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Montréal–Trudeau is owned by Transport Canada which has a 60-year lease with Aéroports de Montréal, as per Canada's National Airport Policy of 1994. Trudeau is the busiest airport in the province of Quebec and the third-busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic, with 21.17 million passengers in 2023.
L' aéroport international Montréal-Trudeau ( code IATA : YUL • code OACI : CYUL • TC LID : YUL )', anciennement aéroport de Dorval, est le principal aéroport international de la ville canadienne de Montréal, au Québec. Situé à Dorval, dans l' agglomération de Montréal, il accueille le trafic passager de la ville, l' aéroport ...
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Background
In the 1960s, Montreal experienced a tremendous economic boom. Massive construction projects, including the Montreal Metro and those linked with the hosting of Expo 67, brought the city international status. More and more visitors were arriving to the city, especially by airplane but not always by choice. The federal government required European airlines to make Montreal their only Canadian destination.[citation needed]That resulted in 15–20% annual growth in passenger traffic at the city's D...
Expropriation
In March 1969, the federal and provincial governments reached a compromise to locate at the St. Scholastique site, and proposals were drawn up to expropriate 39,250 hectares (97,000 acres), an area larger than the entire city of Montreal. This area is served only by a long road link via Autoroute 15 and Autoroute 50. An additional link via Autoroute 13 was planned but never completed. Also planned was the connection of Autoroute 50 to the Ottawa/Gatineauarea, a goal which would not be achieve...
Montréal–Mirabel International Airport opened for business on October 4, 1975, in time for the 1976 Summer Olympics. In the rush to get the airport open in time for the Olympics, it was decided to transfer flights to Mirabel in two stages. International flights were transferred immediately, while domestic and US flights would continue to be served ...
Mirabel was designed to be eventually expanded to six runways and six terminal buildings, with a separate STOLport also planned. The expansion was supposed to occur in a number of phases and be completed by 2000, with the expectation of serving at least 60 million passengers by the year 2025. However, the airport never got beyond the first phase of...
TRRAMM (Transport Rapide Régional Aéroportuaire Montréal-Mirabel) was a planned airport rail link between Mirabel and downtown Montreal. It was intended to have been completed by 1980, and to eventually be expanded to serve other parts of the greater Montreal region.Trains were to reach speeds of 160 km per hour (100 miles per hour), and to travel ...
Passenger
There are no longer any scheduled public operations at the airport. As of 2019, Mirabel does have a passenger terminal for private flights as well as helicopter flights. In addition, Mirabel airport was used for daily flights transporting employees for various mining companies by the Nolinor airline company.
Airbus (formerly Bombardier Aerospace) houses its A220 assembly line on the property of Mirabel Airport.[citation needed]Bell Helicopter manufactures all its commercial helicopters at a plant located adjacent to the airport. It once served as the assembly plant for Bell 505 helicopters.[citation needed]The following accidents or notable incidents occurred either at the airport, or involved aircraft using the airport: 1. January 21, 1995: Royal Air Maroc Flight 205, a Boeing 747-400 preparing to depart for New York City and Casablanca, was being de-iced by Canadian Airlines groundcrew, while its engines were running. Due to a communications error,...
Financial Times of Canada. (1975). Mirabel. Special ed. Don Mills, ON: Financial Times of Canada.Aeroports de Montréal ADM HistoryDurivage, Simon."Mirabel, airport of the year 2000." Montreal, Montreal. September 8, 1992. Video Archive.Radio-Canada, "De Mirabel à Dorval", May 14, 1999, Web archive (in French)Media related to Montréal-Mirabel International Airportat Wikimedia Commons 1. Official website 2. Page about Mirabel Airport in the Canadian Owners & Pilots Association Places to FlyAirport Directory 3. The airport whose demise was caused by rail absencea critique of the Mirabel Airport closure 4. Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs fo...
Montreal (em francês: Montréal) é a maior cidade da província canadense de Quebec e o segundo município mais populoso do Canadá.Originalmente chamada de Ville-Marie, ou "Cidade de Maria", [6] a cidade foi renomeada para "Montréal", uma versão arcaica, escrita de forma simplificada, em homenagem ao Monte Royal, um morro localizado em um parque no centro da cidade. [7]
Montreal has two international airports, one for passenger flights only, and the other for cargo. Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (also known as Dorval Airport) in the City of Dorval serves all commercial passenger traffic and is the headquarters for Air Canada [1] and Air Transat. [2]
In Canada, the National Airport System ( French: Réseau national d’aéroports, NAS) is a group of major airports defined in the National Airports Policy published in 1994. It was intended to include all airports with an annual traffic of 200,000 passengers or more, as well as airports serving the national, provincial and territorial capitals.
Dorval Island as painted by Frances Anne Hopkins, 1866. Nuns' Island at dusk. Small island near Saint-Eustache in the Rivière des Mille Îles.. The Hochelaga Archipelago (French: Archipel d'Hochelaga), also known as the Montreal Islands, is a group of islands at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers in the southwestern part of the province of Quebec, Canada.
