TERRACE STANDARD.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 16, 1998 - AY

oe BUSINESS REVIEW

Out & Airport loses revenue
About from airline changes

Fewer

tourists

THE NUMBER of re-
corded tourist visits here
was down about 13 per cent
in August from a year ago.

Just under 2,500 visitors
stopped at the Tourist In-
focentre that month, com-
pared to 2,867 in August,
1997, according to Terrace
Tourism Council coor-
dinator Maria McGowan.

The number of parties that
came to the infocentre, how-
ever, was up slightly to
1,494, implying smaller
groups of people here.

Part of the reason for the
decline is the centre’s sum-
nier student left earlier this
year, McGowan said.

But she said the rest of the
blame for the poor tourism
season falls on angling
closures ‘to protect
endangered coho, continu-
ing anxst about ferry
reliability, and the condition
of Hwy 37.

“Those three things com-
bined scared off a lot of
people,’? McGowan said.

For sale, but

no takers

TWO COMMERCIAL
properties owned by Rudon
Enterprises and the Ter-
race Co-op are still for sale.

They have not — repeat
not — been bought so far by
the Overwaitea / Save On
Foods group as one persis-
tent rumour would have it.

Rudon manager Russ

- Smith says their Hwy16

West property is for sale
and if a buyer does come,
~ they'll downsize operations.

He said they’ve had some
sniffs of interest; but no
deal. “*]
people looking,’ he said.
“And we heard it was Save
On Foods aad Overwaitea.
But there’s nothing firm or
even close,”’

One incentive to sell is
that the property tax assess-
ment on the land has
jumped dramatically since
the development of Cana-
dian Tire next door.

“Tf: the opportunity did
come we would definitely
sell,’’ he added. ‘We have
far too. much property and
shop space right now for the
way the economy is.”

Terrace Co-op’s Ed
Berney also reports dif-
ficulty selling the prime
downtown property, which
has been on the market
since the main store closed
in June, throwing 80 em-
ployees out of work,

“We haven't had any of-
fers on it,’’ Berney said.
“We've had — inquiries.
People looking for info on
size of the lot, size of the

building, layout that sort of |

stuff."

All but two of the in-
quiries were fom locals, he
added,

“T don’t see any reason to
dump it for a non-market
price,’ he added. ‘That
wouldn’t be in the best in-
terests of ihe membership.”’

Progress on
Charlottes

THE QUEEN Charlotte Is-
lands now has its own
federally-financed economic
develapment corporation.

The Haida Gwaii Com-
munity Futures Develop-
ment Corporation was of-
ficially declared in business
last week and will take a
key role in assisting and
lending money to existing
and new business op-
portunities there.

it joins 32 other such cor-
porations in the province,
one of which, the 16-37
Community Futures Devel-
opment Corporatian, is

- based in Terrace,

‘Money comes from the
federal government’s west-
ern economic diversification,
program. yee

CUTS AND changes in air-
line service here will trim
projected airport revenues
by nearly 15 per cent.

The airport — which is to
be taken over by a local
non-profit authority —
anticipates a decline in an-
nual revenues of around
$150,000 as a result of the
changes, said city economic
development officer Ken
Veldman.

The loss of money is be-
cause two airlines are going
to be paying less in landing
fees here.

Canadian Ajrlines has
switched from 737 jet ser-
vice to a sinaller Fokker F-
28 jet.

And Central Mouatain Air
has ended regular scheduled
service from here to Dease
Lake and Watson Lake, and
also its run east to Smithers
and Prince George.

The revenuc drop is a sig-

‘ nificant chunk of the air-

port’s projected revenue of
$1.1 million a year.

And that has implications
for the negotiations now un-
derway between the
Terrace-Kitimat Airport
Society and Transport Cana-
da to take over the airport.

Transport Canada has
agreed to contribute what it
would normally pay in
grants through to the end of
2000 to support airport
transfers. Any loss in
revenue would force up the
federal. government’s sub-
sidy and theoretically lead
to a larger grant,

But the local airport
society: will be on its own
after 2000.

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landing fees to the airport.

THE FOKKER F-28 jets now being used here by Ca-
nadian Airlines are smaller than the previous Boeing
737s, The result is less money paid by the airline in

Veldman said the revenue
trouble underscores the
city’s contention that the
airport needs title tc the
Crown ‘ands surrounding it
to ensure an extra source of
revenue. The city has been
unable to get the provincial
government to agree to such
a transfer.

Veldman said work is also
underway to replace the
routes flying north and east
vacated by Central
Mountain Air.

‘We're aclively involved
in marketing those routes Lo
some smaller third tier car-
riers to see who might be in-
terested in filling those
routes,’” Veldman said.

Although the Canadian
Airlines service is actually
improving to some degree
— flighis are now direct to

Vancouver and they’re three
ties a day in winter instead
of twice — the smaller size
of the 55-passenger plane
Means less money for the
airport.

‘In rough terms the F-28
brings in half of the landing,
fees that a 737 docs,”’ Veld-
man cxplained, ‘“That’s
where the bulk of that
$150,000 comes from.”

“'There’s not a heck of a
lot we can do there,’ he
added. “From a_ service
point of view they’re actual-
ly providing a better service
to the Terrace area.’’

He noted that although the
plane flies somewhat
slower, that may give pilots
more time to spot the run-
way on approach here, That
could translate into a better
record of landings and fewer
inissed approaches.

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