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Canadian Airport Thread
A closer look at airport expansion across Canada
Canwest News Service Published: Friday, July 04, 2008 More than $7 billion worth up upgrades are planned at major airports across Canada so they can handle millions of extra passengers. Separate factboxes of spending plans and capacity targets for 13 cities: Victoria International Airport 2015 passengers: 1,710,825 Expansion: $133 million through 2025 to extend main runway, aprons and taxiways, new loading bridges, terminal and customs facility expansion, increased parking and improving access to airport from highway. Airport Improvement Fee: $10 for departing passengers Neat feature: Illarion Gallant's "Bouquet of Memories" art installation outside departures terminal Major complaint: Limited direct flights to/from Victoria major destinations Vancouver International Airport 2015 passengers: 20,315,978 Expansion: $1.5-billion program includes international terminal expansion and upgrades, new building linking domestic and international terminals and new Canada Line rapid transit service Airport Improvement Fee: $5 for passengers travelling within B.C. and Yukon, $15 for all other destinations Neat features: Bill Reid's iconic sculpture - The Spirit of Haida Gwai, The Jade Canoe - and a 114,000-litre saltwater aquarium featuring local marine life Major complaint: Long customs lineups Calgary International Airport 2015 passengers: 15,475,759 Expansion: $3 billion by 2018 - includes international transborder concourse, which will add 20 new gates and associated aircraft apron; expansions to the transborder baggage facility and Canadian Inspection Services area; more surface parking and 2,000-stall addition to car parkade; fourth runway, 4,267 metres Airport Improvement Fee: $20 for all departing non-connecting passengers Neat features: White Hat volunteers. Space Port Educational Facility. 30-minute free parking Major complaint: Congestion at U.S. transborder concourse Edmonton International Airport 2015 passengers: 7,981,076 Expansion: $1.1 billion by 2012 for new passenger concourse, 13 new airplane gates for total of 30, more parking Airport Improvement Fee: $15 for departing passengers Neat feature: Jack Shadbolt's historic Bush Pilot in Northern Sky mural Major complaint: $48 taxi fare to downtown Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport 2015 Passengers: 1,443,446 Expansion: $70 million between 2009 and 2018 for runway reconstruction, terminal renovations and expansion Airport Improvement Fee: $10 for departing passengers Neat Feature: Split-level terminal design to improve efficiency and passenger flow Major Complaint: Shortage of taxis Regina International Airport 2015 passengers: 1,255,957 Expansion: $100 million over the next 20 years Airport Improvement Fee: $15 for departing passengers (increased from $10 in April 2007) Neat feature: Circular skylight-sundial in arrivals lobby. Major complaints: Shortage of taxis at peak periods, inability to get more international flights due to Canada Border Services Agency staffing policies James Richardson International Airport (Winnipeg) 2015 passengers: 3,778,035 Expansion: $585 million, 51,000-square-metre terminal under construction. To open in 2010 with boarding/departure gates increasing from nine to 15 Airport Improvement Fee: Increased from $15 to $20 for departing passengers on Jan. 1, 2008 Neat Feature: $6.3-million Greyhound bus terminal, $100 million Canada Post mail sorting plant and a proposed $20-million, seven-storey hotel Major complaint: Old terminal won't be preservedJames Richardson International Airport (formerly Winnipeg International Airport) Windsor Airport 2007 passengers: 245,000 Projected growth: 400,000 passengers by 2018 Expansion: $600,000 to add pre-boarding area including cafe, business lounge, children's play area. Airport Improvement Fee: None Neat feature: Mural of Windsor's Willistead Manor, designed by architect Albert Kahn for Henry Chandler Walker Major complaint: Not enough direct-flight options Toronto Pearson International Airport 2015 passengers: 41,036,847 Expansion: Airport development program $4.4 billion, 10-year construction plan completed in 2007 - new terminal one, expanded terminal three, new runway and new firehalls Airport Improvement Fee: $20 for departing passengers, $8 for connecting passengers Neat feature: Artwork by Ingo Maurer - giant water tank with small moving cubes Major complaint: Not enough taxis, especially in poor weather Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport 2015 passengers: 4,656,360 Expansion: Phase II by late 2008, budgeted at $111 million, includes addition to parking garage, construction of major addition to new passenger terminal building. Phase III sometime after 2017 Airport Improvement Fee: $15 for departing passengers Neat feature: Three-level water feature that represents the various waterways in Ottawa Major complaint: Lack of large round analogue two-handed clocks Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (Montreal) 2014 passengers: 15,517,382 pax Expansion: $1.5 billion spent since 2000 in relocations of service hangars and reconfiguration of road network, construction of new transborder departures hall to be completed in 2009, new Marriott hotel to open in fall of 2008 Airport Improvement Fee: $20 plus GST for departing passengers Neat feature: Montreal's only passenger airport Major complaint: Noisy night flights Halifax Stanfield International Airport 2015 passengers: 3,702,705 Expansion: Midway through 10-year, $97.5-million capital improvement plan for new terminal facilities, restored runways, parking and passenger amenities. Airport Improvement Fee: $10 for departing passengers Neat Feature: International arrivals lounge features life-size model of Alexander Graham Bell's Silver Dart bi-plane. Major complaint: Lack of parking (airport is constructing 2,300-space parkade) St. John's International Airport 2015 passengers: 1,536,000 Expansion: Five-year, $65-million capital program beginning spring 2009. To include terminal building expansion, new and renovated operations buildings, rehabilitation and resurfacing of secondary runway, and fleet replacement Airport Improvement Fee: $15 for departing passengers Neat feature: Memorial display for service people stationed or passed through airport during WWII Major complaints: Poor road signage for airport turnoff; lack of rental cars in peak seasons Additional Airports Quote:
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I lol'd at the major complaint for Ottawa. :haha:
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Those growth forecasts are likely on the optimistic side given the rise in fuel prices.
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42 mill for Pearson by 2015 thats awesome
And YVR needs to use some of that budget to improve the domestic section of the airport. B concourse looks awful. |
Haha, Thunder Bay International has large round analogue two handed clocks, so no problems on that front!
We get 600,000 passengers per year but can't handle large planes so we need tonnes of flights to places to handle demand. We also lack direct flights to places like Calgary and Vancouver which people sometimes complain about. We now have direct flights to Ottawa and Montreal via Jazz but they're bitching about fuel prices and will probably cut them not even three months after they started. :rolleyes: |
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And with the international check-in concourse, they need to push back the check-in booths at least 10-metres....there's hardly any space to move through the terminal when there are long lineups for check-in. It would also be great if we could somehow expand the arrivals space in both the domestic and especially international terminals.....and the international customs hall needs more booths. |
YVR has made it quite clear that international flights (mainly asia) and the international terminal are the first priority. It's pretty shameful. domestic passengers can go to hell for all they care
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Heres a map of Calgary International after the expansion is done:
http://www.calgaryairport.com/fts/getFile.cfm?FID=10802 Pretty much everything on the east side is new (the darker colored runways and apron), the new parallel runway will be the longest runway in Canada once its ready. Construction is supposed to be starting relatively soon, the initial road closures are supposed to start next year according to some reports (one of the main access roads to the airport runs where the runway will go, so it must be removed) |
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And that is the only way in hell that Calgary will ever reach a projected 30,000,000 passengers by 2030...:haha: :haha: :haha: |
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I highly doubt he's serious.
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When I look at the passenger growth stats for all the airports it seems obvious that there are potentially different strategic growth plans for all airports in Canada...it would interesting to find out exactly how some of the airports with huge growth targets plan to achieve their passenger growth targets. |
JAR (winnipeg)
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Citi financial just recently (world's largest bank) took over 50% of Hamilton Airport and the other 50% is YVR. This September Hamilton Airport staffs will make a presentation to request something like $40 million to expand the Airport.
Currently there's $3 million being spent to double the size of the departure lounge. Last year YHM completed doubling the size of the International terminal. |
A bit old:
http://www.movekelownaforward.com/co.../YLWFuture.jpg From the Kelowna Daily Courier: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 $150 million needed for Kelowna airport plans By J.P. SQUIRE Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 12:01 AM Passenger volumes at Kelowna International Airport are expected to double and perhaps even triple to three million a year in the next 20 years. But getting to that level will require an investment of $150 million to nearly double the size of the terminal, build a four-level parkade with 2,400 stalls, two runway extensions to 10,000 feet and a new taxiway the entire length of the runway. A master plan approved by city council Monday also calls for a future overpass over the CN Rail tracks and a so-called diamond or full interchange at Highway 97. The future could also see the integration of the rail line with airport operations. Other cities are building rail connections to their airports for light rail transit systems, noted Mayor Sharon Shepherd, while Kelowna already has a rail line between the highway and terminal. The master plan called for the current 7,300-foot runway to be extended to 9,000 feet by 2008 and to 10,000 feet by 2025. A single runway would be enough to accommodate the 133,000 aircraft movements expected in 2025. A runway extension to the south would require the acquisition of an addition 15 hectares of land: seven in the regional district and eight in the city. The runway extension will allow fully loaded aircraft with wingspans up to 65 metres, including the Airbus 330 and Boeing 787. The Airbus has a range of 4,850 nautical miles and the Boeing 787 a range of 7,000 nautical miles to reach destinations such as Europe and Australia. The peak number of passengers in the terminal building will increase from the current 380-480 passengers in one hour to 680 by 2015 and to 900 by 2025, according to the report. So the terminal will nearly double to 19,000 square metres by expanding to the southwest, where the long-term parking lot is now located. The impact of the airport was 1,835 jobs and $310 million in economic output in 2005, which is expected to increase to 3,104 jobs and more than $525 million in economic activity by 2015. At Monday’s meeting, councillors approved the latest expansion that will provide a parking space for another large aircraft. A $2.4-million contract to Ansell Construction will also add 381 new parking stalls to the long-term parking lot and pave the 300 gravel stalls built in 2005. That will result in a total of 2,202 public parking stalls at the airport. Roger Sellick told council he used to think he was the general manager of an airport, but with all the changes in recent years, he joked he now thinks of himself as “the manager of a construction site where airplanes land.” © Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Copyright KelownaDailyCourier.ca this is incredible.....and wow, a rail line to the airport? O_O'''' way to go Kelowna! |
Thunder Bay has a rail line near the airport from both CN and CP, and CN's main train yard is just west of the airport. If the CN line running through the city ever gets decommissioned, we'd just have to build a rail overpass to the airport to have a rail transit connection to it from both downtowns.
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YXX - Abbotsford - anyone have any details of their expansion plans? I hav eseen pictures of a new treminal on the walls of the airport but I do not have any details. I use that airport at least once a month and it has to be the nicest for short turnaround times...love being able to get to the airport 30 minutes before the flight knowing you will not have any hassles checking in or at the gate. YWG - nice pictures of the new JAR terminal but I am not sure about those bubble sky lights...looks very retro 60's to me... YEG - Edmonton - missing details of a new airport hotel going up which is independent of the 1.1 billion airport expansion |
Interesting article from the Vancouver Sun related to this:
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winnipeg needs it our curent terminal is max out for compacity but the building still has life left in it shame they couldn't find a new use for it
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YVR is probably the best airport in the country. Having travelled to T dot many times, I must say I found Pearson Int'l to be disappointing. I expected a lot more from the largest airport in Canada. Calgary's is coming along nicely as well. Those projections seem to be on the high side though :haha:
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I suspect the numbers for Calgary are not anticipated traffic, but the amount of traffic it could handle with the additional runway.
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Exactly...finally jeremy brings some sense to the Calgary conspiracy believers. All the other airports listed seem to show projected passenger numbers. The Calgary data for some reason shows capacity numbers. Two very different things. It only makes sense to build infrastruture in excess of demand, you would think.
It does not take a math whiz to figure out that with 13M passengers with the current setup that a new runway that does not conflict with the current one(s) would effectively double capacity. Of course, you would likely need a few more gates as well. Note I said capacity, not necessarily passenger numbers. |
^ that's probably it. I believe the new Beijing airport has a capacity of 100 million passengers annually, but it likely won't meet that ever.
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Yet they're planning another one already. :sly:
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Something like what Beijing built here in Canada would probably cost at least $20-billion. |
Probably has much to do with labour costs though.
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And with their newest expansion YVR once again totally outclasses the rest of Canada's airports. Kudos
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You are looking at pictures of a looming scandal. The private airport authorities across Canada are all loading themselves down with debt and working on the assumption they would be able to recoup the expense through user fees based on traffic estimates that were unreasonable before oil prices began to spiral out of control.
When the airport authorities begin to go bankrupt Ottawa will be forced to bail them out. And for all the money that is being spent little of it is going to improved aviation infrastrucutre, such as improved runway lighting or runway barriers it is all going to making airports look like disneyland. |
I highly doubt it.
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YVR is just fantastic. |
^uh...ever flown domestically out of the sw/s wing?
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Some fact: Upon completion it will be the fourth largest air facility in land area (physical size). Only three other air facilities are/were larger than Dubai World Central: 1. King Fahd International Airport (in Damman, Saudi Arabia, which is larger than the country of Bahrain) (780 square kilometers) 2. In Montreal, Canada, the Montréal-Mirabel International Airport (392 square kilometers) 3. Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport (225 square kilometers). If completed as planned, the airport will have an annual cargo capacity of 12 million tons, more than three times that of Memphis International Airport, today's largest cargo hub, and a passenger capacity of more than 120 million - almost 30% more than Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, currently the world's busiest passenger airport. |
^Yes, yes...Dubai's growth plan is to build the largest _____ (Fill in the blank). Business case is simple...build the largest for bragging rights.
I doubt it'll ever top the busiest (right now, Atlanta at 89m, O'Hare at 76m, and LHR at 68m). Beijing is over 50m now (9th busiest), and with the growth in China, I wouldn't be surprised if it grew quicker than most...especially considering the gas prices, routes being scaled back, etc. Dubai has seen huge growth (had about 35m in 2007), and I can see 50-60m. |
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Here's a few photos of Winnipeg International Airport. James Armstrong Richardson International well under way, along with a new Greyhound bus terminal, and Canada Post facility...
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^sexy
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thats pretty neat to combine the greyhound and the airport
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While I agree that Toronto's current expansion is cold, it does have a minimalistic art gallery type of feel to it. Vancouver is my favorite, I could live in that airport, Toronto's would be a great place for a rave or a night club.
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Pearson is nice but to be honest I'd rather just go to an average airport and not have to pay ticket prices that must support some of the highest landing fees on the planet.
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Having resently been to Vancouver Intl.... I was reminded how beautiful the new expansion really is.
It is very well laid out and the new food court area is very appealing. With that said I have also resently seen the Inchon (Seoul) South Korea Airport and Singapore Intl ... AMAZING!! Both are absolutely incredible. The best airports I have ever seen. |
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As would many but an average airport near Toronto like Hamilton or Buffalo just doesn't have as many destinations to choose from. |
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