If they extended the tunnel under the runways through to the park, then arriving passengers could go and sit in the park while waiting for their connection (there can't be too many airports where you can do that). Charging people walking to the park would help to pay for tunnel construction.

Even if it wasn't covered with muck, the "aquatic view" would be a view of the bottom of Toronto Harbour. In other news, http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/porter-airlines-to-conduct-canadas-first-biofuel-powered-revenue-flight-286488 This is the sort of thing that could give some...

Not sure how deep the channel is -- you wouldn't want ships with a deep draft scraping the top of the tunnel.

I guess the Druxy's is gone. Are there any restaurants at all at the airport now?

I think it was all very complicated. Construction had started on the bridge -- shovels were in the ground. B. Deluce had threatened to sue the city for $500 million based on investments/contracts he had made assuming the construction of the bridge. To possibly complicate things, the...

According to wikipedia ("I read it on the internet so it must be true"), they also didn't build a tunnel to the island in 1935 and the feds paid $100,000 to cancel it.

The feds ended up paying something like $35 million to cancel the bridge (because the city wouldn't agree to pay anything). It kind of makes you want to go into the non-construction business. I could have not built the bridge for less than $20 million. I could offer a pretty good deal on...

The bridge would only need to open up for boats occasionally for most of the year. While there are busy times on summer afternoons, most of the time there isn't a lot of boat traffic. An advantage of the ferry/tunnel approach is that the taxi/dropoff/pickup area can be on the mainland...

That would be particularly useful for people to transfer between Porter regional flights and the various international flights out of Pearson. Unfortunately, making things easier for people from Sudbury that want to go to Europe isn't a priority for Toronto politicians. At a minimum it would...

I don't think it is very likely in the near future, but in the longer term it really will depend on what sorts of governments are in place at the time the issue resurfaces. Certainly both the feds and local governments are more favourable towards the airport than certain previous governments...

You will still be able to shuttle across on the ferry if you don't want to walk through the tunnel.

I was just pointing out some of the logistics involved in targeting more distant destinations. Porter has already shown with Halifax and St. John's that they are prepared to move outside of their business plan if a good opportunity arises; their original plan put Halifax outside of their...

That bridge looks like it would be inconvenient to cross if you are hauling luggage....

Considering that tall boats would be going under it and that planes would be flying over it, perhaps this isn't the very best technology for our particular situation. Stringing wires across a flight path into an airport just sounds like a bad idea (and you don't want any appearance of safety...

Cabotage restrictions ("Eighth Freedom") prevent you from picking someone up in the US and transporting them to another destination within the US (you can only do this if the passenger originated in Canada or will eventually end up there). Picking someone up in the US and taking them to a 3rd...

No, it just means the focus will be on destinations within 500 miles of Toronto, as it always has been. Even if they could fly to Mexico out of YTZ, there is no way they could compete on price or time against the major vacation airlines like Sunwing. Their main opportunities lie in the closer...

The Q400 has a 2500 km range. It just needs more runway than is available at YTZ to take off with that much fuel. At pretty much any other airport it isn't a problem (I think it needs 4600 feet to take off fully loaded).

They might be able to make Cancun from Windsor, although it would be a long flight. They could almost certainly do it with only one stop from any of their other airports. EDIT: They might even be able to sell tickets in both directions at their stop if it is in the U.S. I think we would see...

Porter is setting up a vacation division: http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article2339959.html

They got turned down by the US government. There is room in the terminal. I'm guessing they will go back and ask again once they have increased their US service a bit more.