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Originally Posted by bigguy1231
You have made a good point, but the airports you mention are all secondary airports in the areas mentioned.
My question is do we want a mickey mouse regional airport with flights to places nobody really wants to go to or do we want direct flights to primary destinations. For the most part all HI has ever generated are the secondary flights to nowhere. The only reason Westjet still flies out of Hamilton is that they cannot get enough gate space in Toronto to accomodate all of their flights, otherwise they would be gone as well.
Basically, all we are getting is the crap nobody else wants. I remember years ago flying out of Hamilton to go to Florida. I had to fly in this cramped turboprop to get to Pittsburgh then get a connecting flight to Atlanta then on to Orlando. It was on one of the commuter airlines run by I think US Air or United. After that experience I swore never again and have flown out of Toronto or Buffalo ever since.
My point is, are people willing to fly out of Hamilton's bus terminal like airport or would they rather go first class and fly out of Toronto or Buffalo. I think we all know the answer, thats why Hamilton airport as it is will never be anything more than what it is now.
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So tell me wince when was Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg Halifax London Glasgow Dublin Belfast nowhere. do some research about where you can fly to from YHM before making a silly remark. Also Westjet has this feautre on there website that once a flight gets to a point were there are 10 seats or less left on the flight it shows on the website and I have taken a look before and usually most of the flights are showing a remaing number left which means they are getting really good loads out of here still.
Oh and I also think 545,800 passengers is a pretty solid number thats greater then the population of the city of hamilton.
Anyway if you don't want to support the airport that fine the other 500,000 plus people will.
one last think the terminal is far nicer then any bus station i have been in including the dump to our north east
Anyway if Hamilton airport stayes as it is then i would honestly be happy with that. Its better then the days of 4 US air express flights to Pittsburgh.
Oh and don't for get the cargo that is growing through the use of significantly larger aircraft.
Oh and for flying to Florida just thought it would be predent to point out that area of travel has also taken on an advancement. A non stop flight on a jet liner just imagin that.