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Air Canada to start flying out of island airport
The island airport’s sole commercial tenant is about to get some steep competition. Air Canada will start flying out of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport starting May 1. The national carrier is set to...
View Article$50 million tunnel to island airport to save four minutes: report
A proposed $50-million pedestrian tunnel linking Toronto’s waterfront to the island airport will save air passengers about four minutes waiting time before their flights, compared with using the...
View ArticleConstruction on Island Airport pedestrian tunnel to begin in 2012
TORONTO, Ont. – Toronto city council has signed off on plans to build a pedestrian tunnel to the Toronto Island Airport. Construction on the $60-million project is to begin in 2012 and is expected to...
View ArticleOttawa gives green light to city’s island airport tunnel
Ottawa has broken ground on a pedestrian tunnel to the city’s Billy Bishop island airport. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was at the airport on Friday morning to announce the federal government had...
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Construction begins on tunnel to Billy Bishop Airport
TORONTO, Ont. – Construction of the $82.5-million pedestrian tunnel linking Billy Bishop City Island Airport to the mainland has begun. Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined Finance Minister Jim...
View ArticleCity council votes to study Porter Airlines expansion bid
TORONTO – City council voted to approve a feasibility study into Porter Airlines’ bid to extend the island airport runway for jets to fly in and out of the airport. City councillors voted 29-15 in...
View ArticlePorter wants to extend runway farther in expansion bid
Porter Airlines wants to extend its main runway farther into Lake Ontario to reduce noise concerns as it tries to bring jets to Toronto’s island airport. Porter said in a letter to city officials...
View ArticlePorter Airlines CEO debates future with No Jets T.O.
Robert Deluce, president and CEO of Porter Airlines, and No Jets T.O. chair Anshul Kapoor debate Porter’s plans to expand the Billy Bishop island airport.
View ArticleIsland airport expansion debated in Scarborough
Scarborough residents were able to have their say on the possible expansion of Billy Bishop Airport.
View ArticleStaff report on island airport jets a ‘roadmap for expansion,’ critics say
Critics are calling a staff report about expanding Toronto’s island airport a disappointment and one that paves the way for allowing jets on the waterfront. The document, released on Thursday, says...
View ArticleIsland Airport expansion will restrict boats, ferry routes: TAO says
One group’s report says the expansion could take the wind out of the sails of local boaters.
View ArticleSpeaker expresses herself in song at island airport expansion meeting
People for and against expansion of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport packed council chambers during the executive committee meeting on Tuesday. One speaker named Beverly Dwyan sang her...
View ArticleExecutive Committee votes to move ahead with Billy Bishop expansion talks
The city’s executive committee has voted 11-1 to move ahead with negotiations on the proposed Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport expansion. The executive committee spent the day debating a staff report...
View ArticleCity council debates island airport expansion
The mayor was a no show at the start of the debate on expanding the Billy Bishop airport.
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Old Billy Bishop airport terminal to be turned into restaurant
Celebrity chefs and decorators are teaming up with the Toronto Port Authority to make over a historic terminal building at Billy Bishop airport. The old Terminal A, built in 1939, will be converted...
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