Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International airport of Montreal

the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau international airport of Montreal or simply Montreal-Trudeau is located in the town of Dorval, Quebec, Canada, in the Agglomération of Montreal. It is the primary education airport serving the passenger traffic of the city. the other airport of the the metropolitan Community of Montreal, located with Mirabel, serves only the transport of the cargoes.

The airport was in the past called the International airport of Montreal-Dorval . It was renamed on January 1st 2004 with the memory of old the Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau, to the great displeasure of expropriés of the airport of Mirabel (built in open country under the Trudeau government and maintaining practically abandoned).

In June 2005, the new international pier and the complex of the international arrivals were inaugurated and are now in operation. The Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau international airport was one of the first airports in the world to be had a barrier of loading which can accommodate new the Airbus A380, whose arrival in Montreal is now planned for 2008 following the many delays met with a380 project at Airbus.

History

===La birth of Dorval=== The birth of the airport of Dorval goes back to beginning of the year 40 whereas the airport of Saint-Hubert, first official airport of Montreal in service since 1927, is not enough any more with the new needs for aviation montréalaise. The ministry for Transport then acquires the ground of the racecourse of Dorval, which offers the best site available.

The airport of Montreal (Dorval) will begin its activities on September 1st, 1941 with three paved tracks. Since 1946, the airport accommodates already nearly a quarter of million passengers per annum and more than one million in the middle of the Fifties. Dorval is then the airport more stocked in Canada.

In November 1960, the airport is renamed “Montreal-Dorval International airport” and, on December 15th, the ministry for Transport inaugurates the new air terminal, at the cost of 30 million dollars. It is largest with Canada and one of largest in the world. Dorval is the main door in Canada for all the European traffic and the airport accommodates more than two million passengers in 1961.

Eight years later, the airport of Dorval requires a major program of expansion. Taking into account the increase envisaged in the air traffic and restrictions on the development of the airport in an urban environment, the Canadian government decides to build a new airport with Holy-Scholastique (Mirabel), where the international flights since 1975 will be transferred.

The appearance on stage of Mirabel

November 29th, 1975, the new “Montreal-Mirabel International airport” enters in service. Equipped with an operational zone of 7.000 hectares surrounded by a buffer zone of 29.000 hectares, it becomes the vastest airport site of the world by dealing with all the international flights, just as certain flights of correspondence bound for the great urban centres of the country. Twenty-three international air lines transfer their activities to it overseas. Consequently, the Montreal-Dorval International airport must redefine its own airport vocation by ensuring the interior flights (in Canada) as well as the transborder services bound for the United States. In the years which will follow, a new environment of businesses will take seat on a continent scale.

The role of Airports of Montreal

In December 1986, the federal government announces that Dorval and Mirabel will be joined together in an airport system integrated under only one structure of management. The installation of this new structure will begin on April 1st, 1988.

In 1993, Aéroports of Montreal finishes its first complete exercise, dedicated to the simultaneous development of the two airports with a view to integrated regional development. In 1995, Aéroports of Montreal announces an investment plan of 150 million dollars to restore basic in roof the Montreal-Dorval International airport and to modify some of the infrastructures of the Montreal-Mirabel International airport.

Each of the two international airports has today of a mission and a specific crenel of development to compete with on the scale of North America. The Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International airport of Montreal offers to the air companies and to the travellers of the correspondences integrated on all the types of scheduled flights while the Montreal-Mirabel International airport develops the sectors of the cargo liner and the industrialist.

The international airports Montreal-Trudeau and Montreal-Mirabel now carry out their airport vocations in conformity with the values and the mission of Airports of Montreal.

Piers and destinations

Montreal-Trudeau offers services of Montreal-Trudeau flights to more than 100 airports in the whole world, on five continents. That is to say the second highest number of any Canadian airport, after Toronto-Pearson.

International pier

Barriers 52 to 61

  • Air Algérie (Algiers)

  • Air Canada (Bridgetown, Cancun, Cayo Coconut, Cayo Largo, Frankfurt, Holguin, Romana, London/Heathrow, Mexico City, Montego Bay, Nassau, Paris/CDG, Point-with-Clown, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rome-Fiumicino, Varadero)
  • Air France (Paris/Charles de Gaulle)
  • Air Saint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre)
  • Air Deckchair (Acapulco, Athens, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels, Camaguey, Cancun, Cayo Coconut, Cayo Largo, Fort-de-France, Fort-Lauderdale, Holguin, Ixtapa, Ceiba, Romana, Lisbon, London/Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Managua, Manzanillo (Cuba), Manzanillo (Mexico City), Marseilles, Montego Bay, Nantes, Nice, Orlando, Panama City, Paris/CDG, Porlamar, Port-au-Prince, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Venice, Point-Clown, Rome, San Andres Island, San Jose, Samana, San Salvador, Santa Clara, Santiago, Santo Domingo, St Maarten, Toulouse, Valence, Varadero, Vienna)
  • British Airways (London/Heathrow)
  • Corsairfly (Paris/Orly)
  • SCUMS Czech Airlines (Prague)
  • Cubana (Camaguey, Cayo Largo, Cayo Coconut, Havana, Holguin, Varadero)
  • EgyptAir (Cairo)
  • JetX Airlines (Reykjavik)
  • KLM (Amsterdam)
  • Lufthansa (Munich)
  • Mexicana (Mexico City)
  • Olympic Airways (Athens)
  • Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
  • Royal Jordanian (Amman)
  • International SATA (Delgada Bridged)
  • Skyservice (Camaguey, Cancun, Cayo Coco, Fort Lauderdale, Holguin, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Varadero)
  • Sunwing Airlines (Acapulco, Cancun, Cayo Coconut, Cienfuegos, Holguin, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Panama City, Santa Lucia, Santiago of Cuba, Varadero)
  • International Swiss Air Lines (Zurich)
  • Thomas Cook Airlines (London/Gatwick, Manchester)
  • Transaero Airlines (Moscow/Domodedovo)
  • WestJet (Ceiba, Romana, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, San Salvador (El El Salvador), San Salvador, Santa Clara/Cayo Santa Maria, Santo Domingo)
  • Zoom Airlines (Acapulco, Camaguey, Cancun, Romana, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

Transborder pier (with the the United States)

Barriers 72 to 89

The travellers bound for the United States pass the American customs formalities to Montreal. That then makes it possible to arrive at a barrier domesticates once with destination accelerating thus largely the correspondences.

  • Air Canada (Boston, Chicago-O' Hare, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York-LaGuardia, Orlando, San Francisco, Tampa, Washington-Reagan)

  • Air Deckchair (Fort Lauderdale, Orlando)
  • American Airlines (Chicago-O' Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami)
    • American Eagle (Chicago-O' Hare, New York-JFK)
  • CanJet (Orlando)
  • Continental Airlines
    • Continental Express train operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland, Newark)
  • Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
  • Northwest Airlines (Strait)
  • Sunwing Airlines (Fort Lauderdale, Orlando)
  • United Airlines
    • United Express train operated by Shuttle America (Chicago-O' Hare, Washington-Dulles)
  • US Airways (Philadelphia)
    • US Airways Express train operated by Air Wisconsin (Philadelphia)
  • WestJet (Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa)

Domestic pier

Barriers 1 to 34

  • Air Canada (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, St-John' S (TN), Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)

    • Air Canada Jazz (Bagotville, Bay-Comeau, Bathurst, Charlottetown, Deer Lake, Fredericton, Halifax, Hamilton, Islands of the Madeleine, London (ONE), Moncton, Mount-Pretty, Ottawa, Quebec, Rouyn-Noranda, Holy John (NB), Sydney (), Toronto-Pearson, Valley-in Or, Winnipeg)
  • Air Creebec (Chibougamau, Nemiscau, Roberval, Valley-in Or)
  • Air Georgian (Moncton)
  • Air Inuit (Kuujjuarapik, Quebec, the Large one, Salluit)
  • Air Labrador (Quebec, Goose Bay, St John' S)
  • Air Deckchair (Toronto-Pearson)
  • First Air (Kuujjuaq)
  • To carry Airlines (Halifax, Toronto Island)
  • Provincial Airlines (Seven-Islands)
  • Sunwing Airlines (Toronto, Vancouver)
  • Westjet (Calgary, Charlottetown, Edmonton, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg)

Projects

The Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International airport of Montreal is the subject of important work of enlarging and modernization which aim at increasing the capacity of the air terminal and substantially to raise the level of service offered to the passengers.

Levelling of the domestic pier

The Airports of Montreal undertook the modernization of the existing domestic pier. The interior installation of the departure lounges will be in particular harmonized with that of the new piers transborder and international. The footbridges of loading will be replaced and the stations of parking of aircraft will be reconfigured.

Construction of a hotel

In autumn 2008, a hotel of 275 rooms will open its doors, adjacent with the transborder pier, this one will be under the banner Marriott. Also, WMD, Via Rail and the metropolitan Agence of transport project to build a rail link between Montreal-Trudeau and the central station of Montreal.

Reconfiguration of the Dorval exchanger

The Airports of Montreal, the town of Montreal and Transports Quebec, in.liaison.with the government of Canada, project to refit the Dorval exchanger and to build direct links between the airport and highways 20 and 520. Once the certificate of authorization obtained, work will start in 2007 to finish in 2011. This project is also accompanied by a reconfiguration of the highway network inside the airport site.

Data

Montreal-Trudeau was classified to the 3 E row of the airports of the Canada of many passengers in 2005 and with the 99 E world rank for the number of transported passengers.

Source: Airports of Montréal

In 2006 the traffic of the passengers increased by 4,7% to reach 11,4 million travellers. The volume of goods has as for him reaches 275.000 tons (+5%). It is the 2nd highest volume with the Canada, after the airport Pearson with Toronto ( Source: “Businesses” of March 3rd, 2007 ).

Restricted exploitation the night

The airport Montreal-Trudeau is open 24 hours per day for the propeller planes and the jets of less than 45 tons. Except exceptions, the jets of more than 45 tons cannot take off between midnight and 7:00 and they cannot atterir between 1:00 and 7:00.

External bond

  • Official site of the Airport of Montreal

  • 1st visit of a-380 Airbus, Monday, November 12, 2007 http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_SMNjz4N4

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