Average Air Transportation Costs

Question

The student is looking for average air transportation costs (domestic) in Canada going back to 1990, and ideally monthly data. I checked the household spending survey and it wasn't there (that I could find), and I checked some other things, and the closest we could come was in CPI, but that was an index and he would prefer $

I checked the Canadian Transportation Agency web site, but couldn't see it there either.

Answer

Unfortunately, you are correct, the only thing that I found of interest in STC data was the Consumer Price Index's air transportation portion.

I did however perform a little more research, and I found an article related to JetsGo's bankruptcy and the Globe and Mail makes reference to Desjardins Securities publication "Airfare Pulse" which was used to compare fares over time.