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    • Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Celebrates 80 Years of Rich History as it Reaches Milestone Anniversary

    This weekend marked 80 years since the first commercial passenger flight landed at Toronto’s City Airport in 1939. Passengers and partners alike gathered at Billy Bishop Airport to reminisce and celebrate 80 years of rich history, hard work and success on the occasion of this milestone anniversary.
     
    On September 8, 1939, a charter flight carrying famed trumpet player and Conductor Tommy Dorsey and his swing-band arrived in Toronto for a two-day engagement at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). Since then, what is now known as Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ), has established itself as a world-class airport connecting more than 2.8 million passengers annually directly into the heart of downtown Toronto and beyond.
     
    To view a video retrospective of Billy Bishop Airport’s history, please click here.

    For more information on Billy Bishop Airport’s history, visit billybishopairport.com.


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    An Austin Airways aircraft parks in front of Terminal A at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport—then known as Toronto Island Airport—in 1969.

    Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (https://www.billybishopairport.com)
    Offering service to more than 20 cities in Canada and the U.S., with connection opportunities to more than 80 international destinations via our airlines’ networks, Billy Bishop Airport is an important international gateway and a key driver to Toronto’s economy, generating more than $470 million in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year and supporting 4,740 jobs, including 2,080 directly associated with the airport operations. Billy Bishop Airport is renowned for its unique travel experience, efficiency and customer service and has won a series of passenger-driven awards, including being named one of the top airports globally and in North America in both the Airports Council International’s (ACI) Airport Service Quality Awards and Skytrax World Airport Awards. Billy Bishop Airport has also been ranked as the fourth Best International Airport by Condé Nast Traveler and has ranked top ten on Private Fly’s list for Most Scenic Airport Approaches in the world for five consecutive years.
     
     
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    Sarah Sutton
    Manager, Communications and Government Relations
    PortsToronto
    Cell: (647) 298-0544
    E-mail: ssutton@portstoronto.com