Atlantic Canada airport thread

[Ozabald]

Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

Ha! Easy to say for someone from Moncton, no one is mistaking your city for another one in the same general region all the time.

Sometimes, I feel like maritimers don't really understand how little the rest of Canada knows about the maritimes, or how little they care. Very few people west of NB even know that NFLD is not part of the maritimes, but part of Atlantic Canada. And really, you can't blame them.


And no one is ever confusing Sydney, Nova Scotia and Sydney Australia:



But, people from the rest of Canada outside of Atlantic Canada confuse St. John and St. John's all the time, and most of them couldn't care less that we don't want them to abbreviate Saint John.





Sydney does not know our woes (especially NB, SJers), like not even close! It — having to constantly correct people about the name. 99% of the time the mistake is someone saying St. John's, not Saint John... It's almost never the other way around. The only time Saint John "wins" is with the airport code. Saint John got YSJ, while St. John's got stuck with YTT.


The whole SJ/SJ thing is a much bigger challenge for branding and marketing than many in the SJ region are willing to admit.

If The Saint John Region was ever to amalgamate, it would probably be in the best interests of marketing and branding to go with a different name for the region as a whole, while letting the respective communities retain their pre amalgamation names, like was done in Halifax. Bay of Fundy Regional Muncipality does't exactly roll off the tongue, but there's surely a suitable name that could be decided upon for the region as a whole.


In terms of air travel, there is another solution to help deal with the SJ/SJ's confusion, and that would be if Saint John and Fredericton shared a midway airport. Perhaps even, an airport shared between all three major centres would be in the cards for the province one day.

I'm sure St. Johnner's would happily inherit the YSJ airport code from us, and I'd certainly be happy to give it up if it meant cheaper, more frequent flights 45 minutes away instead of 20 minutes.

The new name of a Greater Saint John municipality should be Quispamsis! Let the spelling games begin! Or to really ramp up the spelling challenge, the new name will be Kennebecasis!

YYT comes from when the airport was once known as Torbay airport.