YEG Expansion posted by LO 044 in the Edmonton section.

Looking good YEG

13,660,682 (+5.3%) million passengers for Montreal in 2011, a new record!

http://admtl.com/APropos/SalleDePres...tistiques.aspx

Nice airport pics!

I'm flying out of Pearson on Saturday so I was doing some googling about the rebranding. No idea if it'll bring Pearson up to par with other airports but this article is encouraging.

Free Wi-Fi? Check. Valet parking? Check. Welcome to the new Pearson

Tess Kalinowski
Toronto Star, June 7, 2011
http://www.thestar.com/news/transpor...cle/1003816--b

Seems that Terminal One at YYZ is getting EVERYTHING! What about Terminal Three? There's very little to eat/see/do in T3!

Not much word on it yet but plans are in the works to double the size of St. John's International.

I never seem to be in Terminal 3. Is that US bound flights?

This is a link to the .pdf of the Windsor Airport Master Plan that was developed in 2010. It has existing airport layout plans and shows future expansions.

http://www.yqg.ca/img/windsor%20airp...may%202011.pdf

The airport has just handed over it's new large hanger for wide body aircraft maintenance and repair. I'm not sure how far off the next phase of the proposed developments are though.

Generally speaking, T3 is non-Star Alliance airlines, although that isn't entirely true.

Airlines in T3 are flying domestically, internationally, and transborder. The airlines currently operating out of T3 are found here: http://www.torontopearson.com/en/fli...destinations/#

Shot of the new ATC tower rising in YYC:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6...14656083_z.jpg
New Control Tower by BigtimeAa, on Flickr

That big pile of dirt in the background is related to the parallel runway construction.

I am hoping that, with the recent opening of the new terminal in Winnipeg (essentially a replacement terminal) that we will hear of the Phase II or expansion plans soon (they were expected to start talking about it in 2012, while officially chugging out the plan in 2014)

but there seems to be a lawsuit the Airport Authority is currently involved in, so I wonder how delayed these plans will be. These plans did tentatively involve a second terminal or phase II (expansion) of the first terminal, not quite sure which one


Edmonton and Quebec City lookin' quite fine!

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but there seems to be a lawsuit the Airport Authority is currently involved in, so I wonder how delayed these plans will be. These plans did tentatively involve a second terminal or phase II (expansion) of the first terminal, not quite sure which one

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Wonder if this has to do with the collapsed sanitation lines last year.
Hope to get a good look at the terminal when I fly through in a couple of weeks.

The QC expansion looks a lot like Pearson.

T3 at YYZ has all the One World and Skyteam alliance carriers, Westjet and what I call 'everyone else'. T3 was a great hub for Canadian and the One World Carriers when CP was still alive, but really went down hill after that.

It's okay for Westjet, but if they are really going to hit hard into AC's business clients, they need to do some work on that terminal and big time.

If Westjet's proposed regional carrier does take flight, the plan is to have one of the bases in Toronto. In T3, is there accommodation for this type of aircraft and if so, where? I've never seen such a gate there!

Could either use the T3 remote terminal (A gates?), or the infield maybe?
Doesn't seem to be much space to build out a regional operator otherwise, especially one that likely wants preclearance.

It may be just that I never noticed before but that appears to be the tallest tower crane I've seen that isn't anchored to the side of a structure.

Just another example of what recent airport expansions have meant in terms of puting our cities on the world map. With all the options now for connecting flights, people are starting to avoid certain airports if they can and I suspect it's surveys like this that will help them decide where to go instead.

from www.torontosun.com