Baie-Comeau Airport is covered by a mandatory-taximeter territory.
The MRC identifies YBC at Pointe-Lebel, about 15 km from downtown Baie-Comeau. The CTQ requires taximeters throughout Manicouagan.
The same Québec day/night tariff applies to ordinary metered taxi trips in the mandatory-taximeter territory. If a provider offers a pre-arranged contract price, compare that quote with the meter estimate rather than treating the two as the same pricing method.
The fare period is chosen when the trip begins.
The day/night switch uses the local Québec trip-start time. A ride that begins before 11:00 p.m. remains a day-tariff trip even if it ends after 11:00 p.m.; a ride beginning at or after 11:00 p.m. uses the night tariff.
The physical meter switches between distance and elapsed time when traffic falls below the CTQ transition speed. TaxiRates models the route but does not invent extra waiting time simply because Google reports ordinary traffic.
A booked quote can legally differ from the regulated meter.
The CTQ allows a qualifying technology-based price or a properly documented contract price instead of the Commission tariff. For a normal hailed or person-to-person dispatched taxi trip, the regulated meter remains the reference used here. Always compare a pre-arranged quote with the TaxiRates estimate on the same basis.