To be honest, those pictures are beautiful. I personally believe the current Winnipeg airport is one of the ugliest, if not the ugliest mainline national airport. Just check out the Wiki link below and look at the pics of the ceiling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_airport

I look forward to traveling to QC, and I will go once I get my french brushed up. However, I am surprised by the lack of national flights from QC...basically I didnt find anything other than to Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto

hahaha man I hope they fix this fast!! At least it will be open sooner rather than later.

I love the way you drive around...very smart, very cool, very fun. I think Ottawa's airport looks awesome. I flew from there back to Winnipeg a couple months ago.

Travel a lot eh?

Yeah, just to add to that point, it seems like it will be demolished. Apparently the age factor is the biggest thing, as my friend's dad works in and out there a lot. He said the foundation has shifted so much you would think it was in an Earthquake.

I'm not going to miss it however, if it does end up being demolished :P

I absolutely love the new terminal though.

That's just shoddy maintenance. They could have that fixed in a day or two if the will was there. Unfortunately, they've been letting the place slide since work began on the new terminal.

Thunder Bay has service to Quebec City. Moncton, too. No idea why. Outside of tourism to QC I can't figure out how either flight is economical. Still nothing to Calgary even though a tonne of people from this region live there.

I feel it is my duty to make my fellow canadians realize that Quebec city cannot be summed up by the Château Frontenac and the Provincial Government. It is true that the public sector and tourism are important for the city, but much less so than it used to be.

The economic structure of the city has changed and many sectors, mostly concentrated in high technology, are very strong. The city boasts the highest concentration of research and technology transfer centers in the province, and its high tech park is recognized for its researchers’ expertise in advanced sectors. It mostly stems from the presence of many universities, the biggest of which is Laval University with its 40 000 students. Hence, there is strong growth in optics, photonics, electronics, software, computer services, geomatics, video games, defense, biotechnologies, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, functional foods, agri-food processing, plastics, composite materials, secondary wood processing... The insurance and engineering sectors are also very important, as is the burgeoning schale gas industry. Quebec also is the door to the Beauce region, with its plethora of small and medium size companies.

I can also mention the great attractiveness of Quebec's convention center. It welcomes some 200,000 visitors each year and has been named Best Convention Centre in the World from the International Association of Congress Centres.

Common people! :shrug: I know we are not Calgary but things are moving here as well!!! The city might be old by Canadian standards but it is not a stagnating tourism town. There is a 300M$ eco-neighbourhood under construction, 2 others are in the planning stages and a new stadium will be constructed.

Sorry, just had to get that out of my system! I'm cool now :notacrook:

Sur ce, vous m'excuserez mais je vais aller savourer un délicieux filet mignon cuit sur le barbecue!

Count me as a fan of Winnipeg's old terminal. It may be showing its age, but it has very solid architectural bones.

I try to get around, both for business and for vacation.

It may be vintage, but it's beyond inadequate for city of Winnipeg's size and has to go. Our passenger count has been increasing for years, and that airport is just too cramped to handle the millions of people that pass through there annualy.

I have never noticed any direct flights to these places out of TB. Are these non-stop services and which airlines provide these flights?

According to Wikipedia, which is maintained by air geeks (who are almost as pedantic as bus geeks), Air Canada Jazz has service between Thunder Bay and Quebec City and Thunder Bay and Moncton. It doesn't say if it is direct or not but I assume it would. All of the flights listed on there that I know are direct.

I just checked AC's website, and according to it, there are no direct flights between TB and QC or Moncton; only to Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg. There would then have to be a stop over in either TO or Ottawa before heading onto Moncton or QC from TB.

I see now, they were added by an IP address in April. Maybe they were running then? The same person added Ottawa to Saint John airport.

Maybe it was seasonal or something?

they chased after the western cdn aviation museum to take it over they can't aford to they went after red rive to move avaition related stuff into it they don't got the will to chase for funding for that as they are focusing on the royal bank renos atm and i've herd its supost to get blown up for a movie but i duno though but basicaly it coming down sadly

the art is being saved as far as i know though

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the old old terminal is still standing u know as the western canada aviation musuem

my friend took a pic of that when he was there last month - it looks cool - so retro its hip again

It looks pretty 70's, but the airport itself works pretty well.

I mean, at least its small so catching flights is not a hassle, but it certainly feels cramped like RTD was saying.

It is too small for Winnipeg though, and I've never been a big fan of the terminal myself...the worst is the international area.

at least they don't have many int'l flights - iceland and where else?

i guess the states is considered international?

the states part is so cramped its not funny.............

the internatonal arivals is through the basement witch is the escaladers seen in my shot of the big peac of art

ah the arrivals here are all on the bottom level

Yes, the US is considered international, just like at every other non-US airport. We'll be getting more international fights after the new terminal opens up.