Services available

• AWIS - Aviation Weather Information Services
• AAS - Airport Advisory Service - MF 118.5 MHZ
• RAAS - Kelowna (when tower closed) 119.6 MHZ
• VCS - Vehicle Control Service
• Flight Planning
• FISE - Flight Information Services Enroute 122.5 126.7 MHZ
• FISE - Oliver RCO 126.7 MHZ
• FISE - Princeton RCO 126.7 MHZ
• FISE - Kelowna RCO 126.7 MHZ
• VFR Flight Planning
• Aviation weather observations at Penticton airport 24 hours

The station provides 24 hour service.

• Other Information

• TAF issued at 0500, 1100, 1700, 2300
• Airport Operator - Transport Canada (250) 492-6042
• Fuel available 100LL and JB contact (250) 493-5323

Economic Impact

Gross Revenues

The Penticton Airport generates an estimated $24.73 million for the provincial economy.   Of that total, the revenues generated directly by organizations at Penticton Airport in 1998 are estimated to be $12.6 million.  The Air carriers/Charter operator sector contributed the largest component, generating an estimated $8.5 million of direct revenues last year.

The direct revenues for Penticton Airport have been calculated using the data provided by the businesses and organizations located at the airport.  Some participants could not provide details regarding their operating revenues due to their company policies concerning confidentiality.  Both scheduled air carriers fall into this category, and detailed estimates of their annual revenues have been prepared based on outbound passenger statistics (by destination), and surveys of the lowest fares available at random dates throughout the year.

A summary of the direct, indirect, induced, and total estimates of gross revenue contributed by each airport sector is provided in the table to the below.

Gross Revenue in $ millions

The survey data collected from the study participants has been adjusted to remove any incidence of double counting which occur when one airport business is a supplier to another airport business.  For example, aircraft refueling is done almost exclusively by the on-site re-fueler, Spencer Aviation.

Employment

Penticton Airport activities sustain the equivalent of 247.1 full-time jobs.  This estimate includes the full-time equivalent of all employment, including part-time and seasonal, generated by airport businesses and organizations.

Provincial multipliers have been used to estimate the total employment generated by the airport, based on the direct revenues produced by each airport organizations. The multipliers are  applied to the direst gross revenue amounts (expressed in $millions) for each airport sector to determine the direct, indirect and induced employment estimates.

The "survey" employment figures presented in the table at the right represent the data provided by the study participants.  They differ somewhat from the direct employment figures which were calculated using the provincial multipliers.

The variance between the two sets of data includes the off-site personnel employed in support of the larger organizations' activities at Penticton Airport. (i.e., Canadian Helicopters, AirBC, Central Mountain Air, Canadian Regional Airlines, Transport Canada, Nav Canada and the Ministry of Forests.

Employment (FTEs)

A breakdown of the employment estimates of each of the airport's sectors is presented in the following table.

Notes:

Survey Employment: the sum of the employment data provided by survey respondents.

Direct Employment: employment directly attributable to airport activities, calculated using provincial multipliers per $million of gross revenue.

Total Employment: the sum of Direct, Indirect and Induced employment.

Gross Domestic Product

The total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) generated by Penticton Airport is estimated to be $11.1 million.  This figure represents the value-added, or primary inputs, and is the sum of all payments made to the factors of production (profits, wages, raw materials and taxes.)

While gross revenues are equal to the total generated by each producer within the industry, GDP factors out the payments made between suppliers, and represents the sum of the net contributions made by each organization.  Just as a country's GDP is the total of all value-added, or primary inputs, for all industries within that nation's economy, the calculation of the GDP for Penticton Airport in this study is the sum of the value-added generated by each of the organization within the airport

The direct, indirect and the induced measures of the GDP produced by the commercial activities at Penticton Airport have been calculated by applying the applicable provincial multipliers to the direct revenues generated by each airport sector.

Gross Domestic Product $millions

The table below provides a summary of the direct, indirect, induced and total GDP for each of the Four sectors at Penticton Airport.

Vehicle parking rates Penticton Airport

$3.00 per day
$15.00 per week
$40.00 per month

Contact the Airport Manager's office for annual

vehicle parking fees rates and details.

Airport Location Map