March 26, 2008
Fort McMurray Airport expansion plans underway
Earlier this month, plans were finalized for a $100-million expansion of the Fort McMurray Airport.
The project will triple the size of the current facility.
Fort McMurray’s airport was originally designed to handle 70,000 passengers annually, but it well exceeds that total.
Today, the airport handles 560,000 people and 70,000 takeoffs and landings a year on its single runway, which is eight times the amount of traffic the airport was designed to handle.
This makes the airport the single busiest airstrip of any small or medium-sized city in Canada.
The expansion plan includes a second runway, as well as a new terminal, more gates, shops and an increase in space to 8,000 square metres from 2,600 square metres.
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