Propair bets on small-city demand with 18-seat flights from North Bay to Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re unlocking Billy Bishop Airport\u2019s full potential by expanding the airport so we can bring cheaper flight options, more routes, and more convenience to the millions of people from across Ontario who use this airport every year,\u201d said Premier Doug Ford. \u201cWith an upgraded airport on the waterfront, Toronto and Ontario will be able to compete with world-class cities across the globe, supporting tourism and business travel across Ontario and creating thousands of new jobs for Ontario workers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahead of the start of construction on the airport\u2019s expansion, and following consultation with impacted First Nations, the province also intends to declare Billy Bishop Airport a Special Economic Zone. This would speed up the expansion of the airport by streamlining approvals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Ontario\u2019s population expected to grow to more than 20.5 million by 2051, including significant growth across the Greater Toronto Area, it\u2019s critical that we build the infrastructure needed to support that growth and keep people and goods moving,\u201d said Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation. \u201cBilly Bishop Airport is an important and underused part of Ontario\u2019s transportation network, and additional capacity will help meet future demand, strengthen connectivity and support jobs across Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n
Billy Bishop Airport\u00a0serves\u00a0approximately two million passengers each year and connects Toronto to more than 20 cities across Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Port Authority has proposed a modernization plan for Billy Bishop Airport that includes updates to the tripartite agreement to allow for modern jet aircraft, changes to the runway to accommodate modern aircraft, enhancements to the terminal building and improved access to Toronto\u2019s waterfront. Once fully expanded, the Toronto Port Authority estimates the airport\u2019s activities will contribute up to $8.5 billion to Canada\u2019s economy every year by 2050 and support up to 23,000 jobs in Ontario\u2019s construction sector alone.<\/p>\n
Billy Bishop Airport is the province\u2019s third-busiest airport and an important hub for regional travel and essential services such as Ornge, which provides more than 4,700 provincewide air ambulance and medical transport flights from the airport annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Propair operates direct flights from North Bay Jack Garland Airport to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. The service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-556471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}