30, 744 - passenger THE _ regional airport could hit the 100,000 passenger mark this _year based on a strong first. - . four- months’ of 2006, , says - manager. Laurie Brown... ~From: January to April NORTHWEST ments .were recorded, a i 097i increase over. the same = _period in 2005. e - tnamployment " That has Brown forecast-. | ing a growth of two to three per cent, enough to make the , _ 100, 000 level based on last ” year’s total of 98,369 pas- sen movements. oe “Certainly the figures are encouraging,’ ’ he said. “What this really. means -” is that load factors are up for - "” the‘airlines,”-said Brown of: “the number of people being “carried on each plane com- . pared to what .an., aircraft move- ° Laurie Brown “could carry... ; : Z . ‘range. This year it is in: the . neighbourhood. of 80 per cent and at that,’ the sane . = Safety first- ROBERT: STROMDAHL, left, and James , McGilivary go through the motions of cleaning up a mock gas. fee spill and protecting passersby from danger during a training session on fire and fuel safety for fuel industry employees i in the lot beside the Sears outlet May 3. Y ae SD “Last. year the’ load fac-_ a tors. were in the 75- per cent Pa ; TERRACESTANDARD [om are: happy. The yields are- good,” he added. ° Brown’ also noted that. Central Mountain Air, which -: operates flights between Terrace and Prince George ; has had its passenger count Steadily increase.: “Hawkair general manager - Tom Beshr said his compa- _ny’s load factors aré in the . 80 per cent range here and at around the 75 per cent level ‘on all of its routes. Just one’ flight. couldn’t land in the first four months _ because of weather and an- other was scrubbed because “ofa mechanical or other rea- .. per cent of the.cost but that © moves to. 10-per cent once’ son. of flights. missed fora Janu- ary to March period since : 2003. 0 us That’s ‘the. least amount. _ The installation of an ine , The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 24, 2006.- AIS irline rider numbers up | strument landing éystem in late 2002, allowing pilots to- make an approach at a lower altitude and closer to the air- port before making visual contact with the runway, is. ‘responsible. for reducing the number of missed flights. “In January 2002, ‘for ex- ample; there were 44 missed flights alone. - The. downside of hitting | . the 100,000 mark means the _ ” airport’s subsidy from a fed- . eral government program for _ the purchase of equipment is 2 reduced. Airports - below: ‘the 100,000 mark pay just -five ’ that level is reached. “We still have some nn ‘low down’ on. the priority , MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO install new and brighter run-* : way, lights. . needs but’ we're ‘probably- "Seku isa | purebred Canadian In a sadly:‘surrendered by. fis ‘previous owners.‘Tim a lifestyle would be ideal. This breed is one look ’ for great.adventures. Seku has a sweet heart'a | Jobless. rate takes a dip AREA’ 8S: has - " rate dropped but there are fewer ' people’ working this year than last and the number of. -people not looking for work show. the © has . increased, latest‘ labour force statistics. It’s a sign the region still relies on seasonal employ- ment which drops during the winter, says federal employ- . ment analyst Patrick Blaine McIntyre. And-it’s also a sign the. northwest lags significantly behind the rest of the prov- ince in generating employ- ment, he added. April’s - from. the 9.1 per cent in March and the 10.2 per cent for April.2005 for the area from the Queen -Charlotte - April. unemployment ° _rate was'7.7 per cent, a drop ° The ‘number of people who have taken themselves out of the work force is not. — part-of the equation which generates the unemployment rate percentage. — -It’s one. reason the unem-__ ployment rate dipped to 7.7 © per cent, said McIntyre. - McIntyre does predict numbers of workers will increase now that -spring is here and he’s expecting this - . year’s resumption of mineral exploration to help.. “Mineral exploration will begin to show and that in- cludes the service industry for the services these com- panies need,” he said. McIntyre is heartened by one factor-— the number of © people working full time is higher than last year.‘ Bee Islands to just this side of ae ‘Vanderhoof.- But the number of people working. in’ April 2005 was 43,900 compared to 42,100 — J this April, a drop of 1,800. 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