Albertans booking summer vacations both near and far are paying a hefty price for plane tickets.
“Prices are not inching up; they are leaping up from what they used to be. They’ve doubled, if not sometimes tripled,” said Jennie Mohamed, manager at Parklane Travel in Calgary.
“I’m afraid to make that announcement to my clients because they are going to say: ‘Are you kidding me?’”
Mohamed, who has more than three decades of experience in the industry, said western Canadians are getting hit especially hard.
“Western Canada has a monopoly mainly of two airlines — we have WestJet and Air Canada — and that was allowed to happen without recourse,” Mohamed said, adding she’s worried the higher costs will…