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Because the ferry existing at the time could only carry a few passengers, and not very comfortably, it was assumed that preventing the bridge from being built would put a halt on any introduction of new airline service to the airport. There is no way that the old Maple City could handle the...

I am pretty sure the city must agree to any changes to the Tri-Partite Agreement (along with Port Authority and the federal government). The Tripartite Agreement was changed with the City's agreement (in 2003?) to allow the construction of a bridge. The City's agreement would be needed to...

1000 more feet would make it the same length as LCY (London City Airport). LCY can handle Embraer 170/190s and BAe 146s, http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/bombardier-in-advanced-talks-for-all-business-class-cseries-order-366588/ According to this, Bombardier is working on...

Robert Deluce at the Empire Club earlier this week: http://www.vvcnetwork.ca/empireclub/20120117/ (webcast)

Toronto-Washington-Atlanta-Orlando would be legal for them to fly, but they just couldn't sell any tickets between US points. So they could sell Toronto-Orlando or Toronto-Atlanta, but not Washington-Atlanta. Newark-Orlando or Newark-Atlanta might be better as they have a number of...

There just isn't really a lot more capacity at YTZ. So any new planes, jets or otherwise, in the medium term would almost certainly be applied to non-YTZ routings. Expansion at YTZ could happen eventually with an expanded terminal, the tunnel built and US preclearance. However, all of...

It will be interesting to see if they order new planes, and whether they order more Q400s or something else like the C-series.

The Q400 has a maximum range of 2500km, but this requires a 4600 foot runway. The runway at YTZ is only 4000 feet, so they are limited generally to flying to destinations within about 1000km. However, they could stop somewhere on the way (such as Newark or Washington) to get to Florida or...

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1113684 Porter is raising the rent on its various tenants (around 25-30 of them, apparently) and the two flying schools are being evicted.

https://www.flyporter.com/About/News-Release-Details?id=184&culture=en-CA Over two million passengers last year. Most of the flights that I took in 2011 (mostly YTZ to YOW or YHZ) were full or close to it. I came into YTZ on Wednesday night and the ferry terminal was packed -- not sure...

Porter has announced its spring schedule to Myrtle Beach. Service will begin February 16th and will run until May 21st with two weekly flights (four weekly flights in March and April). https://www.flyporter.com/About/News-Release-Details?id=175&culture=en-CA

A congestion charge for downtown might be a good idea if the revenues were dedicated to improving the road networks -- such as extending Front Street to the Gardiner or expanding/rebuilding the Gardiner.

Porter is adding yet another flight to Boston, bringing them to seven per day. https://www.flyporter.com/About/News-Release-Details?id=173&culture=en-CA The new flight is at 1pm out of Toronto and 3:20pm out of Boston. Weekend service will remain the same with 2 flights on Saturday and 5 on...

The modal split for transit would likely change. If there was significant business move to the outer regions, GO Transit could, for example, increase its inter-urban service. It is also easier to expand and build new highways and other car services in the suburban areas (although they are...

One solution to the congestion in downtown Toronto would be to increase business taxes on office space in the downtown core significantly. This should cause a number of firms that don't really need to be downtown to relocate to less expensive premises outside of the core. As the number of...

Best-ever October with 67.7% load factor and a record for any month of 215,000 passengers. It is also the first time they have reached 2 million passengers for the trailing 12 months. Traffic report October 2011 2010 Change RPMs (millions) 80.2 55.7...

Myrtle Beach is just spring and fall. (I think until the end of November and then starting up again in February or March?). There might also be an issue with airplanes to do southern flights at Christmas, as all available planes generally get put on shuttling people between Halifax and Toronto...

The Q400's maximum range is around 1500 miles but it requires 4600' of runway to take off fully loaded. The runway at the Island is only 4000' which limits them to around 500 miles. They do Halifax non-stop at Christmas (I guess because it is colder and you can take off with more weight when...

So much for their being no more sales. Flights are currently 50% until November 4th and you can buy tickets for travel through March. If you have been holding off finalizing your Christmas travel, now could be the time.

I think they are looking to relocate the old historic terminal to somewhere offsite.