they would have to be 240-420 at the smaller venue to generate the same cash, not many people will pay that much.

yep, but if it wasnt for the hapless cats, we wouldn’t have the CN Centre venue. So the thanks to this pathetic organization was given about 15 years ago…… So isn’t it about time the management decide to put a winning product on the ice.

Sounds like the proposed PAC isn’t big enough….time for a change of plans perhaps. It is kind of tacky going to concerts in hockey rinks you know.

If I’m not mistaken, large concerts are held at hockey rinks in Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary. Not at Performing Arts Centres.

We already have a PAC. It’s called Vanier Hall.

It’s great to have big names come for concerts here but the sound in that CN centre is a joke. Why not let them play at the new police station — probably better sound there.

Jim13135, having been to many concerts in many different arena’s, Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary, Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George and Dawson Creek to name a few, along with a few football stadiums as well, I certainly wouldn’t consider myself, the shows I’ve seen or the venues I’ve seen them in to be “tacky”!

As far a Performing Arts Centre, we simply can’t afford to build one large enough to accomodate headline shows such as Carrie Underwood. There’s a reason why big name shows perform in places like Vancouver’s Roger’s Arena, Edmonton’s Rexall Place and Calgary’s Saddledome.

If you are concerned about being tacky, please remember that you live in a democracy. If you don’t want to go to a concert in a hockey rink, you don’t have to go!!

Me, I think that I’ll join the other tacky people at Carrie Underwood’s soon-to-be- sold-out show at CN Centre!!

If we had a performing arts centre we would be further in debt. If the concerts were such a big money issue, private individuals would get involved and build one for themselves so stop with the smoke screen B-shit. Big acts don’t want to come here because they have to walk out in a blizzard when they get to the DAMN airport. Big cost but Some international airport huh??

PG Airport is a Regional Airport, not an International Airport. They call it International because it makes them feel good.

Same as saying we are BC’s Northern Capital. Says who???. Where is the Southern Capital Kelowna??? Eastern Capital, Valemount???

Like University Hospital of Northern British Columbia. Duhhhhhhh. What was wrong with PG Regional Hospital???

Supertech. These big acts travel by bus, and by truck. I doubt if any of them fly. If they do it would only be the performers. There are no direct flights from Edmonton to Pr George, they would have to fly to Vancouver, then to the Regional Airport in Prince George BC.

Back in the eighties there was talk of jet-ways (the covered bridges from the terminal to the aircraft) at the Prince George Regional Airport (YeXe$) but…….

I remember that talk very well……

There was also talk of finishing the old half of the terminal building to expand the departure area. But, hey …. we are only passengers ….. not like that cargo that is bringing in 10 airbus flights a day ….. :-Þ

Jetways are not usually built unless an airport has in excess of 400,000 passengers a year. Inbound/outbound?? Who knows. In any event there is a certain number of passengers that are required in order to make the expenditure cost effective.

The Prince George airport has not reached the **magic number**.

If Westjet goes to the Dash Eights next year to service Prince George, then I suspect you will never get a Jetway here.

oh gawd – leave it to a concert announcement to get Palupo on another rant about his hatred of our airport. next we are going to hear that performers wont come here because of the floride in the water – yawn…

Congrats to the CN Centre crew on another big name coming to our city.

Well, I don’t know what their passenger numbers are but the Whitehorse International Airport has a jet-way. They actually have international flights, also flights to Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.

And the first hour of parking is free!

Wrong Palopu! As soon as you fly direct to another country like the good ole USA and Mexico and are staffed by the Canadian Border Services Agency you are an International airport. As a matter of fact NAV Canada classes Prince George International Airport as an Airport of Entry.

The departure area is huge compared to 15 years ago as well as the baggage pickup area which was upgraded from 2003 – 2005.

I’m not a Country fan by any means but I do hope The City of PG doesn’t hose the Country fans like they did the Rock fans when Kiss came to town. The price for Kiss tickets was ridiculously inflated compared to other small places that they went to.

As far a Performing Arts Centre, we simply can’t afford to build one large enough to accomodate headline shows such as Carrie Underwood. There’s a reason why big name shows perform in places like Vancouver’s Roger’s Arena, Edmonton’s Rexall Place and Calgary’s Saddledome.

Why can’t we afford it? The government of BC can afford BC Place? People travel from all over to attend those major concerts in Vancouver….build a proper PAC here that is big enough and people would come to PG to see Paul McCartney, Elton John and other headline acts. When it isn’t being used for shows they could put down ice and use it for rec hockey, or host conventions…..

Jim 13135. So you want a PAC that when it isn’t being used for shows they could put down ice and use it for rec hockey.

Do you mean kinda like CN Centre in reverse?

Like BC Place in reverse…for a change they could build something significant up here in the hinterlands……we do pay taxes too why should we always have to travel south for these venues?

Where are all the major conventions and concerts held? Whistler…Vancouver….build it and they will come.

The current proposed PAC is just another Vanier Hall, think big. :-)

“….build it and they will come. “

In case you haven’t noticed, that philosophy has not worked out well for us.

Like others have said, if you want a PAC and it’s a slam dunk in terms of economic viability, then private money should fund it.

Well Johnny…if you’d rather see the province invest everything in the lower mainland I guess we could wait for a private investor. I was kind of thinking they spent millions on the Sea to Sky…BC Place, and numerous other things to the benefit of southern BC….why not invest some up here?

If you don’t ask it will never come…think cancer clinic..university….

Okay, I’m asking for a 45,000 seat football stadium and a NCAA football team to play in it.

Maybe I’m thinking to small. How about a 75,000 seat stadium and a EPL team to play in it.

Oh what the heck. Prince George needs a 42,000 seat baseball stadium and lets buy a MLB team to play in it.

If you don’t ask…….please Santa….

Interceptor
. I dont hate the airport. What I hate is the fact that these entities operate basically on thier own, on tax dollars and have no responsibility to those who pay them. In addition I dont like the way they BS average citizens who dont know what is actually going on. (you would fall into that category)

No Way. For your information there are many Airports in Canada that have international flights, have Canada Border Services, and classified as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA, however that doesnt make them an International Airport.

There are 13 International Airports that are officially designated as such by Transport Canada: St John’s, Gander, Halifax, Moncton, Fredericton, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver.

So thats that. Prince George is not officially recognized by Transport Canada as an International Airport.

So Newfoundland has 2

New Brunswick has 2

Quebec has 2

Ontario has 2

Alberta has 2 …….

I do not see the logic based on either location or regional population.

What ever happened to Clarabell … I mean Mirabel?

There are international airports as well as airports of entry is an airport that provides customs and immigration services for incoming flights.

Here is a list for Canada. Not sure how complete it is.

Calgary YYC
Charlottetown YYG
CranbrookYXC
EdmontonYEG
FrederictonYFC
GanderYQX
HalifaxYHZ
HamiltonYHM
IqaluitYFB
KelownaYLW
Regional Municipality of WaterlooYKF
LondonYXU
MonctonYQM
MontrealYUL
Montreal / LongueuilYHU
MuskokaYQA
OttawaYOW
Prince George YXS
QuebecYQB
ReginaYQR
SaskatoonYXE
St. John’s YYT
TorontoYYZ
TorontoYTZ
TrentonYTR
VancouverYVR
VictoriaYYJ
WhitehorseYXY
WinnipegYWG
YellowknifeYZF

Jetways can be a pain in the butt, was stuck on a plane for over half an hour in Vancouver a couple of years ago when it broke down part way to the door,were about ready to push us back out when they got it fixed.
Never had a problem with the stairs at PG, in fact when they put two sets of stairs up the loading and unloading is way faster. Have to be a pretty big wimp to whine about a 15 second walk to the terminal door:)

So anyway, isn’t it cool that Carrie Underwood is coming to CN CENTRE!

Jeeeeesh!!!

Gus. What part of my post do you not understand.

There are 13 International Airports in Canada, that are recognized as International Airports by Transport Canada. I listed them in my post.

Those other airports that you list call themselves International Airports, but in fact they are not, even though they do handle some international flights, have customs clearance (sometimes) and are defined as an airport of entry by Nav Can.

We seem to be splitting hairs here, however if you are not recognized as an International Airport by Transport Canada, then you are not.

…….Carrie …….Underwood…….I guess her private jet will land at our airport, thus the raging debate fits here somehow?

I feel sorry for the lonely, bitter and unhappy old men who have nothing better to do than manufacture things to constantly criticize.

Who? I couldn’t name a single one of his songs.

There are many lists, Palopu ….. Transport Canada’s is only one of them … and I cannot find a list of TC international airports. So where is your list?

According to Transport Canada, there are 26 airports which are part of the “National Airport System”. Four of them are in BC – Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and PG. There are two in Alberta. One in each of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Four in Ontario. Three in Quebec. Three in NB. One in Nova Scotia and one in PEI. Two in Newfoundland and one in each of the three territories.

All the BC and Alberta ones have Canadian border services available for scheduled flights as do some, but not all of the others across Canada.

That means the flights could come in from any country.

There are only 8 airports in Canada which have US preclearance facilities – Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax.

There is no definition on Transport Canada’s site for “international airport”. Perhaps the term comes from an organization such as the International Civil Aviation Organization. I mean, why would an airport be called international if one cannot preclear to a US airport at the least?

Here is an interesting article about the term from Burlington, Vermont
http://www.7dvt.com/2009why-it-called-burlington-international-airport-if-you-cant-fly-another-country

Once upon a time, I was told by a former Transport Canada employee, that an airport had to have at least a once a week regularly scheduled international flight in order to be deemed “international”. Prince george has a seasonal once a month flight to Mexico, yet the sign says international. Either things have changed or YXS is full of BS.

Oh, and Lenny, obviously your the only one on here that gives a crap about Carrie Underwood.

wanna bet?

Well, I see there is you and four others.
Would that cover the spread ?

Middle finger. I beleive that you are right, and that is why they tried to get the daily flights to Seattle. If they could have pulled it off they would have been given the designation of an International Airport.

As it now stands they are a regional wannabe international airport.

Gus. Your list of 26 Canadian Airports covers the originall 26 Airport Authorities set up in Canada by the Federal Government. This has nothing to do with whether or not they are International. Being an international airport is a different kettle of fish.

“Being an international airport is a different kettle of fish.”

I know that, Palopu. I asked you what that differnt kettle of fish was but did not see a response. Go to the Transport Canada site and you will see no list of international airports. The feds do not seem to have a standard.

A good standard to start with might be to have someone on staff whoi is at least on standby so that they can be brought in when there is a situation such as YVR found itself in. Plenty of people who speak Chinese,but no one who speaks Polish, yet there are flights from Poland which land there.

It is a safety and service standard that IATA might have for those airprts whcih want to call themselves “inernational”. In my walking through the internet I have foud one standard, for instance, which required handling 2 million passengers, for instance.

Another site had PG down for being able to handle planes coming into PG as a port of entry but limited to 15 people.

There are lots of claims and standards …. the least I expct of someone is to identify which standard is being quoted and link to the information source. Other than that, I do not accept it. Too many people cary their own dictionary and bok of standards in their head and expect others to believe them.

That is actually a major part of the communication problem we have these days. We are not talking the same language when we speak to each other.

I mean, when it all gets condensed into what is important is not how long your thing is … I mean the runway …. or whether the name is PG International … it is what service can we provide.

I think that is clear in both cases …. runway and port of entry but not a preclearance port.

One step at a time. We have a population of some 100,000+ which our airport services as a regional airport. We are not Atlanta.