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Originally Posted by thenoflyzone
I don't think ADM really expects YHU to drop "Montreal" from it's title. That part is clearly going to remain. But I think YHU needs to add "St. Hubert" in its new title. It's as if YTZ was simply called Toronto Airport, without "Billy Bishop".
Each London airport has a specific name in it's title. (Heathrow, Stansted, Luton, Gatwick, City etc.)
That's not the case between YUL and YHU now. YUL is known as "Montreal-Trudeau International Airport", so they have the "Trudeau" bit. I think If YHU had kept "St. Hubert" in it's new rebrand - something along the lines of Montreal-St. Hubert Metropolitan Airport - ADM would have left them alone. But they haven't. Now, is "metropolitan" enough of a difference between YUL and YHU? I don't know. I think ADM might have a point here.
They are playing this the correct way, saying that passengers will not be able to differentiate between the two. And knowing how dumb passengers usually are, they are right.
Remember that British couple that bought tickets to Sydney, Nova Scotia, thinking they bought tickets to Sydney Australia instead?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/oops-british-couple-flies-to-canada-by-mistake-1.353972
That was in 2002. Guess what, it happened 4 other times as well. In 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2017. And it's not just passengers, but travel agents as well. Most of these guys bought their tickets via travel agents.
https://viewfromthewing.com/passengers-wind-cold-sydney-canada-instead-sydney-australia/
Let's see how this plays out.
Edit: It is worth mentioning, that technically, only YUL is in the city of Montreal proper. Although the city of Dorval (where the terminal building is) isn't a part of the city of Montreal, half the airport grounds (most of runway 06L/24R) resides in the borough of Saint Laurent, which is a part of Montreal. YHU isn't in Montreal at all. So there is that as well. |
Before YTZ was Billy Bishop, wasn't it "Toronto-City Airport"? In fact, I think it's legal name is still Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
Now, this airport has been around a long time, and can't really "steal" traffic from YYZ, so I don't think there was ever an issue there.
I don't really see the problem with Montreal Metropolitan Airport. Albeit does make the airport sound like a major airport with the word "metropolitan" in it - but that's very French.
If anyone should be suing them, shouldn't it be the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (aka The Met !)
Imagine you are a British couple and book tickets to The Met and accidentally end up at St Hubert airport instead of the fine art museum in NYC!
It will be interesting to see this play out. I do agree though, that St Hubert should be in their name... or even "Montreal - Longueuil". Perhaps "Montreal - South Shore", but they would have to have a French and English version of their name.
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