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I could think of better things to spend $500,000 on. Is there such a thing as a "right turn light" that allows drivers to turn right before the pedestrians get a green? That would be a lot simpler.

The 427 needs to connect to the 400 near Barrie in order to provide an alternate route to the GTA (particularly for those going to K/W, Mississauga, Hamilton, etc) and relieve traffic from the 400. Congestion on the 400 is not limited to the Barrie area. There is no reason that the 427...

I'm pretty sure that's what the 8% of their expenses assigned to "depreciation" would be for.

Perhaps because they have (or about to have) all of the planes that they have ordered. While they have some work to do filling up seats on existing routes, if they want to continue adding new routes, they will need to get some orders in for new planes. If they order new planes right now, it...

The Porter Prospectus is available to download at www.sedar.com It is an interesting read as it lays out their financial data and load information. Some highlights: Load Factor First Quarter 2009: 41.3% (ASMs 101.3 million, RPMs 41.9 million) Load Factor First Quarter 2010: 47.0% (ASMs 220.8...

Porter has submitted a preliminary prospectus for an IPO. Globe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/porter-airlines-poised-for-ipo/article1537141/ Yahoo: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100416/business/porter_aviation Gazette...

If I have to get to a meeting at 8:30am in Ottawa, I can't get there by train without going the day before. In fact, the first train to Ottawa doesn't get there until 11:44am, which makes it tight to get there for lunch. Similarly, at the end of the at the end of the day, the 5pm train won't...

Does anyone know how quickly Westjet and Air Canada can get in and out of an airport with their jets? I've noticed that Porter does a pretty good job of keeping the Ottawa stop to about a half-hour. I've seen quite a few jets take longer than that (because they have more people to get in and...

I will purchase Tango Plus tickets (or Porter Flexible tickets) only when the price is relatively close to the cheaper fare and I know I am almost certainly going to change the flight time on my return in the afternoon. However, if it is going to cost me $100+ to potentially save a $100...

You get a good number of Aeroplan points for a flight to Argentina. It takes a lot of Toronto-Ottawa trips to get any significant number of points. The other thing is that, these days, a flight to New York doesn't really cost that much to just buy it with money, considering how many points it...

The difference is that there are a number of cities that are just as good as Pittsburgh as a hub. There aren't many places that you can fly to from Pittsburgh that you can't fly to from Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, etc. (speaking about aircraft range, not currently available airline...

Thunder Bay has one big advantage -- it is in range to almost everywhere in Canada and the northwestern US for a Q400 (and likely the C-Series) without being too far out of the way. All of the passengers don't need to come from Toronto. Have the C-series start in Ottawa or Montreal and stop...

The TPA has made an official call for RFPs from airlines wishing to come into the BBTCA. 90 new slots will be available in addition to the existing 112 being used by Porter, for a total of 202. The two airlines which have proposed new service (Air Canada and an unnamed US carrier) want 100...

Ottawa is a good candidate for being a hub (and has already started being so with a lounge and flights to multiple destinations) because increased feeder flights from YTZ also provide for more YTZ-YOW frequency to serve the local Toronto-Ottawa commuter traffic. Their startup of YUL-YHZ service...

I think that the increasing service to Halifax is proving these statements wrong. They are filling planes from Ottawa to Halifax with people from either Toronto (choosing to have an extra stop) or Ottawa (choosing Porter over Air Canada). The stop in Ottawa on the YTZ-YHZ service is usually...

No. They would have to stop along the way. Probably in Thunder Bay, although if there was potential O&D traffic, they could do it through Sudbury, Timmins or the Sault. EDIT: Winnipeg to Ottawa would be a possible route as well. I don't expect that they would get smaller planes due to the...

Are both those numbers "after taxes"? I've priced Porter flights occasionally on one travel website or another and they generally came out to the same after everything was included. EDIT: I just tried Expedia for YTZ-EWR April 13 returning on the 14th, both times on the 6:45am. It was $120...

Now that they are coming close to their slot limit, can they get YTZ upgraded to Level 3, where Porter would gain protection by the historic slots rule? http://www.iata.org/NR/rdonlyres/2C1BAA18-6297-4984-A74E-4A6D1F945A55/0/WSG19Edition.pdf See Section 6.8.1.1 The fact that Air Canada is...

Hearings are scheduled for June 6-8 for Air Canada's court challenge to gain 74 slots at the Island (15 times a day to Ottawa and Montreal and 7 to Newark). Porter has 120 and there are expected to be between 42 and 92 new slots available this year. That wouldn't leave a lot for other airlines...

Is that 2 hours and 18 minutes with a stop in Ottawa? (Would it stop anywhere else?)? So the trip to Ottawa will be under 2 hours from Toronto? I could see that being competitive with air (if the price was similar).