YXS Has Record Setting Year
Prince George B.C.- Administration at the Prince George Airport figured 2012 was going to be a record breaking year, and they were right.
Last year, passenger numbers hit a new high with 418,589 passengers using the airport. That’s 1,105 more passengers than the previous record which was set in 2008, a year which also had more services offered including the non-stop flights to Seattle and Calgary.
The 2012 numbers are up 4% over 2011, when 402,438 passengers used the airport.
Here are the numbers for the past few years:
- 2012 418,589
- 2011 402,438
- 2010 390,340
- 2009 376,030
- 2008 417,484
YXS Manager of Marketing and Communications, Lindsay Cotter says the economic activity in the north is the prime reason for the increase in traffic "Load factors are extremely high out of YXS and we continue to work with the carriers to add more frequency."
The Airport has been meeting with carriers to try and arrange a direct Prince George to Calgary flight, but so far, there has been commitment.
Comments
Bring back the PG to Victoria flight…
Your chart is incorrect for ’11.
If Westjet makes PG the regional hub for its new short haul carrier those numbers could be well above 550,000 but only if Westjet makes PG the regional hub. Wesjet is expected to make their decision in late Feb early March of this year and I am hoping that we get it.
Wow! That is like 3 more people a day! Party on!
It was all the Enbridge hearings and the media following them.
Uh, what about them BIG PLANES that was supposed to use the extended runway????
Guess they’re not coming……………
Yes Denaljo 3 additional passengers a day for one year. Or we could say 1.5 passengers a day in and out.
You can always bank on Prince George to take an insignificant increase like this and make it a major news announcement. They do the same with BC Transit in Pr George, and the Library, and Art Centre.
At the same time they remain silent on the Cargo Jets, the Runway Expansion, the Fueling Station, and the fact that their forcast from 2013 to 2016 is for minimal growth of approx 1.5%
Interesting times we live in.
They are delayed in Frankfurt. The Germans decided to fly to Anchorage instead.
Westjet regional hub = westjet prop jobs coming to PG. Air Canada already flies PG to Victoria! So you have to connect in Van, no big deal there.
Big jets aren’t coming anytime soon. But for some strange a airline does want to start chartering to bring folks to the crime capital of Canada where children rape children then at least we have the runway already in place.
“Air Canada already flies PG to Victoria!”
You obviously do not fly too often. having to change planes does not mean a direct flight in the air transportation world.
If we were to use your criterium, we can fly to anywhere there is an airport in the world from here.
Oh, BTW, in case you did not know, direct flight makes the trip about a three hour flight instead of a one hour flight by jet. Even if it was a turboprop, it would be a considerably shorter flight.
Direct to YVR is around 290 nautical miles and to YYJ it is about 315 nautical miles.
There should be a saving on the ticket price as well.
The change is about 43 passengers a day between 2011 and 2012. However, it is 3 a day between 2008 and 2012 figures.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Westjet started flying Dash 8’s out of PG (once they roll them out), similar to what Air Canada does.
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