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Toronto Port Authority (TPA) will be welcoming the public to its head office, the Toronto Harbor Commission building, at 60 Harbour Street on Saturday, May 25 for the 14th annual Doors Open.

In light of the potential technical ramifications of the Porter proposal to extend the existing BBTCA 8/26 runway by a total of 168 metres at each end, the TPA has deferred its May 2012 project to undertake subsurface lakefilling in the Marine Exclusion Zone (MEZ) just east of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport pending the assessment of runway extensions that has been requested by the City of Toronto.

Toronto Port Authority Injunction Protects Freedom of Expression and the Rights of Airport Users

Work on the underground pedestrian walkway that will link Toronto to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is underway. Take a walk through the mud and mess of one of the 185 metre ancillary tunnels, which will eventually be filled with concrete to support the main pedestrian passageway. The project is expected to be completed in Spring 2014

The Skytrax World Airport Awards awarded BBTCA the tenth Best Airport in the World in the Under 5 Million Passenger category

Statistical breakdown on the flight movements at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport for 2012

‘Chip', one of the two tunnel boring machines being used to construct the pedestrian walkway to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, has completed one of the drift tunnels and broken through the tunnel’s shaft wall on Toronto Island.

‘Chip', one of the two tunnel boring machines being used to construct the pedestrian walkway to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, has been lowered into the tunnel shaft.

On December 11, 2012 an informational feature on Canada's airport's appeared in the Globe and Mail. Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport gets a mention.

‘Pedestrian Tunnel to Enhance Airport’s Remarkable Success’
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) is a major economic engine for the Greater Toronto Area, generating $1.9 billion in annual economic output and 5,700 jobs, which includes 1,700 directly associated with the airport.

Starting in spring 2013, new Canadian passports will feature electronic chip technology that will be accepted at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. 

An annual survey to be released Monday August 27 by the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) and conducted by Ipsos Reid reveals that two thirds (69 per cent) of Torontonians ‘agree’ that the airport is an ‘economic engine of the city’.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) is bringing back its highly anticipated free movie festival, Sail-In Cinema, to the city’s waterfront. For three nights in August, Canada’s Sugar Beach will be transformed into an outdoor theatre where movie fans can watch nautical-themed movies on a two-sided screen anchored to a barge on Lake Ontario.

On June 14, 2012, the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) hosted a public meeting at the Radisson Admiral Hotel to discuss a proposal to distribute lakefill under the surface of Lake Ontario just east of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (BBTCA).

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) released its 2011 financials today, reporting net income of $13.9 million, a 90% increase over fiscal 2010. This sets a new record for profitability since TPA was created in 1999, and represents the fourth consecutive year of profitable growth. The strong financial results are driven not only from the continued success of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, but also from the other operations of the Port Authority.

The Toronto Port Authority Board and the City of Toronto reached an agreement last summer, passed by City Council on July 12, 2011, that will see the City of Toronto put a new water main and replacement sewage mains in the pedestrian tunnel that the TPA is building to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. This City Council-approved agreement specifically included provisions to improve traffic management on Eireann Quay and a three year lease of the Canada Malting site to the TPA for such purposes.

Joined by the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, the Hon. James Flaherty, Minister of Finance and Minister Responsible for the GTA, and M.P. for Whitby-Oshawa and His Worship Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, Toronto Port Authority Chairman Mark McQueen today announced the start of construction of the Port Authority's pedestrian tunnel to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

The Toronto Port Authority today announced the success of its first charitable sponsorship of 2012, the Reel Artists Film Festival.

The Harbourfront Community Centre (HCC) is expanding its arts leadership program, Room 13 Toronto, to youth aged 13-17 thanks to $30,000 in new funding provided by the Toronto Port Authority.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) today announced that it has implemented a key recommendation outlined in the 2010 Jacobs Consultancy Report with the installation of a state-of-the-art aircraft noise barrier at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

Toronto (December 29, 2011) – The Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, which is owned and operated by the Toronto Port Authority, is expected to surpass its estimate of 1.5 million passengers for 2011, an increase of 37 per cent over 2010, and double the number of passengers it served in 2009.

TPA and Porter Aviation Holdings Inc. are co-hosting three afternoons of carolling on December 19-21 at the island side Airport Terminal of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) has unveiled several Improvements at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport that respond to the needs of airport users and increased activity at the airport

The Toronto Port Authority announced today that ACL, a United Kingdom-based company specializing in airport slot allocation, has awarded  Porter Airlines the 16 remaining slots at Billy Bishop Airport for 2012.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) closed out 2010 with net income of $7.1 million, a five-fold increase over 2009, representing the third year in a row that it has operated at a profit, President and CEO Geoffrey A. Wilson said today, at the TPA’s Annual Meeting.

With summer coming to an end and airport activity peaking at more than 11,000 movements, the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport saw an overall reduction in noise complaints in August to just 16 total complaints.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Meeting of the Toronto Port Authority will be held at the Harbourfront Centre in the “Brigantine Room”, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario on Friday, September 16, 2011, commencing at 9:30 a.m. This meeting is open to the public.

The Toronto Port Authority and Media Monkey Productions Inc. announced today that they have won top in their category for ‘Best History/Biography (non broadcast)’ for their short film Billy Bishop: Canadian Maverick at the prestigious 2011 Telly Awards in New York.

The Toronto Port Authority today released a Request for Construction Services on MERX, Canada’s leading electronic-tendering service, to design and build an acoustic noise barrier to mitigate airport ground noise at the Billy Bishop Airport.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) received a total of 57 complaints last month, only five (5) of which were related to the record 2,357 commercial flights coming into and leaving Billy Bishop Airport in June.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) closed out 2010 with net income of $7.1 million, a five-fold increase over 2009.

Toronto (April 4, 2011) –The TPA today announced that after taking into consideration the Environmental Assessment Screening Report and comments emanating from public participation in its review of the Environmental Assessment (EA).

TPA requests draft clarification regulation supporting pedestrian tunnel

On January 29, 2010, the TPA advised that it had initiated a process that will bring forward Public-Private Partnership (P3) proposals to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a pedestrian tunnel from the mainland to the Billy Bishop Airport under the Western Gap of the Toronto harbour.

Reminder: Jan 12 is next EA meeting

In a year end review, the Toronto Port Authority indicated that it expected to hit its estimate of 1.2 million passengers for 2010, noting that it had successfully managed the 48 per cent increase in use over 2009, while at the same time establishing new relationships with community groups on the waterfront.

On November 30, TPA staff met with members of the public at the Radisson Hotel to discuss the draft Environmental Assessment on the Proposed Pedestrian Tunnel. These are the answers to the questions posed at that meeting.

The Toronto Port Authority released a draft report prepared by independent environmental and engineering consultants, Dillon Consulting Limited, which concluded that the construction and operation of the proposed pedestrian tunnel would result in no permanent significant environmental effects.

Toronto Port Authority Fast Facts

Toronto Port Authority provides update regarding proposed pedestrian tunnel to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport terminal

TPA 2010 Annual General Meeting Question & Answer Period Summary Report

Initiatives announced at 2010 Annual Meeting include Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Consultative Committee and environmental sustainability strategy

Proposed Pedestrian/Services Tunnel and Perimeter Road Project.

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The Board of Directors of the Toronto Port Authority ("TPA") initiated a process that will bring forward Public-Private Partnership ("P3") proposals to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a pedestrian tunnel connecting to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ("BBTCA") under the Western Gap of the Toronto harbour.