University of Manitoba

I had started my career as an entrepreneur with a dairy queen with my cousin and then with Car Wash.

We got out of the Dairy Queen and had the car washed, but I was looking to find work, employment elsewhere, and decided I needed to go back and upgrade my education by getting a master's in business, which I did from the Asper School of Business, the University of Manitoba.

And upon completion, it was summertime when that program wrapped up and it's tough to find decision makers who were maybe looking to hire people in the management field at that time.

So I figured, well, I'll just enjoy a few more weeks of summer and I will wait for September to roll around.

He added that investors who operate the airports will have other ways to make money, including retail at the airports where proficient and experienced operators can derive revenue and therefore hold down the raw cost of flying for passengers.

Barry Prentice, a professor at the University of Manitoba's Asper School of Business, said restraining airport fees still leaves many areas where private investors operating airports can increase costs to fuel shareholder profits.

These include parking fees, costs to rent concessions, and even fees seen in places like the United Kingdom that charge people to drop someone off at the airport.

It's really hard to accept the notion that everything is going to be fine, he said.