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Originally Posted by big T
YMX is not happening. We're even getting light rail to the airport now (by 2027 per the good people in charge, so let's call it "before 2030"), so YUL it is for the next 4 decades, for better or worse.
YUL has 2 runways and terminals can be re-arranged somewhat. It will be way more expensive and painful than a clean sheet design (in YMX, presumably -- essentially a brownfield currently), and we'll be flying in and out of a permanent construction zone till the 2060s at least. We need to accept this and move on.
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Building up YMX (public transit, a new terminal, new de-icing facility, new parking facilities, etc) will be way more expensive than anything they do at YUL.
If they had chosen YMX as their go to international airport back in the 90s, different story. They didn't. So they're stuck with YUL for the foreseeable future.
Yes, YUL will be a construction site for the better part of the next 20 years. It's the price to pay for choosing the wrong airport, and thinking small until now.