{"id":7840,"date":"2011-02-16T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2011-02-16T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:19:18","slug":"damned-good-reasons-for-canadians-to-fly-from-us-airports-instead-of-canadian-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/damned-good-reasons-for-canadians-to-fly-from-us-airports-instead-of-canadian-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Damned good reasons for Canadians to fly from US airports instead of Canadian airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/More+Canadians+crossing+border\/4293193\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a> talks about the rising number of Canadians who drive to US airports. After a recent experiment, I can understand why.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I had a notion to go to Boston for the coming long weekend. I checked the Porter Airlines website. Multiple flights from Toronto Island airport to Boston, great! So I started the booking process. Two people, flying from YTZ to BOS, return trip . . . how freaking much????<\/p>\n<p>Because I wasn&#8217;t booking more than two weeks in advance, the flights were going to cost $800+. That&#8217;d be bad enough, but that&#8217;s per person. One way. But the return flight was cheaper: a doddle at &#8220;only&#8221; about $690. So about $3,000 not counting taxes, fees, and surcharges.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines, if I booked right now could get us to Boston from Buffalo for $246 each. Return flight at the same price, or cheaper ($181 each) if we used JetBlue.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the added hassle of driving to Buffalo (and the border crossing, of course), I&#8217;d save nearly $2,000 on this little jaunt. If that&#8217;s at all representative, then it&#8217;s amazing that Canadian airlines are able to hang on to as much of the business as they currently do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article at the National Post talks about the rising number of Canadians who drive to US airports. After a recent experiment, I can understand why. Last weekend, I had a notion to go to Boston for the coming long weekend. I checked the Porter Airlines website. Multiple flights from Toronto Island airport to Boston, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-22s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}