Air Canada takes off from Toronto Island

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A few years ago, when the new Porter Airlines settled in at the Billy Bishop Airport, commonly known as the Toronto Island Airport, near downtown Toronto, Air Canada was unconcerned.

However, the proximity between the airport and the country’s largest business center in has worked extremely well for Porter and propelled its rapid growth. In allowing customers to bypass long, expensive journeys by taxi from Toronto Pearson airport, located much further from the business center, Porter Airlines has a lot of fans.
 
Since then, Air Canada had a change of heart, wanting access of the small island airport, but was prevented by Porter’s controlling interest of the terminal.
 
Air Canada, in collaboration with Continental Airlines who also wanted to land its planes there, filed a complaint with the Toronto Port Authority. The airline was successful in its bid to use the airport and will, as of February 2011, offer 15 non-stop daily flights between Montreal and Toronto.
 
Porter previously held 112 of the 202 places available and the Toronto Port Authority has allocated the remaining 90. Of these, 44 will go to Porter, 30 at Air Canada and Continental has the last 16.