AlvinofDiaspar
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It would make sense - I imagine the appetite of flying to the US for connecting flights has gone way down.
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It would make sense - I imagine the appetite of flying to the US for connecting flights has gone way down.
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Monarch Butterfly
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Wonder if Gander International Airport (Newfoundland and Labrador), YQX, could see an increase in connecting flights?
BermudaTO37
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LOT will have on Saturday’s only starting in July, 3 flights every week till Sept and double daily. Happy to see expansion.
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LOT Polish Airlines NS25 Intercontinental Network Changes – 12MAR25 — AeroRoutes
Published at 1400GMT 13MAR25 LOT Polish Airlines earlier this year filed changes to its long-haul service to/from Warsaw , where the airline increases service to Chicago, Tokyo and Toronto. Warsaw – Chicago O'Hare 15JUN25 – 28SEP25 Increase from 10 to 11 weekly (12 from 03JUL25) LO031 WAW0
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BermudaTO37
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Qatar going to 5 times a week in June then daily later this year in October.
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Qatar Airways Expands Toronto Service From mid-June 2025 — AeroRoutes
Published at 0600GMT 18APR25 Qatar Airways from June 2025 plans to expand service to Canada, as the airline schedules 5 weekly Doha – Toronto flights from 19JUN25, instead of 3 weekly. Service will further expand to daily from 26OCT25. This route is operated by Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. QR767
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Richard White
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Reports of a shooting at Pearson Terminal 1
CP24: https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/...ent-at-toronto-pearson-international-airport/
CP24: https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/...ent-at-toronto-pearson-international-airport/
Ratazana
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Spring cleaning and found these gems from my archive of some high school project I did on T3.
Tim MacDonald
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That brings back memories. Is there a date for the top graphic? I'm wondering if that was before the Feb 1991 opening. My ramp crew room was at the end of the right pier where the airplane is and I never remember Canadian partner running J31s or Atr42s from there - at least from 91 to mid 90s. They were always down by gates B8 and B9 that Eastern was supposed to use. Maybe my memory is a little fogged from the cold meds I took
Ratazana
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They are both from Maclean’s Feb 25 1991.That brings back memories. Is there a date for the top graphic? I'm wondering if that was before the Feb 1991 opening. My ramp crew room was at the end of the right pier where the airplane is and I never remember Canadian partner running J31s or Atr42s from there - at least from 91 to mid 90s. They were always down by gates B8 and B9 that Eastern was supposed to use. Maybe my memory is a little fogged from the cold meds I took
IRT_BMT_IND
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It's interesting how small the terminal was when in opened, I'm not sure when the A concourse opened (though it was mothballed for years), and the GTAA expanded the C pier in the early 00s to make it wider and added a bunch of gates on the east side (I'm not sure if this expansion was originally in the T3 plans or if it's something the GTAA came up with to deal with rising demand). In the 90s there really weren't a lot of long haul flights to YYZ compared to how many we get today, some days of the week T3 would see a single digit number of widebodies. It really shows how things like efficient twinjets and ETOPS totally changed the economics of air travel.
And T3 was so amazingly clean and modern when it was new compared to the existing T1 and T2 owned by Transport Canada (especially T2 which felt like a bus station). I do appreciate how the expansions and renovations the GTAA has done are mostly coherent with the original early 90s architecture and design language, including how they kept the subtle use of the old Canadi>n teal corporate colours.
And T3 was so amazingly clean and modern when it was new compared to the existing T1 and T2 owned by Transport Canada (especially T2 which felt like a bus station). I do appreciate how the expansions and renovations the GTAA has done are mostly coherent with the original early 90s architecture and design language, including how they kept the subtle use of the old Canadi>n teal corporate colours.
Ratazana
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Found another one. Toronto Star Feb 22 1991.
JasonParis
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Interesting how transit access wasn't one of the metrics for a good terminal in 1991.
Tim MacDonald
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I never thought of T3 as being small even before the grand hall extension and the tearing down of the cargo area allowing gates on both sides of the pier.. The satellite terminal was finished in 1992 and was used extensively in Film and TV before finally opening (beyond the commuter gates that Delta Comair used to use on the northwest corner) in I believe summer of 1998 when Canada 3000 moved over.
I'm laughing at the author of the Star article stating that the check-in desks for the Intair counters were "excellent." Of course they were. Nobody ever flew their small fleet of F100s and I remember single digit passenger loads. I think they were gone sometime in 1991. I know they were around in March of 1991 but they may have lasted a little more into the spring but I'm drawing a blank now. I doubt it if they made it to 1992.
There were so few options back then. I remember Gray Coach to Islington station and maybe the malton bus but there was nothing like the Kipling Express or that sort of thing.