YXS saw fewer people fly in 2019 than 2018
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PRINCE GEORGE–In 2019 the Prince George Airport (YXS) saw 496,714 people board planes.
The number was 1.9 percent less than what they saw in 2018 with 506,486 people boarding flights that year. According to Gordon Duke, CEO of the Prince George Airport Authority, “the regional economy is impacting our passenger activity…comparable airports across Canada saw similar decreases in their passenger numbers in 2019 as airlines had to rework their networks to make up for the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft earlier in the year, which meant aircraft availability was stretched thin to make up for it.”
Highlights in 2019 for the airport included, Pacific Coastal Airlines increasing their service by adding a second daily flight to Victoria, along with the addition of Saturday service. Air North also announced weekly scheduled service to Whitehorse, Kelowna and Vancouver on a 737-700.
The Prince George Airport Authority spent close to $11 million on capital improvements such as the enhanced safety and operational capacity on the runways and aprons, expanding the long term parking lot, and constructing a new food and beverage cafe.
