Porter Airlines has cancelled routes from Toronto Island Billy Bishop Airport to North Bay and Pittsburgh. Service to North Bay began in October 2015 and will terminate on September 11, 2017. Porter has had two flights a day to Pittsburgh starting in September 2015. This route will also terminate in September of this year. In both ...
NOW on PortsToronto and Politics
NOW Magazine has published an article on the rogue federal public agency, Ports Toronto, and its sale of 30 Bay Street for $96 million. You will find it here. https://nowtoronto.com/news/ports-toronto-sale-waterfront-headquarters/ The article makes clear that Transport Minister Marc Garneau has ignored the local Member of Parliament, Adam Vaughan. Until now Vaughan has been the effective voice of ...
Waterfront For All condemns sale of 30 Bay Street
The controversy over the sale of land at 30 Bay Street for $96 million by Ports Toronto continues. This is a link to a letter sent by Ed Hore, Chair of Waterfront For All, to the Honourable Marc Garneau, the Minister of Transport. It clearly expresses the concerns of citizens. The letter is supported by 16 community groups ...
Video on “Ground Runup Enclosure”
This note and link to the PortsToronto video on the Ground Runup Enclosure, comes from Hal Beck, a neighbourhood member of the airport liaizon committee. Hi All, attached is a link to a recent 4 minute video of the Ground Runup Enclosure (GRE) recently constructed at Island Airport, containing some time lapse footage and technical info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAt8kziW9D0&t=47s In ...
An open letter to Andew Scheer
Last Saturday, May 27, 2017 Andrew Scheer was elected leader of the Conservative Party. In March, 2016 he made this statement in the House of Commons. "... A similar example would be the Toronto Island airport. My friend from Spadina-Fort York (Adam Vaughan) cares very passionately about this because he represents a lot of very rich ...
Airports, aircraft and climate change
This is an interesting article on climate change and the airline industry called “How private airports could warm the climate.” Brian Iler, the Chair of CommunityAIR is quoted. http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/05/15/analysis/how-private-airports-could-warm-climate