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Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport
Airport Directory » Canada » Montreal » Pierre Elliott Trudeau AirportMontréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (IATA: YUL, ICAO: CYUL) (French: Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal) or Montréal-Trudeau, once known as Montréal-Dorval International Airport, is turn up in the town of Dorval, on the Island of Montreal, 20 kilometre (12 mi) from Montreal's business district core group. It is an international airport assisting Greater Montreal, alongside with the districts of northern Vermont and New York.
The airport is 1 of 2 pull off and functioned by Aéroports de Montréal (ADM), a nonprofit organization company without part capital; the other airport is Montréal-Mirabel northwest of Montreal, which was ab initio thought to replace the 1 in Dorval but currently covers about exclusively with load. Montreal-Trudeau is owned by Transport Canada, which has a 60-year rent with Aéroports de Montréal, as per Canada's National Airport Policy of 1994.
Trudeau is the busiest airport in the district of Quebec, the 3rd busiest airport in Canada by rider traffic and 4th busiest by aircraft motilities, with 12,813,199 riders and 225,219 aircraft motions in 2008. It is 1 of 8 Canadian airports with United States boundary line preclearance and is 1 of the independent gateways into Canada with 7,535,232 or 58.8% of its riders being on non-domestic voyages, the highest proportion among Canada's airports during 2008. It is 1 of 4 Air Canada hubs, and, in that capacity, assists principally Quebec, the Atlantic Provinces and Eastern Ontario.
Airlines servicing Trudeau offer voyages to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Mexico, the United States, and other destinations within Canada. It is the only Canadian airport that offers non-stop service to Africa (Casablanca and Cairo) and it also comprises the 2nd biggest duty free store in North America and biggest in Canada. The airport is home base and big Hub for Air Canada, the commonwealth's biggest air hose, Air Transat, the commonwealth's biggest charter air hose, and Air Inuit and was the home base of the currently defunct Jetsgo. It is also a hub for CanJet, Sunwing Airlines and Skyservice. It also plays a part in civil aviation as place to the main office of Innotech-Execair, Starlink, ACASS and Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) installations of Air Canada, Air Transat, MJet and ExcelTech. Transport Canada functions a Civil Aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul installation on location, with a fleet of Government owned and functioned polite aircraft. Bombardier Aerospace has an fabrication installation on location to construct regional jet plane and Challenger business organisation jet plane.
History
Early solar days
The birth of Dorval Airport was in the 1940s. At the clip, it was getting clear that the Saint-Hubert Airport (Montreal's 1st functionary airport, in functioning since 1927) is able to no longer run across the town's turning air power necessitates. The Minister of Transport bought the district at the Dorval Race Track, hence insuring the most good possible place for the new airport. Montréal-Dorval International Airport went into functioning on September 1, 1941, as RCAF Station Lachine with 3 paved landing track. By 1946, the airport was already hosting more than a twenty-five percent of a million riders a yr, turning to more than a million by the mid-1950s. It was principally pick out as an airport because of good condition and few foggy solar days. During World War II thousands of Allied aircraft passed through Dorval on the fashion to England. At 1 clip Dorval was the major transatlantic hub for commercial air power and the busiest airport in Canada with air hose such as British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C) districting at Dorval en path to New York City.
Growth
In November 1960, the airport was renamed Aéroport international Dorval de Montréal. On December 15 of that yr, the Minister of Transport kick off a new $30 million depot. It was the biggest depot in Canada and 1 of the largest in the world. Montréal-Dorval International Airport was the gateway to Canada for all European air traffic, assisting more than 2 million riders a yr.Eight yr after, Montréal-Dorval International Airport underwent a major enlargement programme.The Government of Canada promised that Dorval shall be wholly saturated by 1985, and also projected that 20 million riders shall be passing through Montreal's airports each year. They make up one's mind to build a new airport in Sainte-Scholastique (Montréal-Mirabel International Airport). As the 1st phase in the passage that would finally see Dorval closed, international voyages were to be reassigned to the new airport in 1975.
The opening and shutting of Mirabel Airport
On November 29, 1975, Montréal-Mirabel Airport went into service. With an functioning zone of 70 kilometretwo (27 sq mi) and a buffer zone of 290 kilometretwo (110 sq mi), it went the biggest airport in the world. Many connecting voyages to Canadian centers were reassigned to Montréal-Mirabel and 23 international air hose go their abroad actions there. As a result, the missionary post of Montréal-Dorval was redefined to cover domestic voyages and voyages to the United States. Dorval's traffic diminished due to the coming in the 1980s of longer-range jet plane that did not take to refuel in Montreal before cut across the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal's economical worsen in the late 1970s and 1980s had a eminent result on the airport's traffic, as international voyages changed over forth from Dorval to Toronto Pearson, which assists the bigger urban center of Toronto. Lastly, international air hose, face up with the stark economical world of functioning 2 Canadian points of entry, preferred to pass over Montreal and district in Toronto with its more better domestic and United States connexions. The Trudeau authority had germinated Mirabel Airport to manage an anticipated growing in international traffic, and, finally, to replace Dorval. That extra traffic ne'er materialised, and due to its closer propinquity to business district Montreal, all scheduled air services have currently returned to Dorval/Trudeau, while Mirabel stopped rider functioning in 2004. In May 2007, it was accounted that the International Center of Advanced Racing had signed a 25 yr rent with Aéroports de Montréal to use division of the airport as a rush landing track. At the same clip restored ground operator, Hélibellule, opened a installation at the location to provide for the private jet plane that were anticipated. The corporation also provides a rider service from Mirabel to destinations in Canada and the United States. They function 3 different types of eggbeaters; Bell 222, Robinson R22 and Aérospatiale Gazelle.
Back to Montréal-Dorval, renaissance
With all international scheduled voyages go back to Montréal-Dorval in 1997, as good as charter voyages in 2004, Montréal-Dorval International Airport was eventually able to get a true hub, where riders would not have to travel to different airports depending on the type of voyage. The integration of voyages to Montréal-Dorval ensued in an increase of rider traffic, not only because of transportation of voyages, but because of new linking chances. In 2000, 9.4 million riders used the airport at a clip when the maximal capacity was 7 million. In 2007, the airport dealt 12,817,882 riders, a new enter. The 2009 year-to-date figure are for the 1st 3 calendar month of the yr.
| Year | Total Passengers | % modify | Domestic | % modify | International | % modify | Transborder | % modify |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8,168,559 | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 2002 | 7,816,053 | -4.5% | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 2003 | 8,964,186 | +14.6% | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 2004 | 10,335,768 | +15.3% | 4,322,145 | ---- | 3,162,534 | ---- | 2,851,089 | ---- |
| 2005 | 10,892,778 | +5.4% | 4,446,976 | 2.9% | 3,461,371 | 9.4% | 2,984,431 | 4.7% |
| 2006 | 11,441,202 | +5.0% | 4,653,599 | 4.6% | 3,708,264 | 7.1% | 3,079,339 | 3.2% |
| 2007 | 12,817,882 | +12.0% | 5,393,511 | 15.9% | 4,245,620 | 14.5% | 3,178,751 | 3.2% |
| 2008 | 12,813,199 | -0.0% | 5,277,967 | -2.1% | 4,466,400 | 5.2% | 3,068,832 | -3.5% |
| Total (2001-2008) | 83,249,627 | 24,094,198 | 19,044,189 | 15,162,442 | ||||
| 2009 (YTD) | 3,101,290 | -5.3% | 1,079,502 | -11.8% | 1,256,266 | 3.9% | 765,522 | -9.1% |
Operation Yellow Ribbon
On September 11, 2001, Dorval take part in Operation Yellow Ribbon, taking in ten deviate voyages that had been hold fast for the closed air space over the United States, even though airplane pilots were inquired to keep off the airport as a security system.
Renaming
The airport was renamed by the federal authority in honor of former Canadian Prime Minister, the late Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau, on January 1, 2004, the renaming having been denoted in September the previous yr by then Minister of Transport David Collenette. This locomote stimulated some resistance, particularly Quebec sovereignists opposed to some of the policies of the former chancellor, as good as resistance from many air power historiographers and partisans who remembered Trudeau's office as an resister of the airport, programming to close up it in favor of Mirabel Airport. Many Montrealers still name to Trudeau airport as "Dorval," or "Dorval Airport."
Current public transport
Société de transport de Montréal (STM) path "204 Cardinal" and itinerary "356 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue" nighttime jitney is able to take riders to and from the Dorval jitney depot and railroad terminal which is within walking distance of the VIA's Dorval station. A shuttle jitney runs between the airport and VIA's Dorval station. Another shuttle jitney, functioned by Groupe La Québécoise, runs between the airport and business district Montreal to the Central Bus Station and Metro Berri-UQAM.
Expansion
Terminal enlargement
Montréal Trudeau underwent a major enlargement and modernisation planned to increase the depot's capacity and considerably raise the stage of rider service. In February 2000, with a budget of C$716 million, ADM denoted programmes for an extensive enlargement programme that would take Montréal-Trudeau up to stardards with other North American airports its size. The airport depot had for the most division stay the same, with the exclusion of minor redevelopments, since its opening in the 1960s. With increased rider volume ensuing from the conveyance of international scheduled riders from Mirabel Airport in 1997, as good as Air Canada's aims to do Montréal-Dorval its Eastern Canada hub, there was a strong demand to greatly spread out the depot, whose capacity of approximately 7 million riders per yr had been surpassed.
The enlargement plan included the building of several brand-new installations, including a mole for voyages to the United States (Transborder Terminal), another for abroad voyages (International Terminal) and a huge international reaches complex for riders getting in Canada from the U.S. and other international points of going. A 17-gate Transborder Concourse, an 11-gate International Concourse, new usages hallway and baggage demand area for non-domestic voyages, and an spread out parkland garage, were made between 2000 and 2005. Additionally, subdivisions of the domestic area were restituted and spread out, go with with additional retail infinite.The pass completion of the CAD$716 million enlargement gives Montréal-Trudeau the ability to assist 20 million riders a yr. This ironically executed 1 of the ends that was to be run across with the building of Mirabel. (In the 1970s, the federal authority projected that 20 million riders shall be passing through Montreal's airports each year by 1985, with 17 million through Mirabel). Aéroports de Montréal financed all of these improvements itself, with no authority allows. By the finish of 2007, $1.5 billion had been passed to upgrade Montréal-Trudeau.
Other labors
Starting in 2006, ADM started the next function of district access to upgrade road traffic to the airport, a new parkland garage, and the improvement of the domestic depot.On June 15, 2006 building set about on a new four-star Marriott hotel at the airport. Originally scheduled to be finished by September 2008, it is currently anticipated to open in August 2009. Construction was slow down because of the recession and a break in the Transborder marketplace.It will finally incorporate an metro railway station to link it with business district Montreal for quick access as good as ADM's corporate homes office, now turn up in business district Montreal. On 30 November 2006, ADM denoted programmes to relocate numerous depots at the western division of the airport in say to spread out the Transborder and International depots. Although still ill-defined how many new entrances shall be added, building is slated to get down with the remotion of depots in 2007. Trudeau Airport is only capable of care 15 million riders a yr, which it's anticipated to hit by 2014 at the latest. New installations are urgently necessitated even though the entire enlargement function hasn't even been finished yet. ADM's mark for rider capacity is 20 million a yr.
Dorval interchange
Montréal-Trudeau control tower and depot.Aéroports de Montréal, the City of Montreal, Transports Québec and Transport Canada are program to ameliorate the Dorval interchange and construct direct road connects between the airport and main road 20 and 520. Once the certification of mandate has been obtained, work is scheduled to start in June 2009 with a possible finish date of 2013. The labor will mean redesigning the routes web within the airport location.
Rail shuttle between Montréal-Trudeau and business district Montreal
Aéroports de Montréal is program to present an show rail shuttle service to speed access to the airport from the business district core group. This 20 kilometre (12 mi) long shuttle, with going every 20 min., would do the trip in under 20 min.. To this finish, Transport Canada, ADM, Via Rail, and the Agence métropolitaine de transport (Metropolitan Transit Agency) have jointly germinated a wide-ranging proposal that includes the sweetening of commuter railroad train and inter-city railroad train service between Downtown Montreal and the West Island of Montreal. The basic programmes of the labor, including monetary value and pick of final business district destination (either Lucien L'Allier railroad terminal or Gare Central) shall be do in the fall of 2009, with an anticipated finish date for the entire labor between 2013 and 2015.
Airbus A380
The last round of building ameliorated Montréal-Trudeau so that it is set to manage the new Airbus A380. Air France shall be the 1st operator of the type in Montreal and will use entrance 55, which is fit out with 2 air spans to load and drop riders on both decks of the A380 at a time. Air France had scheduled its 1st A380 voyage for mid-November 2007; the Airbus-marked aircraft (MSN007) start from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and district at Montréal–Trudeau on twelve November 2007 with some 500 invitees aboard. It go forth Montreal on 13 November to go to Orlando International Airport in Florida (United States). It returned to Montreal on 15 November, elongating to Paris on the same solar day, and then dorsum to its Toulouse ground.
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