Calgary International Airport - New Terminal, Runway, Control Tower

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Lots of hard rock mining in the area. I'm not sure what part of that would drive air traffic, but they wouldn't be wasting money on it if there weren't a reason. Related to the major projects office opening in Calgary? Just searching mines shows several offices in town. Maybe?

For sure I assume that their market research is very good, as this would be super expensive/intensive to setup. More pointing out my ignorance. The mining angle is an interesting one! I wonder if we have lots of generic industrial service companies because of the energy sector that also serve mining?

[Arsenal14]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

I had to look at a map to find out where North Bay is. Where are the people coming from to fill up a plane twice a week? Tourists flocking to Algonquin Provincial Park when they get sick of the mountains over here?

I'm not sure if there is enough demand to support it, but I'm personally happy about it. My wife's family is all in Huntsville so North Bay would be the closest airport and would save flying to Toronto and driving through that mess of traffic. But I would guess Algonquin/Muskoka are the main draw. There's probably people here who are from Ontario and still have places in "cottage country".