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This is a conflicting issue for me. On one hand i totally get where your coming from. I’d love to see a recladded modernized terminal building. The 1960s window wall looks very aged. YUL would better fit into the world of modern airports . On the other hand I find airports around the world completely ignore their historical architecture. They can’t wait to destroy and rebuild with something newer. We’re one of the few airports still with the original terminal building (or close to it, the 2nd I suppose - est 1960) and it’s original interior form is still there under layers of modernization masking as a modern 21st century terminal. Every major airport looks like it was built in the past 10-15 years it seems. The irony is we get on equally new and modern planes that take us to cities so we can visit ancient architecture and admire it. The planes we fly on too only last a couple of decades. When a model is finished they get scrapped. If we’re lucky some enthusiast aviation group may buy one model and preserve it somewhere. The 747 era is over, how many will last over the next 20-30 years so we can admire it like an old church, castle, plantation mansion or whatever? The airline/airport world never seems to care. They act like we hate history when we seem to love it.. at least elsewhere. so.. yeah I like new modern airports like everyone. I’m just glad we’re keeping at least one element as it was originally designed.. the front facade. Its a rarity these days and people one day might just go to get a selfie in front of it because it has historical value. At least one can hope after all its part of Montreal’s history and heritage.

I feel the same way. If there’s any place a city should spend extra money it’s a bit of architectural flair at their airport. Look at India and China how they’ve gone out of the way to build impressive terminals lately. Albeit its easy for China who can allocate funds from the government but we should always put a bit of effort to do the same. It’s the first impression people will have of us when they arrive at YUL. i haven’t flown in ages but DTW’s latest terminal always impressed me.. very straightforward in design, a cool people mover running its length.. an awesome tunnel with sound and lighting linking the regional terminal.. left me with positive thoughts about the city and made me want to transfer there again. anyway let’s hope this all ends up very close to the renderings but better. More space, more gates and less disgruntled people. It can only help.

That’s sounds about right to me too. I would still like to see the domestic jetty revamped though but domestic is the slowest growth passenger sector. Domestic certainly needs to be brought up to standard and a new jetty extension would do it for sure. For a mixed use extended new 10/28 jetty how would they separate international from domestic other than a straightforward wall In between them. They’d have to have two isolated accesses to them. The intern’l would have a dedicated link to the current international jetty so travellers eventually go customs and immigration. The domestic has to lead to domestic arrivals & baggage return, so if it isn’t just a bus then a tunnel or overhead bridge (or people mover/PTV) would need separate paths. (I vote for people mover) All that might end up using a gate space or two in the new jetty. If a bus is used then I agree with others that all this might be temporary until a full terminal as originally planned is built in the 2030s. ooh this is all so exciting, I’m giddy 😜 🤣

I agree. If what I read earlier about the new jetty being for international flights only is true then for sure they won’t bulldoze the aeroquay. Anyways we’ll see as time goes on, it all happening quite fast so it’ll be apparent quickly. I’m anxious to see where it leads. Perhaps in time a good chunk of old 10/28 may end up being a jetty. At that point dismantling the aeroquay will make sense.

Well it could be but it wouldn’t make sense to try and expand gate availability by taking gates away and just replacing them. I would think they’d keep the aeroquay to make a full expansion. Otherwise all they’d be doing is just upgrading the infrastructure without any substantial expansion of gates. otherwise they would then have removed the aeroquay from the rendrings since gate availability is the focus of the expansion airside, de-icing etc aren’t. Just my thoughts.

According to the renderings the aeroquay will stay. The new jetty will be built on the western end of ex-runway 10/28. Also, on some site or video, I don’t recall which, I also read the new jetty will be used for international flights only. I only saw that once in multiple articles i read so I don’t know if it’s accurate or not

Makes sense. I wonder how many additional gates are planned. The one image of the satellite seems to be further west..as if they will rebuild the aeroquay, just further out. Also what you said also appears in the image.. hopefully leading to a rebuild domestic wing. Fingers crossed.. Just for fun though, I still wish they’d build an ice rink into the plans somehow,. Seems fitting for anyone arriving here for the first time to be greeted in the most Quebecois/Canuckian way!

Looks incredible. I’m curious about the jetty extension and satellite. Also the proposed TGF connection and how it might be integrated. Good to see a fuller protected REM access also. Nice they’re preserving the original terminal building architecture. It will be impressive!

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90 years? I remember Northeast Airlines before Delta ever landed a jet here.. when was that, back in the 70’s I think.. Yellowbirds..

Well on the plus side they’ve ordered 787-10s and A321XLR’s so that will help. Once China opens up again for us some of these planes will go back to Shanghai and Beijing so it’ll be constrained for a while. There might be a bit of route shifting in the process I imagine.

Last I read was Air China would be back here in 2025. Not sure if that still stands.

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Was Stockholm previously announced? Nice to see routes like that in our network now.