Montreal is growing in all directions, including that one. However Montreal is an island and off-island links are the weak spot. For those of us on the southern shores, Mirabel represents two river crossings (bottlenecks). Dorval is only one crossing for any off-island folks, and for on-island folks, it is NO river crossing, as it's on-island. Add to the misery the fact that they never completed proper rail or road links to the damned place. I can get to YUL in 1 h 15 min. It takes me 2 hrs to YMX. Except in the Cherokee ;-) Mike Gammon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Wright" <jwright@halcyon.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Speaking of Montreal... > Is there any chance that economic development from Montreal will push out to > Mirabel and, ulimately, make it a viable location? That's one of the factors > that led to IAD's success. Originally a ghost town, as Northern Virginia > grew up around Dulles, Dulles eventually became a more convenient location > than National for a lot of folks. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Gammon" <jmgammon@sympatico.ca> > To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: Speaking of Montreal... > > > > I bet in the end YMX ends up the largest uncontrolled airfield in > Canada... >