Pearson’s new website, launched yesterday. You probably thought Pearson was just a grim necessity of life in Toronto, but no! Now, subsequent to yesterday’s launch of the airport’s new website and logo, it’s a “leading international gateway,” committed “to being the ultimate host.” Why the change? Pamela Griffith-Jones, chief marketing and commercial officer for the [...]

Source: Toronto Life, July 1968 Last week, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority announced that it would end a $1.5 million subsidy to Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport. This move has prompted Toronto Airways, who has operated the airport since the early 1960s, to consider reducing hours or closing the site entirely after more than forty years [...]

In typical fashion, we’ve all been talking for decades about a fixed rail link between the busiest airport in Canada and the busiest surface transit hub in Canada, but despite near-universal agreement on its necessity, the project is still vapour. The $200 million+ Blue22 plan designed in the mid-’90s was originally slated for completion right [...]

Apparently 6% GST is still being charged in parking lots at Pearson airport, in spite of the fact that the tax was lowered to 5% on January 1. The overpricing is being blamed on a system glitch that is being “worked on,” but in the meantime, the GTAA plans to keep the extra cash for [...]