The price of jet fuel has more than doubled from where it was a year ago, and the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport is one of many airports seeing changes linked to this.
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Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: May 10, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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The Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport will see some adjustments in its June flights because of fuel prices. (Marielle Guimond/Radio-Canada)
The price of jet fuel has more than doubled from where it was a year ago and the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport is one of many airports seeing changes, including flight cancellations, as a result.
Courtney Burns, the CEO of the Greater Moncton International Airport Authority, said while the changes are minor, there isn’t much the airport can do in the face of the global fuel crisis.
“We have a small lever we can pull in terms of rates and fees, but we try very hard not to do that,” she said. “It’s important to us to keep our costs low,
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