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ChazYEG said:
Dang it... missed on 8.2M passengers by a hair 😭

But when (if) transborder normalizes it also means easily surpassing pre pandemic levels, and I could also see maybe some extra international.
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The high point was in 2018 over 8.254 million, but that is also fairly close to the 2019 level. It is hard to say what would have been in 2020, if the disruption of COVID didn't happen. Maybe we would have surpassed that.

IMO it was probably harder for us to come back than the bigger airports, because there were more restrictions on flights from here then. However, I believe the number of international passengers has also recovered now.
 
Heard an unsettling comment today that Calgary is lobbying against the RCAF tanker base being put here in Edmonton, I wouldn’t put it past them, they cant seem to accept that maybe this would be good for us and allow it.

If true Edmonton needs to absolutely step up their game and not lose this.

Anyone hear something similar?
 
Glenco said:
I haven’t heard anything and I can’t imagine what their rationale would be. However I wouldn’t put it past them.
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I’m sure they’d make some argument about being the aerospace Center. Also that military spending being concentrated in Edmonton.

I’d have to think though that that airport is just too busy and with the altitude there might even be a weight penalty at take off there which wouldn’t be ideal.

Still wouldn’t put it past them at all.
 
Edmonton has a smaller/less busy airport which is further away from the city, but is also closer to CFB Cold Lake where the CF-18s (and eventually F-35s) are based. It is the objectively better location for the tanker base on paper.
That being said, if this rumour is true, I wouldn't be surprised nor can you really blame Calgary... it's not about not wanting to admit Edmonton is the better location for it, it's about city lobbyists doing their job and lobbying for something to be in their city as opposed to another. You can't really be that mad at that, and anyways I highly doubt their efforts will be successful. We're getting mad at nothing here. My money is all-in on the tankers still being based at YEG.
 
blue12 said:
Edmonton has a smaller/less busy airport which is further away from the city, but is also closer to CFB Cold Lake where the CF-18s (and eventually F-35s) are based. It is the objectively better location for the tanker base on paper.
That being said, if this rumour is true, I wouldn't be surprised nor can you really blame Calgary... it's not about not wanting to admit Edmonton is the better location for it, it's about city lobbyists doing their job and lobbying for something to be in their city as opposed to another. You can't really be that mad at that, and anyways I highly doubt their efforts will be successful. We're getting mad at nothing here. My money is all-in on the tankers still being based at YEG.
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I have no idea whether the rumour is true either, but for this and other reasons it does make sense for this to be here. I don't feel the city lobbyists just doing their job is a good argument, but if that is the argument then they should not be surprised next time something is to be located there if others lobby against it even if it makes sense. So do they really want to go down this path?
 
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David A said:
Comes from years of Edmonton getting screwed by you know who.
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Always someone's fault - blame the UCP, blame Trump - always someone who is at fault for Edmonton "getting screwed". Victimization is never a good development / growth strategy - maybe unionized public worker Edmonton needs to vote for more business friendly civic leaders and trying to be more competitive and learn how to play the game. But that would take balls - its easier to blame "you know who".
 
I don’t think Edmonton would do much better if they were non-union. The name of the game is corporate welfare. Should Edmonton subsidize industries to stay here two years?
 
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