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Originally Posted by mylesmalley
But we're throwing more good money after bad if we continue to spend money to enhance facilities like the Miramichi Airport. They're on a campaign right now to get their runway extended to 10,000 ft so that they can become an air-cargo hub.
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Yeah that is just silly, Moncton is the hub for air cargo in NB, no sense on them making a campaign to gather money for this.
Miramichi with all the land available for expantion should focus on a business park with air related business (testing facility or maintenance or manufacturing...) They are too close to Moncton to dream about any scheduled flight.
Bathurst will remain the passenger airport or the north, With currents plans of terminal and runway expantion to desserve the new generation of jazz planes, and possible additional flights.
Charlo should market itself as a training facility. There is so little air traffic in that area that the students of a flight school would be less likely to create near-misses with other planes (but would have to watch out for the mountains). I know it is used by the DND for parachuting exercises and is host for what is becoming a bi-annual snowbirds show (they are there this wednesday with other "Royal" air force planes)