Originally Posted by Francesco_2102

Personally, as someone who lives quite close to YTZ, I’m conflicted. On one hand, it would open up so many new routes from so close to home. For ac, this is a large potential market, considering how many people live downtown, the higher average wealth, and the capacity constraints at YYZ.

On the other hand, I understand the adverse effects on noise pollution, etc for the city. It already gets quite loud on waterfront when q400’s land, so a jet would only make that worse.

If we’re being fair, YTZ is such a convenient airport because it’s so small. If it becomes larger, it’ll lose part of its utility, and considering how quick the UP express gets you from union to pearson, the time saved isn’t really so much.

AC (and YTZ airport authorities) need to consider growth prospects together with the role the airport serves, and public perception, to make it a successful location. And just because the federal government (and the US) has toned down their environmental goals, does not mean we should be disregarding sustainability.