Chuck Gormley — After selling out 39 of their 41 home games and drawing a record 805,783 fans last season, the Flyers have hiked their ticket prices for next season by about 5 percent.
Ticket increases will range from $1.25 (from $23 to $24.25) for the worst seats in the Wachovia Center to $5 (from $100 to $105) for Victors Restaurant Row.All lower level seats will jump from $85 to $89 for non-season ticket holders and from $69 to $73 for season ticket holders.
That means season ticket holders will be paying an additional $164 for their 41-game packages.
Ticket hikes on the second level average $2 per seat, which amounts to $82 for the entire 2006-07 season.
The popular Family Sections, which consist of about 390 seats per game, will remain priced at $20 for adults and $10 for kids 12 and under.
Shawn Tilger, the Flyers’ vice president of marketing and communications, said the new ticket prices closely resemble the ones the Flyers had in 2002. The team lowered its ticket prices by about 5 percent following the 2004-05 lockout. [continue.]
Following the lockout the Flyers decreased ticket prices 5% while player’s salaries were rolled back 24%. A season after the Flyers exited the first round of the playoffs in a dismal showing and not going to have Forsberg for the first half of this season they are raising the ticket prices 5%?
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After that season they expect us to pay more? Play like you care and for god sake get some speed out there and ill pay more!
Yep, seemed like a lot nights the effort was not there.
But I guess when you sell out practically every game it’s easy to raise the prices.
But without Forsberg until January I wonder if the sellouts will be there for the first part of next season.