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Edmonton International Airport (EIA/YEG)

And you get a port and you get a port...

It was half-baked and at a time when multiple airports were looking at similar plans.
 
IanO said:
And you get a port and you get a port...

It was half-baked and at a time when multiple airports were looking at similar plans.
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How to we know that this time the pie is actually fully baked ... there is competition like Winnipeg now.
 
More of the parts are there now and it seems like there is a real desire to push it forward this time, whereas last time it felt more like a marketing angle than anything.
 
Tied to the west coast shipping port Edward and Prince Rupert as an inland distribution role for Edmonton on the cross-continent Yellowhead Highway route is a very smart thing to go after. Not only that, but northern distribution from Edmonton is a long-standing and natural standard for northern territories and Prairie eastward to Saskatchewan and Manitoba (and beyond for Asian trade) is most efficiently handled this way. Even southward movement to Red Deer, Calgary, Medicine Hat, and Lethbridge not to mention Northern Prairie States is a potential goal that makes sense. To think less is cloistered and small-scale thinking.
 
The airport released a spring outlook this morning, with growth on the horizon:

For the months of January and February, passenger levels in the main terminal building are up 220 percent compared to the same period in 2021, a total of 471,685 passengers compared to 147,299 last year. EIA recorded 2.79M total passengers in 2021, an increase of almost 200,000 compared to 2.6M in 2020. This compares to 8.15 million passengers in 2019. The busiest month of the year was August with 413,982 passengers.
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They also offered a concise list of services restarting/starting in the coming weeks and months:

New flights scheduled
Several new or resumed destinations are currently scheduled to begin at EIA through 2022 including:
· Comox, BC – Starts March 29 – Flair Airlines and June 9 - Swoop
· Nashville, TN – Starts April 14 – Flair Airlines and June 19 Swoop
· San Francisco, CA – Starts April 14 – Flair Airlines, May 1 Air Canada, June 6 Swoop
· Seattle, WA – Starts April 19 – Alaska Airlines
· London, Ont. – Starts June 2 - Swoop
· Denver, Col. – Starts June 3 – United Airlines
· Charlottetown, PEI – Starts June 15 - Swoop
· Moncton, NB – Starts June 16 – Swoop
· Toronto, Ont. – new airline Lynx Air begins service from EIA – starts July 28
· Increased service through several airlines to Halifax, Los Angeles/Burbank, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Yellowknife and Kelowna
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occidentalcapital said:
Also heard YEG working on a "massive" green logistics park on airport property.
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I wish they would focus on route development, but alas they are wayward.

Benefits. The IGBC Green Logistics Parks and Warehouses rating system addresses the three pillars of sustainability i.e. Social, Environmental and Economical; thereby, the logistics park and warehouse projects going green can have multi-fold tangible and intangible benefits.

IGBC Green Logistics Parks and Warehouses Rating System​

 
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Winter is looking sharp
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That's all we can say for now, stay tuned for a big announcement coming tomorrow! Respond your guess below.
 
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