As of 2024, there will be flights from Longueuil, Quebec, to Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Halifax
The main part of Saint-Hubert Airport’s plans to grow is a new terminal for commercial flights from Montreal’s South Shore to places like Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Halifax. This is expected to cost at least $200 million.
The terminal will be east of the airport and cover 40,000 square meters. It will be able to handle up to four million people a year. Porter Airlines, which is based in Toronto, will fly out of the Longueuil, Que., airport. However, the airport says it wants more airlines to do the same.
Plans call for a 130-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel to be built next to the airport. It would open at the same time as the terminal.
Monday, Quebec Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault and Longueuil Mayor Catherine Fournier held a news conference to talk about the project.
Either Pearson International Airport or Billy Bishop Airport is where flights to Toronto would land. The airline Pascan, which is based in Longueuil, also wants to offer more regional flights.
“Our terminal meets a growing need to make sure that travelers in Quebec get good service.” “We also want to help develop new technologies in the field of aviation,” Yanic Roy, the CEO of Saint-Hubert Airport, said in a statement.
In 2018, the airport opened a new runway that can accommodate bigger planes like the Boeing 737-200.
The airport has had to deal with noise complaints from people who live nearby while it tries to become a major player in the aviation industry. This month, the city and airport came to an agreement that commercial flights will not be allowed from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. beginning next year.
About 200 planes take off from Saint-Hubert Airport right now.
Work on the new terminal will start in the spring of 2024 and should be done by the fall of that year.