04-02-2017, 08:10 AM
(04-01-2017, 10:59 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: Master Plan report at council on Tuesday:
http://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Coun...017#page=7
Basically, moving away from the up-front investment model to actions based on "triggers" based on different criteria/performance measures.
I like many of the recommendations of the YKF Master Plan and Business Plan. Basically, the airport will grow as the number of passengers grows. That just makes sense. However, the airport has been losing passengers lately and, today, there is only one scheduled flight a day. The way to fix this is to continue up-front investment. Expand the runway and build a new, larger, terminal. I know that's difficult to sell to taxpayers but if the airport is important to the local economy then politicians will have to take a stand. They did that regarding the LRT and it was the right thing to do.
The current terminal is embarrassingly small and airlines may look elsewhere (Hamilton/London) to operate. If YKF holds off expanding until there is more service, airlines may hold off until YKF is enlarged. That would be a nasty circular argument.