Busiest Airports in Canada

[AlainS]

on se retrouvera avec un aéroport pas mal occupé et pas de lien ferroviaire avec le centre ville et un échangeur en ruine.

 

Les gouvernements fédéral, provincial et municipaux se trainent les pieds, ça n'a pas de bon sens.

 

L'échangeur Dorval était sensé être refait à la fin des années 90 ! Le train, les rails sont à côté, ne manque que quelques centaines de mètres.

 

Manque de volonté politique évident + chicanes de clocher pour le financement + manque d'argent. L'équation est à résoudre pour mettre le doigt sur le VRAI problème.

[dwayne89]

Once there are better transportation links between the airport and downtown, wouldn't the number of passengers go up and if so by how much?

[Habsfan]

Once there are better transportation links between the airport and downtown, wouldn't the number of passengers go up and if so by how much?

 

Hard to say. My guess is that once the transportation links between downtown and Dorval international are improved, the number of passengers will increase, but by how much? i don't know?

[LindbergMTL]

Il n'y aura pas d'effet direct énorme avec le lien ferroviaire, si je me souviens bien.

 

Vous vous souvenez peut etre de l'étude qui montrait que la plupart des gens qui vont a l aéroport ou en reviennent ne vont pas au centre ville, mais a leur résidence.

 

Le lien ferroviaire va servir à désengorger les choses et donner une meilleure réputation a Trudeau et à Montréal pour le monde des affaires.

[yul_love_mtl]

Once there are better transportation links between the airport and downtown, wouldn't the number of passengers go up and if so by how much?

 

It might be a slight increase, but I'm not it'd be that significant. Still, YUL should be connected with downtown, by rail asap.

[jesseps]

It might be a slight increase, but I'm not it'd be that significant. Still, YUL should be connected with downtown, by rail asap.

 

 

WTV we are stuck until 2011 with no direct-connection from the Airport to Downtown, which is a big shame.

 

All major airports I have been to have a train or metro system connected to the airport.

 

Amsterdam

London

San Francisco

 

I bet La Guardia has something and Paris, probably all of the major airports in Asia.

[francely57]

 

WTV we are stuck until 2011 with no direct-connection from the Airport to Downtown, which is a big shame.

 

All major airports I have been to have a train or metro system connected to the airport.

 

Amsterdam

London

San Francisco

 

I bet La Guardia has something and Paris, probably all of the major airports in Asia.

 

New York: JFK has one that goes over highways, La Guardia not sure, and Newark has no real link (except the expensive special bus/train), like Trudeau.

Prague: you can take a regular city bus and get to 2 subway lines within 10-15 minutes

Athens: you can directly take the blue metro line, or the suburban train

[WestAust]

Pearson in Toronto doesnt have one either

 

LAX not sure they have one either

[MTLskyline]

YYC loses title of third busiest airport, expects further traffic decline

 

 

By Gina Teel, Calgary Herald

April 16, 2009

 

CALGARY- Canada’s third busiest airport — whoops, scratch that — fourth busiest airport, expects to see passenger traffic decline by roughly five per cent in 2009, due to the tough economic conditions.

 

The anticipated dip in passenger traffic at the Calgary International Airport, which hit a record 12.5 million passengers in 2008, has nothing to do with the facility being taken down a notch on Canada’s busiest airport ranking list, however.

 

“What I can tell you is that for two months we were Canada’s third busiest airport. Now, apparently, we’re fourth again, but we’re still trying hard,” Garth Atkinson, chief executive of the Calgary Airport Authority told the Herald following the organization’s annual general meeting in Calgary.

 

“Maybe we’ll be third again,” he said.

 

In late February, the Calgary International, also known as YYC, claimed the title of Canada’s third busiest airport, as measured by passenger volume, from Montreal for the first time, after posting record passenger traffic of 12.5 million in 2008.

 

Toronto and Vancouver remained in the top two spots.

 

On Wednesday, Atkinson said the authority had just learned that Montreal has republished its numbers, which boosted its traffic — apparently enough to reclaim the third busiest airport title for 2008.

 

Christiane Beaulieu, vice-president public affairs, Aeroports de Montreal, confirmed the organization has just adjusted its traffic numbers to include non-revenue passengers, something she said all airlines do but Montreal hadn’t been, to arrive at the final figure of 12.8 million passengers for 2008.

 

“Also, for next year, we are about like Calgary. Our projections are minus four, minus 5 (per cent),” she said.

 

Indeed during the annual general meeting, Atkinson noted Calgary’s expected five per cent decline in passenger traffic is likely consistent with what’s going on elsewhere in Canada this year.

 

In Calgary’s case, however, the anticipated decline in passenger traffic comes on the heels of a cumulative 60 per cent increase over six years.

 

“Even in relatively normal times you might expect a bit of a pullback over such a rapid increase in our traffic,” he said.

 

In 2009, planning and design will continue with the authority’s two major expansion projects: the $1.3 billion International Facilities project and the $500-million, 14,000-foot (4,267 m) parallel runway.

 

At the same time, Atkinson said major construction-related decisions are still several years away on both projects, so the current economic downturn won’t have an impact here.

 

For instance, there’s a good two year window until a decision point will be reached on the facilities project, and the authority will assess the economic conditions and interest rates at that time.

 

“Could we defer? Certainly. It’s good to have choices,” Atkinson told reporters.

 

According to the latest economic impact update, YYC has a $6-billion value-added GDP impact, or about 10 per cent of the Calgary economy, and supports 40,000 jobs.

 

In 2008, the airport saw 12.5 million passenger, or 34,000 passengers a day, a two per cent gain over 2007.

 

Air carrier movements rose one per cent to 167,000, or 460 per day.

 

Total 2008 revenues were $246 million, with $87 million from the airport improvement fee — of which 100 per cent is dedicated to the facility’s expansion needs.

 

On the air service side, YYC increased frequencies to 12 cities.

 

Included here is Air Canada’s new service to Chicago and Newark, and WestJet’s new service to Grande Prairie, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta.

 

As well, new, scheduled service was announced by Mexicana to Mexico City, and by Lufthansa to Frankfurt.

 

KLM also announced a new service to Amsterdam, set to commence in May 2009.

 

On the service side, in terms of measuring passengers per capita, the results show Calgarians have a very high propensity to travel.

 

“In fact the highest in Canada and this also reflects our status as a significant Canadian hub airport,” Atkinson said.

 

At the same time, YYC has the lowest operating costs per passenger of all major airport facilities in Canada.

 

New initiatives introduced at YYC this year have been well-received, he said, including free Wi-Fi service throughout the terminal and a free cellphone waiting lot.

 

On the business development side, YYC saw UPS announce a new 150,000 square-foot facility and Bell Helicopter opened a new supply centre — one of four such centres in the world for Bell.

 

Peter Wallace, board chair and chief executive of the Van Horne Institute, said 2008 has been “quite a dramatic year for the economies of Calgary, Canada and the world.”

 

“My conclusion is that (authority) management has performed extremely well in 2008, and continues to position the airport to respond to the ever increasing challenges that it will face in 2009,” he said.

© Copyright © The Calgary Herald

 

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/loses+title+third+busiest+airport+expects+further+traffic+decline/1499974/story.html

[ericairlines]

40.000 emplois liés à calgary airport ....NEVER ...it is impossible it is a small hub...very limited international traffic...too much oil dependent ..