Toronto’s downtown airport, on an island just off the lakefront, is back in business after 18 months of pandemic-caused shutdown. Operations resumed Wednesday.
And, as a kind of bonus, the airport that closed with only one scheduled airline, Porter Air, has re-opened with two, as Air Canada resumed Billy Bishop service for the first time in years. It will serve five round trips a day to Montreal, flown by its Air Canada Express unit with a DeHavilland Dash 8-400.
Porter Air will resume flights first to its Canadian destinations in Montreal, Ottawa and Thunder Bay. To be added next are Halifax, Moncton, Quebec City and St Johns. Service to its U.S. destinations in Boston, New York, Chicago and Washington will start on Sept. 17.
PortsToronto, which owns and operates the field, pointed out that the restart was on the 82nd anniversary of the first commercial flight from the field in 1939.
