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Shouting works
— ask council

There's an old saying that if you
“shout loud and long enough
somebody will hear you.

For the last few years Castlegar
city council has been telling
whomever will listen: that’Pacific
Western Airlines’ service into

gar airport is inad:

This week council began to see
the results of its shouting. PWA
announced that effective Feb. 5 it
will add two more morning flights
between Castlegar and Vian-
couver, giving Castlegar two
flights to Vancouver daily except
Sundays when only the afternoon
flight .is scheduled.

The much-sought after increase
in flights didn’t come as a result of
any single letter or telephone call
between council and PWA. It was a
face;to-face meeting that perhaps
more. than anything else allowed
PWA and council to hear each
other's arguments.

That meeting came on Oct. 11
when Steve Bullock, PWA's direc-
tor fot the B.C. Interior, attended a
council meeting to address com-
plaints about his airli perfor-
mance.

Atthat meeting, both sides —

il and PWA — grew to under-
stand the position of the other.

Mr. Bullock explained to coun-
cil PWA's financial position and
responsibilities. He said PWA,
though owned by the Alberta
government, is in business to
make money like any other com-
pony. And though PWA made $6
million in 1982, all of it came from
invested income ond not from the
airline's operations.

He said the airline — like every
other airline in Canada — was hit
by a shorp decrease in

The airline went from operating
26 Boeing 737 airplanes to flying
just 19 in 1983. At the’ same time, it
laid ‘off 700 of its 3,700 employeees
in a bid to become “lean and
‘oggressive.”

With changes like thot, air ser-
vice to communities all over the
province was affected, Mr. Bullock

He pointed to the decreasing
Pp traffic at Castlegar air-
port, saying that the number of
people using the airline fell from
86,000 in 1981 to only 63,000 in
1983.

Council, for its part, pointed out
the airline was bound to have a

decline in air traffic when it cut the .

number of flights into Castlegar.

As well, council noted that
PWA rate increases and flight
scheduling were other reasons for
the decrease. it suggested the
airline could provide special day
fares and have more st on its
Vancouver flight, using Kelowna
as a “clearing house” and transfer
point to other centres.

Finally, council suggested the
airline might be better to use
smaller aircraft rather than fly
larger planes which are only one-
third full.

The hour-long discussion paid
off. PWA has increased ‘its flights
into Castlegar despite a drop in
passenger traffic.

At the same time, it has ap-
parently adopted a suggestion
from Ald. Marilyn Mathieson to of-
fer special mid-week fares to en-
courage more travel on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.

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