16 more slots are now available at the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. United has decided that they will not use the slots previously allocated to Continental. I expect that they just didn't have enough Q400s to go around...

I doubt the decision to build or not build Pickering airport will be based on potential Ottawa or Montreal traffic. Airports provide can provide service to a lot more places than can be served effectively by rail.

They could if the paint shop was at an airport, like Pearson or Dorval. Did Bombardier repaint the Sky Regional planes? Or does Air Canada have its own paint shop somewhere?

Do new planes get painted with the Porter colours at Downsview? Or does that get done somewhere else?

... and takes a $1 billion out of the private-sector economy, driving down private-sector employment. Each $1 billion the government spends on train constructions means either $1 billion more in taxes and/or $1 billion more in government debt (and future interest payments). If you assume that...

The last Q200 was delivered in early 2009. I think they made a few Q300s during 2009 and that was it for them as well. Final delivered numbers were Q100: 299, Q200: 105, Q300 267 and Q400:344 (with a Q400 backlog of 62 as of Jan 31/2011)

When people look "enthused" on the subway, other people tend to back away and look for the exits.

Calgary is spending $295 million for a tunnel to their airport. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/02/08/calgary-airport-tunnel-vote-approve.html

Hilton Head Island is almost 100 nautical miles farther from Toronto than Myrtle Beach, and I understand that MB is pushing the limits of range for Porter. I suspect that HHI is just a bit too far for a non-stop flight. Would adding HHI as an additional stop to the MB run be an option...

How much is the price difference between Q300s and Q400s? You could probably replace most Q300 routes with Q400s. The question remains as to whether it would be economical to replace -100s with Q400s, even if you are going to end up running them less than half full. If they were to do...

The TPA is moving forward on building some sound barriers and an engine-run up area. The barriers will be 8 metres high, one facing the harbor and one facing the Western Channel. The run-up area will be on the far side of the airport, near the beach...

It is important to consider cost-effectiveness. This is why many roads are not grade separated; it is not worth the cost of doing so for every road. For transit, putting some of it underground (or above the ground) may make sense, while supplementing the underground transit with local...

I was wondering more for the purposes of looking at existing Air Canada Jazz routes (especially within Ontario) that use Dash-8s and CRJs and whether they could support a Q400 (Jazz, Porter or otherwise)...

If a sales tax was implemented to pay for local infrastructure, why wouldn't it be appropriate for the municipality or province to collect it? EDIT: or perhaps include it in the provincial portion of an increased HST.

If you are going to take local dollars and spend them locally, then the taxation should be done at a local level. How exactly that would be done would be for each province to decide. This would also let each municipality/region decide for themselves the level of transportation spending they...

I think local transit is exactly the sort of thing that the federal government has no business getting involved in. It is a purely local and/or regional issue and therefore the business of the province/municipality. Why should other parts of the country be subsidizing transit in Toronto when...

I searched the interwebs and found some photos of the Morningstar/427 intersection: 1981 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/loneprimate/2955930210/ (at the top of the picture). 1989 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/loneprimate/306488176/ You can see remnants of the southward jog added between the...

Does anyone have any data on the difference in fuel burn/efficiency between the Q400 and the CRJs, Dash-8-100s and -300s? My understanding is that a Q400 burns slightly less per hour than the CRJs but also goes slightly slower. For Ottawa-Thunder Bay, assuming the same number of passengers...

I don't know. I didn't see any Porter YYZ numbers except for the one flight to PHL in April. I did combine numbers in several months where there were multiple entries for the same route (I assume the small numbers represent charter flights). EDIT: Here is an article about Sky Regional Airlines...

It is possible that even if the loads are light, they would keep the Chicago service for several reasons: - the more US destinations they can claim, the more visibility they get in the US and the more they look like a "real airline", particularly in American eyes. - if they start cutting back...