{"id":662657,"date":"2026-05-11T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662657\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:19:14","slug":"pearson-airport-kicks-off-multibillion-dollar-upgrade-in-bid-to-boost-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662657\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson airport kicks off multibillion-dollar upgrade in bid to boost traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/D6WKDD6CWNFETKI4QJMNPFNMV4.jpg?auth=3d444c065c9cefc0e09d6d971239b33744da3ef24cbe1a2bf0caa7fdfd20c518&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">The Air Canada check-in area inside Terminal 1 of Toronto Pearson International Airport. The revitalization plan includes improvements ranging from repaved runways to \u201cmodernized retail\u201d and possible terminal expansions.Arlyn McAdorey\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport is launching a multibillion-dollar upgrade that aims to boost passenger numbers by more than one-third to 65 million a year by the early 2030s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The revitalization plan looks to ramp up traffic and tighten on-time performance with improvements ranging from repaved runways to \u201cmodernized retail\u201d and possible terminal expansions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Kicking off Monday, the initial $3-billion phase centres on an expanded airfield, better lighting systems, more electric vehicle charging and new baggage carousels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-airports-privatize-public-transit-pearson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: How selling off Canada\u2019s airports could build tens of billions of dollars of public transit<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Airport chief executive officer Deborah Flint is framing the renovations as a gateway to greater global trade and passenger satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Pearson, the country\u2019s largest airport with more than 47 million travellers annually, hopes to grow that figure by 35 per cent within about seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The renewal effort comes as the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-airport-ownership-changes-early-stages-transport-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-airport-ownership-changes-early-stages-transport-minister\/\">considers privatizing<\/a> Canada\u2019s federally owned airports, partly due to the massive cost of maintaining them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The Air Canada check-in area inside Terminal 1 of Toronto Pearson International Airport.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-662657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662657","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=662657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}