Woodbridge_Heights
Senior Member
How ironic. "Let's expand Oshawa's airport", "don't expand the island airport!"
wrt to Hamilton: It also suffers from a bit of a flooded secondary airport market. Kitchener Waterloo airport, London airport, Sarnia airport, Windsor, Buffalo Niagara airport (US), Cleveland (US), and even Rochester are all within (or close to) a 250 km radius around Munro and have scheduled service, making it difficult to attract passengers. Consolidating Kitchener Waterloo, and London with Munro alone would yield an airport with approx 218 000 aircraft movements and 953 000 passengers. However I wonder if any two of those communities would be willing to accept a closure of significant reduction of service at their airport for the benefit of consolidating somewhere else: Hamilton would have the proximity to Toronto/GTA and the largest population base but it's proximity to the US border causes it to suffer some bleeding of passengers into the US (read Buffalo) airports, Kitchener Waterloo can claim the tech sector there needs access to the airport and they have the greatest number of aircraft movements as justification, although it has the fewest passengers, London has the most passenger movements and is far enough away from Toronto that it could justify having it's own airport. Each could probably make an equal claim to be the best site of the consolidated airport. Also, I wonder, if consolidated, would our ground transportation network be able to handle all the new travel activity between the three centres.
Re. Oshawa. I don't see how you would be able to expand the airport at Oshawa. It's main runway 12/30 is only 1200 m long, Pearson's shortest runway is 2700 m. Any extension of Oshawa's runway to that length would plow through the houses nearby, even at 2000 m the runway would encroach on the creek/stream in the vicinity
wrt to Hamilton: It also suffers from a bit of a flooded secondary airport market. Kitchener Waterloo airport, London airport, Sarnia airport, Windsor, Buffalo Niagara airport (US), Cleveland (US), and even Rochester are all within (or close to) a 250 km radius around Munro and have scheduled service, making it difficult to attract passengers. Consolidating Kitchener Waterloo, and London with Munro alone would yield an airport with approx 218 000 aircraft movements and 953 000 passengers. However I wonder if any two of those communities would be willing to accept a closure of significant reduction of service at their airport for the benefit of consolidating somewhere else: Hamilton would have the proximity to Toronto/GTA and the largest population base but it's proximity to the US border causes it to suffer some bleeding of passengers into the US (read Buffalo) airports, Kitchener Waterloo can claim the tech sector there needs access to the airport and they have the greatest number of aircraft movements as justification, although it has the fewest passengers, London has the most passenger movements and is far enough away from Toronto that it could justify having it's own airport. Each could probably make an equal claim to be the best site of the consolidated airport. Also, I wonder, if consolidated, would our ground transportation network be able to handle all the new travel activity between the three centres.
Re. Oshawa. I don't see how you would be able to expand the airport at Oshawa. It's main runway 12/30 is only 1200 m long, Pearson's shortest runway is 2700 m. Any extension of Oshawa's runway to that length would plow through the houses nearby, even at 2000 m the runway would encroach on the creek/stream in the vicinity
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