Regions airport looking for more business
Now that Vancouver has been added to the list of places you can fly to from Waterloo, what's next?
General Manager of Waterloo Region International Airport, Chris Wood, tells 570 News there are no done deals at this point, but Halifax and Winnipeg are being discussed with air carriers.
Wood adds they also get requests daily for service to Florida, and there is demand for business travel to Chicago and New York.
He says the airport has had discussions with Delta Airlines about their former service to Detroit, but that company is "not quite ready yet to put their foot back in the water."
Wood says there are also talks with Porter Airlines to set up shop in our local airport, to steal some of Air Canada's business of Regional travellers flying to and from Toronto's Billy Bishop Island Airport.
Wood says it's up to individual airlines to set up new destinations, the airport's job is to show there is a demand for any given destination.
But he says it's a chicken and egg situation: if airlines set up flights from his airport, passengers come in, but they need to have those passengers to get the flights.
Wood says 96 per cent of airline travellers to or from the Region still use Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
He explains it's hard to compete with the choice of destinations from Pearson and the frequency of flights.
General Manager of Waterloo Region International Airport, Chris Wood, tells 570 News there are no done deals at this point, but Halifax and Winnipeg are being discussed with air carriers.
Wood adds they also get requests daily for service to Florida, and there is demand for business travel to Chicago and New York.
He says the airport has had discussions with Delta Airlines about their former service to Detroit, but that company is "not quite ready yet to put their foot back in the water."
Wood says there are also talks with Porter Airlines to set up shop in our local airport, to steal some of Air Canada's business of Regional travellers flying to and from Toronto's Billy Bishop Island Airport.
Wood says it's up to individual airlines to set up new destinations, the airport's job is to show there is a demand for any given destination.
But he says it's a chicken and egg situation: if airlines set up flights from his airport, passengers come in, but they need to have those passengers to get the flights.
Wood says 96 per cent of airline travellers to or from the Region still use Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
He explains it's hard to compete with the choice of destinations from Pearson and the frequency of flights.
