As COVID-19 grounds travellers, Canada’s air traffic control agency is hiking airline fees by 30 per cent | The Star

Good to hear they are not wasting any time  jacking up prices……!

Wed., May 20, 2020 OTTAWA—Battered by the steep drop in air travel, the company that runs Canada’s air traffic control system is hiking fees by almost 30 per cent — costs ultimately passed on to passengers — after being unable to get federal help to cope with dramatic revenue losses.Nav Canada announced the increase Wednesday as plummeting air traffic hammers its bottom line.“We are proposing this only after pursuing all available alternatives, including government assistance,” Neil Wilson, the company’s president and CEO, said in an interview.“We will continue to pursue any other alternatives that are there to see if we can minimize or avoid the rate increase. But this is where we are at this point,” he said Wednesday.

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