Originally Posted by
avi8orco
^ that....talked to a few passengers doing BUF turns, many Canadian. They mentioned they save into the hundreds by simply making the 1.5/2 hr drive from Toronto across the border to BUF and riding on us. Lots of big taxes to fly to the U.S. from YYZ and we get a lot of business from this.
More to the point, it is cheaper for the airline not to serve airports in Canada. It's more expensive for the customers because the airlines get taxed more to fly there. This is why currently there is no U.S. LCC that flies there (not JetBlue, nor Southwest, nor Spirit, nor Allegiant).