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Toronto Pearson International Airport
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Neither does Icelandair. It should be the charter and discount airlines. WOW qualifies.
TransitBart
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Time for a letter to Calin Rovinescu. Stairs in Nice, France or Minneapolis, fine. Stairs in Toronto into a not regional jet, not fine. Passengers will be so glad they paid Air Canada’s J class fare.
WillTo
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I've gotten off a Lufthansa 747 in Frankfurt using stairs!
I honestly don't know what they did with the wheelchair passengers.
Question: Which is worst?
I honestly don't know what they did with the wheelchair passengers.
Question: Which is worst?
- Infield terminal?
- Or buses directly to apron position and stairs?
TransitBart
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Buses and stairs.
rbt
Senior Member
The use something similar to the food trucks (with slightly nicer interiors) which can be raised to door level at the front and have a loading ramp/elevator on the back that reaches ground level.
Buses by quite a wide margin when it's raining.
The infield terminal has basic services (bathroom, minimal food service, seating, etc.) and protection from weather.
Streety McCarface
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Woodbridge_Heights
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Depends on a few factors i'd imagine.
- Type of gate demanded. Presumably they are freeing up space at wide body gates for westjets 787 international expansion. So moving a sunwing or even transat who primarily operate narrow body 737's and 320's would not work.
- time of demand. Again if this is being done to give westjet some international gates than the gates will be needed in the afternoon/evenings not the early morning when most of sunwing and transats flights are occurring.
- finally, and without looking up each airlines flight schedule, these airlines likely operate only one or two flights per day. So relocating those airlines would create the least amount of impact to passengers of those airlines.
IRT_BMT_IND
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There are basic services (Relay store and duty free) at the IFT.
Some of the transborder gates on Pier F were also converted to swing gates to relieve the hammerhead.
AFAIK both T1 and T3 were built with infrastructure for remote busing from day one, it was just mothballed until now. When the east holdroom for transborder CRJs was still open, the incoming buses dumped their passengers near the base of Pier F, I recall that there was an escalator up to the customs hall.
Some of the transborder gates on Pier F were also converted to swing gates to relieve the hammerhead.
AFAIK both T1 and T3 were built with infrastructure for remote busing from day one, it was just mothballed until now. When the east holdroom for transborder CRJs was still open, the incoming buses dumped their passengers near the base of Pier F, I recall that there was an escalator up to the customs hall.
Tim MacDonald
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I remember those at Mirabel and also Air Canada had a couple of those at Pearson in the 70s/80s. Never saw them in action at Pearson but did ride it at Mirabel. These were also in use at Dulles in the USA.
mdrejhon
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As a kid, I once rode one of those. It was weird sitting in a moving room that was much wider than a bus.
WillTo
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What was the East hold room?
ninetykman
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Today on my commute on the 401 EB between EM and HO, I saw 6 planes taking off in a 4 min stretch. With the recent AC and Air China pact and more airlines applying to land at YYZ, terminal expansion has to be accelerated.
Amare
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Dont worry, the construction of the pathetic Pier G will certainly make for the allowance of more wide-bodied aircraft!
Streety McCarface
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They're not building Pier G, they're building Pier H, which seemingly can only hold aircraft as large as a 767 at best. Also, a lot of widebodies fly into terminal three. Any chance of making terminal 3 the domestic terminal and Terminal 1 purely transborder/International?