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Another peak oil reaction which coincidentally contributed to fewer air movements at Munro as mentioned in an earlier post (conveniently left unmentioned in the CATCH article), is the fact that the cargo carriers using the airport are now flying much bigger airplanes into the airport. Instead of two smaller craft, they are flying in one aircraft with a cargo capacity greater than the other two craft combined. This is a combined gain at the airport as traffic is easier to manipulate and the overal environmental impact on the surrounding lands improve. Oh yeah, and there is more money to be made when the big planes pay their landing fees. Profit at the airport doubled last fiscal year to over $1 mil, another fact that somehow failed to make it into the CATCH article. The anti-aerotropolis folks are trying to brand Munro as another Mirabel. Good luck with that. Unlike Mirabel, both passenger and cargo loads are increasing at Munro, as is its profitability. RTH, I'll take you up on your suggestion to contact CATCH. However, I do so with very low expectations. Ever since the defeat of favourite punching bag DiIanni last year, the group seems desperate to find a new enemy to fight, and it looks like they have settled on aerotropolis, most likely because this is seen as the only potential legacy for the former mayor, and they seem determined to scuttle any positive legacy being associated with his name (not counting the Red Hill Parkway of course.) Hey, I am no fan of DiIanni, but there is such a thing as taking a personal vendetta one step too far... |
Here is a diagram of the terminal at Hamilton International in March 1982. You can see it is very small. The check in counter is 2 half counters and one full two sided counter for a total of 4 check-in places.
This building was use until early 1986 when the new building was opened. The city ran the airport until 1996 when they turned it over to Tradeport. Interesting fact is that the airport only severed 16,000 people about 10 years ago and 22,500 in 1999. This year they should be doing between 700,000 to 750,000 passengers. The 1986 terminal was built to serve 450,000 passengers. http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6...rch1982si3.jpg |
haha it's so tiny, the custom storage has more room than the counter space, 80 m by 20 m. Some houses are bigger than that lol.
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Airport Breaks Ground On Another Expansion
Airport Breaks Ground On Another Expansion
Jan, 15 2008 - 12:30 PM HAMILTON (AM900 CHML) - The President and CEO of Tradeport insists that things are going well at Hamilton's airport. Richard Koroscil has helped to break ground on a three million dollar expansion of the departure lounge. He stresses that the space is badly needed for the comfort of passengers, because of the growth of FlyGlobeSpan. The expansion will double the size of the lounge, resulting in more space for duty free, food and beverage and other services. Koroscil is also putting a positive spin on soaring world oil prices, saying they could actually benefit Hamilton's airport, which gives air carriers a low-cost alternative to flying out of Pearson. He predicts that about 700 thousand passengers will fly out of Hamilton this year, up from 670 thousand. - Ken Mann |
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any renderings??
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spin, baby spin!
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I suppose it will look something like this:yuck: http://www.ironbuilt.com/images/commercial-building.jpg Currently looks something like this(not best shot, lots of objects)[photo courtesey dahammer at photobucket] http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y21...r/DCP_1349.jpg Could definetly use modernization to improve foreign passengers perceptions. the inside does not look that bad but still relatively cheap looking compared to most busy airports. |
pretty bad when one bus can block the entire terminal building...let's hope they keep up the modernization work.
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Departure expansion takes off at airport
Steve Arnold The Hamilton Spectator (Jan 16, 2008) Work has started on a $3-million expansion of the departure lounge at Hamilton airport. Mayor Fred Eisenberger and airport president Richard Koroscil broke ground on the project yesterday. The work will double the size of the departure waiting area, expand the duty-free shop and convenience store and upgrade the children's play area. Best of all, there will soon be a Tim Hortons kiosk available to passengers. Koroscil said the expanded area is needed because passenger volume continues to grow -- hitting 670,000 in 2007 and forecast to reach 700,000 this year. "In 2007 we actually had over 25 per cent growth rate which is very significant, it's probably one of the highest growth rates in the country and that's primarily as a result of our new services from flyglobespan," he said. "This growth is an indication of the positioning we've done in terms of Hamilton International being a low-cost alternative to Pearson." Koroscil added the project -- expected to be finished in June -- will bring investment in John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport to about $140 million since its operation was turned over to TradePort in 1995. While passenger volume at the airport has been growing since the arrival of Air Canada Jazz and U.K.-based flyglobespan, it is still about 30 per cent less than it was in 2003 before WestJet slashed 60 per cent of its service from Hamilton. "We're delighted as a council and as a community that this airport continues to have sustainable growth, measured growth that provides a reasonable return for the operator and a great return for the municipality in terms of tax revenue, jobs and future capacity here at the airport," Eisenberger said. After the ceremony, Koroscil said flyglobespan wants to add capacity to its Hamilton service this year. "One of the things we've been careful not to do is overbuild infrastructure. We're not doing the things that the guys down the road have done at the big airport and get a big debtload which then translates into much higher fees," Koroscil said. "Our objective is to stay very competitive to allow those carriers that want to come to the marketplace to experience those big cost savings and hopefully translate those cost savings into cost savings for the passenger." |
Departure expansion takes off at airport
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1. The growth in passenger traffic cited in the article is a concrete example of how decreased air movements cannot be used to accurately measure airport use, as CATCH tried in their less-than-objective December article on the airport. Contrary to the perception engineered by that article, we now have concrete proof that the airport is both profitable and growing rapidly - 25% passenger growth in one year is huge for any airport. 2. The development that is happening is a quick-fix expansion to the temporary departures area, and is a precursor to a more significant expansion timed to happen in 2010. Since it is a temporary building addition, do not expect anything attractive externally. I doubt external architectual improvements would be considered prior to the work planned for 2010. 3. While the phased expansion of the airport may not have much 'wow' factor, it is this approach that keeps YHM successful. Expansion of faciliies is timed to match expansion in use, and is much more cost effective. Building a brand new, huge empty terminal all at once introduces huge debt loads and would require less competitive (i.e. more expensive) landing fees. Tradeport is cleverly avoiding that pitfall here, and therefore avoiding the risk of YHM becoming a white elephant. Besides, the most important thing to travellers and transporters is that the facility works well - my flight choices certainly aren't based on which airport looks the nicest, it's based on cost and convenience. |
^^ great point, Mark. I never really looked at it that way but it makes perfect sense. Who knows what air travel numbers will be like in 2010 even, especially w/ the increasing price of oil.
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this is the Hammer...they won't be happy until there's 17 of them.:yuck:
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hahaha at least the Spec reported it. I'd be surprised to hear anything about this on CHCH Action News... unless Britney Spears was there or something.
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that's a good point Chris. I think we can still keep our costs down, but improve things so we don't have the Walmart of airports. I recall my uncle flying back for a visit from Alberta and we stepped out of the airport facing the parking lot and big field across the road and he jokingly said "welcome to Hamilton!" with his arms spread wide. pretty funny, but also a good point. |
Guys, you are missing my point. Both the new arrivals and departures areas are temporary structures put in place to accomodate future expansion construction, slated to start in 2010. They are temporary, and will be gone in a couple of years once future phases of the expansion plan kick in. It is the permanent structures where architectual esthetics should be applied, not temporary ones. Besdies, it is only the external elements of the additions that are plain. The interior of the airport is quite nice for an airport of that size.
The 'real' permanent construction is slated to start in 2010. Once the phases of that expansion is completed, we will have a a two-level airport, with departures upstairs and arrivals on the lower level. This is the architecture that actually counts, not a temporary building. As far as the impression left when you leave the airport and stare across at an empty field, I guess that impression won't be corrected until aertropolis is approved :laugh: |
sorry i didnt realize those were only temporary. I remember reading about the two floors in the plan but i guessed they would just add a floor matching the same styles. It makes a lot of sense now that they are temporary buildings. Hope they can do something great with the permanant one.
yeah thats the only reason i support aerotropolis. It makes it look like theres something around our airport and i don't think the businesses locating in the aerotropolis would force the airport to have time restrictions as pearson does. I would take aerotroplis over suburbia there anyday:yuck: |
To help understand this project, I am re-posting what I wrote on November 1. I had talked to Richard Koroscil to get this info so it is fairly accurate. But things do change.
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