It's obviously the role of carriers to service our country, but our airports represent communities. What we do to support air service development is work with carriers and provide incentives to try to attract more air service to communities. We work with provincial governments. Many of our airports are municipal airports, and we're working with municipal airports. We're working with the federal government. Part of our role as airports across this country is to represent our communities and to advocate and push and develop the air service that's required, working with all partners. It's something we're very passionate about.
Certainly with the pandemic and the postpandemic recovery, there's been a challenge in regional and rural connectivity. As a system, we're back to about 100% this year in terms of passenger traffic, but there have been a lot of shifts. We're seeing larger aircraft and less frequency, and our regional airports are suffering.
Some of our smaller airports are at 70%, some 50%, some 30%. We've seen some dramatic market shifts: Airports that used to have over 10 flights a day are down to two or three. This impacts communities. Frequency is certainly a concern in rural and remote areas, as well as the cost of flying. That's something that we hear, being community entities. We're very close to our communities and we hear about this often.
We're working with premiers and we're working closely with all areas of government to try to develop the air service that Canadians require.