Small airports, those with less than a million passengers, will have their rent waived for three years and medium-sized airports, places with between one million and ten million passengers, will get a year of rent relief.
“It will take multiple, years of rent relief and probably have to go far beyond that to put airports in a financial position where they would be able to avoid rate increases,” he said.Alberta tries rapid COVID testing for travellers as number of cases spike to record levels “Those airports paid 0.3 per cent of the rent, and none of them were actually expecting to earn enough money next year that they would even have to pay it,” he said.He said the government needs to expand rapid testing programs and then ease the current quarantine requirements that are preventing people from flying.
“Rapid testing has proven effective in other countries, and shows real promise for helping our industry in getting back to work,” he said.He said some of his members have taken on multiple part-time jobs and are still struggling to pay their mortgages. He said not getting rapid tests to airports is a failure of the Liberal government.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner said if other countries can open up air travel with rapid testing there is no reason Canada can’t.