John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport or
Hamilton International, , is an
international airport in
Hamilton,
Ontario,
Canada. It is named for
John C. Munro, a Hamilton
Member of Parliament and
cabinet minister.
The airport is designed for use by large airplanes on overseas flights, and includes a
asphalt runway with centreline lighting for low-visibility operations, as well as a smaller asphalt runway. In late 2007, Trade Port Co. and Citi Corp. bought land from the city of Hamilton to expand runway 06/24 to . This is expected to happen sometime between 2015 and 2019. It serves as an alternate and reliever for nearby
Toronto Pearson International Airport. The airport is situated 40 mi (65 km) from downtown
Toronto and southwest of Hamilton.
In 2000
WestJet expanded to Canada's eastern region, choosing Hamilton as the airline's eastern region
hub, and flying to destinations from
Newfoundland and Labrador to
British Columbia. In April 2004, seeking to compete with Air Canada for business travelers, WestJet moved its eastern hub from Hamilton to Toronto Pearson International Airport in
Mississauga. While Hamilton retained flights to many destinations, all of the service between Hamilton and
Montreal and
Ottawa was moved to Toronto. In the wake of the WestJet pullout,
CanJet began service to Hamilton in 2003. Then in the spring of 2005, two weeks after
Air Canada Jazz announced...
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