Montreal travelers uninterested in passing via YUL now have a brand new possibility.
After years of development, Montreal Metropolitan Airport’s new terminal opened this morning in Saint-Hubert, bringing business flights again to a web site that final noticed scheduled passenger service in 1940. The airport, referred to as MET, is about 15 km from downtown and was constructed to deal with as much as 4 million passengers a 12 months.
Porter Airways and Pascan Aviation are the 2 carriers working out of MET from day one, masking a fairly big selection of Canadian locations between them. Porter is on the longer home routes — Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto (Billy Bishop and Pearson), Hamilton, St. John’s, Halifax, Moncton, and Charlottetown. Pascan is dealing with Quebec and Maritime flying, with service to Quebec Metropolis, Gaspé, the Magdalen Islands, Saint John, Halifax, and Charlottetown. Round 30 each day flights are anticipated at launch.
The placement is promoting level for an enormous chunk of the area. Roughly half of Larger Montreal’s inhabitants lives nearer to Saint-Hubert than to Trudeau, which is a fairly compelling reality for those who’re coming from the South Shore, Montérégie, or the Jap Townships.
The airport’s terminal has 9 boarding gates and a 900-seat ready lounge.
MET sits about 15 km from downtown Montreal and is accessible by automotive or by way of an specific shuttle that connects to the Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke metro station. The retail inside is completely Quebec-based: a Bâton Rouge, a Café Dépôt, and a comfort and journey items retailer.
The terminal was constructed to deal with as much as 4 million passengers a 12 months. Whether or not it will get there is dependent upon what number of travellers resolve to present it a shot. However as of as we speak, the door is open