Porter Airlines has announced it will fly Embraer jets from a Toronto to Ottawa. Flights to the capital typically take off to the east and north over the City but Porter says the flights will not take off from the Island Airport. The airline has been shut down during the pandemic and this is the first word that its resumption of service includes jets. Ottawa Business Journal
2015 promise to prevent jets from the Island Airport
Residents recall the vow made by then transportation minister Marc Garneau to prevent jet travel from Island Airport over Toronto. Garneau asserts Liberals will not re-open island jets At that time The Bulldog asked, “Is this the end?”
