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Old Posted Aug 7, 2010, 5:35 AM
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Naturally proponents want to see scheduled service back at YXD, it was convenient, especially for regional travel. For us when the service ended most of our discretionary travel to Edmonton ended. Too much time wasted on airline check-in rules, security on both ends and the expensive and lengthy taxi trip from YEG to downtown Edmonton. Which is $50 if the taxi driver doesn't try to scam you, which is about half the time.

Quikair would hold the plane propellers spinning if they saw somebody pull into the parking lot. For regional travel nothing will ever match what YXD offered even in its later years. This service wasn't detrimental to anybody and contrary to the Edmonton Airports propaganda these Quikair and Peace Air passengers were not connecting to international flights and depriving YEG of new exotic destinations.

And before somebody says HSR, given Edmonton Airports found tiny turboprops terrifying do you think for a second they and by extension the City of Edmonton would tolerate HSR to Calgary and passengers potentially catching flights out of YYC? Potentially depriving YEG of service they would never attract in the first place.
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