Atlantic Canada airport thread

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Public Transit to Airports needs local, every day volumes to really be worthwhile. Which means servicing the airport employees and the businesses around the airport need to be the driving force for the airport, and if it can also be used as an alternative for PAX, then it's gravy.

YFC is too small, too far in the boonies, and has too little around it for any bus to be worthwhile. Maybe if we became Capital Transit and started offering routes in Oromocto and thus had a link through Lincoln between Oromocto and Freddy, then an airport transit option might be feasible. But that's about it.

I don't know anything about YSJ to say anything.

For YQM, it does feel like it is getting near the critical mass to have Transit servicing the airport. There's a lot of industry around the airport and that area is growing in general, so bus service loops around the airport that happen to serve it will probably be worthwhile.

Touching on Ottawa. A few years ago, on that trip out west, I had a layover in Ottawa that was extended due to that computer bug issue. (A 1-2 hour break turned into a 8 hour wait). I seriously considered using OC Transpo to head into the city that day.

But my own personal example is a bit of an outlier; I know the city (and South Keys area) well from Co-op terms in the city, so I knew where I was and where I might go. Sadly, I couldn't get in contact with my family in the city so I just ended up waiting. I think the Light Rail was still under construction too, making me less eager to leave the airport.

But as a general traveller on a layover, I doubt I would see many being as willing to leave the airport. Just having to deal with security on the way back in, as well as the risks of getting lost/not realizing the connection timings to get back would make me hesitate about leaving a layover airport unless I had a REALLY long break between flights. It certainly isn't a factor that any Maritime airport (even Halifax) really has to be thinking of any time soon.