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Ottawa International Airport

Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International Airport serves the Canadian capital city, Ottawa. The airport is among the busiest in Canada and is an important base for Air Canada and its subsidiary Air Canada Jazz.

Location of Ottawa International Airport, Canada

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Ottawa Airport maintains robust performance despite being in Montreal's shadow

17-May-12 5:51 PM

Canada must have one of the least used capital city airports in the developed world, along with Canberra in Australia. Both are government-dominated cities located away from the commercial mainstream: Montreal and Toronto in Ottawa’s case and Melbourne and Sydney in Canberra’s. But while Canberra was the only major Australian airport to record a loss of total traffic in FY2010/11 (a mild decline at -0.5%), Ottawa has undergone something of turnaround in the last 12 months and looks forward to the future with confidence. But could it do better still?

Porter Airlines CEO, Robert Deluce Porter quietly reaches profitability in fast-changing Canadian market

19-Apr-12 5:02 PM

Small Canadian carrier Porter Airlines during 2011 celebrated its fifth anniversary by recording its first annual profits as rival Air Canada spent most of the year embroiled in contentious labour negotiations with employees that have escalated into employees participating in work slow-downs during the last couple of months. In contrast, so far during 2012 Porter has enjoyed steady increases in its traffic as it continues expansion of its route network. But the carrier could start to see pressure next year in some of its markets as WestJet prepares to launch a regional subsidiary operating the same size aircraft as Porter, which could create challenges for the carrier in sustaining its new-found profitability.

Porter CEO Robert Duluce recently told The Ottawa Business Journal that Porter enjoyed its first profitable year in 2011 and expects to remain profitable this year. Porter reached its profitability milestone while some if its key business markets came under intense pressure.

Has the Canadian airport model become an anachronism?

12-Apr-12 3:35 PM

From 1992 to 2003, under a National Airports Policy, the 26 largest Canadian airports (out of more than 100 in total) began to be transferred from the control of the Federal Government to newly created local airport authorities. The airports are operated as not-for-profit facilities with stakeholders drawn from a range of public and private sector functions. Only a couple – Vancouver and Montreal – engage in any management activity outside of their own city through subsidiaries. The Government retained ownership of the 26 airports and charges high lease payments within very long leases, that are in turn recouped from landing charges. The airports have been complaining about the rents for many years without much success. But with passengers deserting Canadian border airports (and almost all the main ones are on the border) for cheaper airports in the US, the question is whether it is time for an alternative model.

NAV Canada acquires control of Searidge

22-Jul-10 5:01 PM

With air travel levels still suffering due to the lingering effects of the global financial crisis, air navigation service providers are increasingly looking at new avenues to generate revenues. NAV Canada announced at the beginning of Jul-2010 that it has acquired a majority interest in Searidge Technologies Inc, a leading provider of intelligent video solutions to air traffic control and airport markets.

Porter Airlines CEO, Robert Deluce Porter Airlines' IPO document reveals red ink, but management sees lots of blue sky

30-Apr-10 8:00 PM

Hoping to capitalise on the recent upswing in airline stocks, Porter Aviation Holdings on 16-Apr-2010 filed its preliminary prospectus for an initial public offering. Porter did not specify the number of shares that will ultimately be made available, nor the price it expects to achieve. However, it is targeting CAD120 million as proceeds from the IPO. Current stockholders would not be selling any shares.

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