06-21-2025, 09:32 AM
(06-20-2025, 04:15 PM)bravado Wrote:(06-19-2025, 07:25 PM)SammyOES Wrote: I couldn’t find good numbers for how much money the region supports the airport (particularly operating + capital combined) but this is the benefit:
So not sure I’d say it doesn’t benefit too many locals.
Without Flair, will the 2025 + beyond figures compare well or poorly against those 2023 numbers? How much does/did the Region spend in capital and ongoing improvements to support those figures from 2023?
I just have a (totally uninformed) hunch that the airport is a big hog of local government time + resources and seems to get no pushback about it, unlike other public services that have to constantly beg and defend their existence but can provide much bigger proportional returns to the public.
How does the level of investment and effort that the Region has put into the airport compare with what has been put into the King-Victoria transit hub? Or is it an apples and oranges situation because the airport is relatively insulated from other agencies or companies while the King-Victoria hub has to deal with Metrolinx and the railways (among others)?