http://flyeia.com/media/7858/447.wmv

Cool run-through of YEG's expansion. Note the large glass walkway has been changed to a frosted / darker glass I believe, for obvious reasons. :P

Here's a little more info about the airport at St. John's. Because of the high number of fog days these improvements are especially important -

Source: http://www.dailybusinessbuzz.ca/2010...upport-growth/

I don't see much here from Halifax so I am re-posting these photos by ALPS of the Halifax section. I think that Halifax has done a good job (in terms of square footage added versus dollars spent).

It isn't any thing spectacular like in Toronto, but certainly functional and I think that it looks much better than prior to expansion. Halifax been spending a significant amount on terminal and parking expansions each year.

Thanks to alps. (from November 12 2009)

We have some sexy airports in this country.

YEG expansion

I attended a rather interesting lunch event a couple weeks ago on the expansion plans for the Calgary International Airport.

What particularly surprised me was the design images they displayed of the new east concourse, which will be entirely for US/International Traffic (which is growing with the recent addition of new flights to London (Heathrow) by British Airways, Frankfurt by Lufthansa and Amsterdam by KLM. Not to mention the new Tokyo flight operated by Air Canada.

Link the Airport Expansion details

Looking good YEG :tup:

As for the Calgary plans mentioned above it appears that the Airport Authority is moving ahead with this work. Driving by the terminal the other day I could clearly see the elevated departures roadway continuing due east to nowhere while the current road drops down before this new section. There is also a lot of earthmovers on site east of the existing airport ramp starting to scrape and move earth in preparation for this expansion and the parallel runway.

The Vancouver airport looks really nice, going by these pictures. Personally, I LOVE the new T1 at Pearson... it has a very minimalist, modernist feel to it. Vancouver went the opposite route it seems, the airport looks very colourful and messy, but it works well.

All of the Canadian major airport terminals I've seen compare nicely (or soon will in Winnipeg's case) next to many of the US terminals. I like YVR, but my personal favorite is YOW. The materials they picked for that terminal's interior complement each other very nicely.

where is YOW?

Ottawa....

Doesn't YEG have a particularly neat hotel being adorned on or near the terminal? I at least remember renderings that were fairly exciting.

As far as personal preference, I'd have to agree with the consensus on here that Vancouver is the best. I also like YOW. YYC is okay, but those ceramic oversized mobiles that adorn the concourse really bug me. Calgary is such a monster of a business centre, I wished its terminal flexed that muscle more, as opposed to coming off as a comic book.

I'd say that Pearson *is* an average airport, for its age and size. It's nice, but so should any brand new airport be. It certainly isn't excessive. Heathrow's terminal 5 is similar in age and passenger capacity, but cost almost twice as much.

From what I recall reading, more than a third of the landing fees are due to disproportionately high government rents. And I would submit that the remaining portion being high doesn't have much to do with the airport itself, but rather the fact that it's one of the fastest growing hubs in the world, requiring a lot of capital expenditure (that is financed privately, and thus passengers pay the brunt of it). I'm sure that if it had been possible to predict the growth in 1939 that they would have simply charged slightly higher fees the subsequent 70 years, resulting in current fees being much lower.

I thought those were hokey when I first saw them in the 'D' pier, but now that I have a child they are a great time-killer, kids will turn those keys and watch those planes go flying around right until its time to board your flight.

Plus the aircraft on them represent a bunch of very important aviation companies or people from the YYC area. Like Fred MCall and Kenn Borek Air.

The only real downside they have is that they do crowd the boarding areas where they are.

There was a wing-like hotel design that got squashed due to the US owner/operator pulling out due to the who financial crisis/depression thing, but rumour have it coming back...

I was in San Francisco last week and was REALLY impressed by SFO. It is huge (3 terminals), yet very organized, very modern, and fairly easy and quick to get around thanks to their AirTrain between terminals.

^concur, although their baggage system is a joke. My bag, along with a few others, were caught in the secure side of the carousel and we were told that it would have to wait for another arrival to restart. We waited about 20mins.

ridiculous

London is gettinga 15 000 sf exapnsion on its current terminal they are also adding 5 bridges.
Heres what it looks like now. courtesy of egypt69 at ssc
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/u...4/IMG_0568.jpg
and what it will look like courtesy of The Hawk also ssc
http://swoa.freeforums.org/download/...=940&mode=view

reposted from YYC thread

What happened to the plan to consolidate all three Pearson terminals (the new #1, the now-demolished #2, and #3) into one mammoth terminal? Is it still inching forward? I haven't read or heard anything about it in at least five years.