Although the Island airport has been there for 82 years, for much of that time it was used by relatively quiet small private and corporate planes. Most of the airlines using it in the 1960s to 1980s had limited success and didn't last long nor did they create much aircraft and passenger volumes. The rapid redevelopment of Toronto's with residential high-rise apartment buildings throughout the 1960s to the present day preceded the expansion of the airport and the successful Porter airline with more than one hundred flights daily. The excellent Dash 8-Q400 aircraft are relatively quiet in their landing approach but extremely noisy on take-offs with the sound reverberating along the waterfront curtain of buildings with hundreds of thousands of residents. Unfortunately, the whole history of the convenient Billy Bishop airport has been one of conflict and intrigue involving politicians, appointed bureaucrats, corporate interests and resident groups.

(Written on 19/07/2021)(Permalink)

I wonder how long the enhanced service provided at the Island airport will last at the expensive Pearson facility. Also, how does their business plan work with the need to hire more jet trained mechanics, air crew, maintenance services, customs, etc. in a high cost airport, as well as the huge competition from Air Canada, Westjet and other airlines.

(Written on 17/07/2021)(Permalink)

Surely this also applies to NZ which is heavily dependent on international trade by air and water.

(Written on 09/01/2021)(Permalink)

One has to feel sympathy for the workers in Washington as they watch incompetent leadership destroy their major industry but no sympathy for this heavily tax supported corporation which maliciously set out to destroy Canada's developing commercial airline industry. With the assistance of Donald Trump's illegal tariffs, they succeeded but still couldn't preserve their own flawed organization.

(Written on 23/10/2020)(Permalink)

The incident was created by one passenger who apparently refused to wear a mask yet the first video started with another woman sitting without a mask and eating prior to take-off. During the interaction, two male passengers interceded with neither wearing a mask. Clearly more information is needed to understand this siutation.

(Written on 23/10/2020)(Permalink)

In Canada he would not have the right to ride a bus without a mask. Hope he has a good bicycle or sturdy shoes for walking!

(Written on 31/07/2020)(Permalink)

Over the years. Bombardier employed tens of thousands of highly skilled and highly paid workers around the world including Montreal, Toronto, North Bay, Kingston, etc. These workers spent most of their earnings in Canada contributing to its wealthy economy and enriching the municipal, provincial and federal tax bases. Political and corporate mishandling has cost us many of these jobs but thousands are still employed by the new owners, building aircraft, trains, subways around the world. Our tax money was not wasted and has been repaid in many ways.

(Written on 12/06/2020)(Permalink)

Bombardier created one of the best mid size aircraft currently available and being purchased by a growing number of international airlines. It's demise is largely due to the illegal tariffs imposed by a disfunctional American president to protect the equally disfunctional Boeing corporation from any real or perceived competition. Together, they effectively destroyed Canada's aerospace industry by shutting it out of the US market and scaring off other potential buyers. The self-serving incompetence of the Bombardier family also played a major role in destroying one of the biggest and most progressiver transportation companies in the world in just a few short years.

(Written on 12/06/2020)(Permalink)

Amazingly, it did while the original censored comments sent minutes earlier probably won't appear until after this issue is forgotten...!

(Written on 09/01/2020)(Permalink)

Why would this flight be targeted or mistaken when it was on its normal daily flight path and flying away from the city at the same time as dozens of flights were in the same vicinity? It seems more likely that it could have been intentional and designed to stir up more trouble in the region. This narrows down the likely culprits and makes the Iranian regime less likely to benefit.

(Written on 09/01/2020)(Permalink)