{"id":651624,"date":"2026-05-06T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651624\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:42:12","slug":"yyt-preparing-to-expand-to-accommodate-projected-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651624\/","title":{"rendered":"YYT Preparing to Expand to Accommodate Projected Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yyt-st-johns-international-airport-airline-plane-runway-tarmac.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"YYT Preparing to Expand to Accommodate Projected Growth\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. John&#8217;s International Airport (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s International Airport is preparing for some substantial growth over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>During their annual public meeting yesterday CEO Dennis Hogan revealed that over 1.4-million passengers filed through YYT in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan says based on a \u201crelatively conservative\u201d growth rate of between 2.5 and 3 per cent, forecasts indicate that the airport could exceed 2-million passengers annually in the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yyt-st-johns-international-airport-authority-president-and-ceo-dennis-hogan.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yyt-st-johns-international-airport-authority-president-and-ceo-dennis-hogan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-298382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. John\u2019s International Airport Authority President and CEO Dennis Hogan (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Hogan says planning for that growth includes some significant expansions for the airport.<\/p>\n<p>He says the east side of the terminal was expanded in 2018, and future plans include work on the west side.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan says the original terminal building was built to accommodate 900,000 passengers, which they have \u201clong exceeded.\u201d The east expansion can handle up to 2.3-million, but he says the arrivals area is still designed for 900,000. Hogan states they have been \u201cgetting by,\u201d but for the long-term they need to consider expanding those areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Airport has also unveiled a new logo and branding in partnership with JAC marketing.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; St. John&#8217;s International Airport (VOCM News) St. John\u2019s International Airport is preparing for some substantial growth over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-651624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651624","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=651624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}