Feds need to step up support for airports as it copes with revenue shortfalls

Despite the catastrophic financial impacts of COVID-19, airports must continue to pay fixed costs to maintain safe, secure operations and facilitate safe passage for Canadians.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau, pictured heading to West Block, is fielding calls from the aviation industry to boost support amid a drop in operating revenues as a result of travel bans and restrictions. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANGELA GITTENS AND DANIEL-ROBERT GOOCH

April 22, 2020

The travel bans and precautionary measures that governments have in place are designed to help to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and form part of a global effort to flatten the curve and to prevent further outbreaks from overwhelming hospitals.

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