Friday, May 04, 2007

Leafs Raise Ticket Prices

Season ticket holders will pay nearly six per cent more to watch the Leafs at the Air Canada Centre in 2007-08. The highest priced tickets have been raised the most with platinum and gold sides going up to $182 each from $171.52. The lowest priced seats, purples, have been raised to $37 from $34.70.

Is the price increase justified? Well of course. According to MLSE President Richard Peddie:

"Show me businesses that have not passed on costs of the last three, four years," said Peddie. "That's not being greedy. I think in real dollars that dollar today is still worth less in real buying terms to us than it was four years ago because we're not keeping up with inflation. I think our behaviour in the last couple of years has not been greedy at all."


Well at least he didn't suggest that the tickets were a great entertainment value. I guess he may have seen the ESPN Fan Satisfaction Ranking that I had posted earlier on the affordability of Leaf tickets.