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Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
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(07-21-2015, 10:30 AM)jgsz Wrote: Pearson (YYZ) is close but during winter storms or rush hour traffic the drive may take over two hours.  And when you include the mandatory three hour early arrival for international flights we may as well drive to Kingston or Detroit.

Mandatory three hours?  The cutoff time is 60 minutes, at least for Air Canada; of course you should plan to be there somewhat earlier.
http://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/a...eckin.html

The challenge for YKF is that we are so close to YYZ.  It doesn't make sense to do connections to YYZ, and yet there is not enough traffic to warrant a meaningful frequency of point-to-point flights to a substantial set of destinations.  And if you have a once-or-twice-a-week flight to New York or San Francisco, for example, few people (flying for work) will choose that over getting a huge selection of flights from YYZ.

YXU has some more flights (including connections to YYZ) but then London is two hours plus away from any larger airport by car. Our situation is still much better, at least from my perspective.  (One hour is not much different than the time people on the east side of GTA need to get to the airport.)
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RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF - by tomh009 - 07-21-2015, 10:44 AM

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