SWOOP – Making Waves at Airports

The biggest airports often get the most attention but, as our recent North America’s Airport Leaders 2019 report demonstrates, there are great things happening at some of the continent's smaller airports. Among the Medium airports (0.05%-0.24% of total airline seats) and the Small airports (more than 10,000 seats but fewer than 0.05% of all seats) we noticed a handful of Canadian airports which are seeing rapid growth.

Among these was Toronto Hamilton Airport (YHM), situated at the western end of Lake Ontario and equidistant from downtown Toronto and Niagara Falls. Between the 12-month period to the end of May 2018 and the most recent 12-month period, airline capacity grew by 54%, remarkable for an airport of this size in a relatively stable market and with a major competitor just up the road. Similarly, Abbotsford Airport, not far from Vancouver, grew by 43%. Abbotsford is located just 63km from Vancouver but also competes for airline business and passenger traffic with Bellingham which is only 29km away across the border, and possibly Seattle too.

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