CZBB Boundry Bay Airport - About Friggen time!!

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:36 pm

Looks like their finally going to develop Bounday Bay Airport, IMHO this should have been done a decade ago. This airport has so much potential that it hasnt ever relized. Check out there master plan lets hope they follow through.

http://www.czbb.com/plan.htm

SkyWolfe · Post by **SkyWolfe** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:14 pm

Yeah - that'll be nice

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:16 pm

vroom vroom airplanes

altiplano · Post by **altiplano** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:40 pm

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:30 pm

altiplano wrote:I wonder how they'll explain it to the people in nearby neighbourhoods who complain that they moved in next to an airport...

Idiots

ROFL.. I wonder how long till you can only land between 11am and 3pm local due to noise abatement(sp)

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:50 am

About time eh......the schools right now look quite shabby compared to anywhere in the rest of the world... in order for the airport to have a more international image they gotta expand their flight schools...train more pilots especially pilots from india and china on a larger scale, which means campus buildings, dorms, cafeterias..and real classrooms...

mikegtzg · Post by **mikegtzg** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:01 am

But that little restaurant there has good cheap food. If all that happens the prices will go up.

BlueSkies12 · Post by **BlueSkies12** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:31 am

If you want good cheap food i guess you'll just have to go to Chilliwack. Try the pie. But watch out for the weekend warriors who have no idea how to enter a circuit...

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:31 am

This has been in the works since prior to Alpha Aviations take over of the BBAC. Good to see them moving ahead with plans, but I still think it will be a long while before anything comes to fruition.

Did I not hear that they lost the grant to extend the runways?

I wouldn't count on anything too soon. Maybe by 2010 we'll see some development

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:36 pm

I used to work at the YVRAA and worked partly on the strategic plan for hte Vanc. Intl. airport. YVRAA at that time (5 years ago) was fully counting on the fact that ZBB would become a major hub for regionals once YVR reached capacity with long haul. Not the greatest geographic location, but nonetheless the solution that YVR is looking for long term. Look to YVR to be pushing for the ZBB runway extensions in the future and maybe some DH8 type service in 15 or 20 yrs or so.

Then all those people who moved into the vicinity of the airport will really be crying foul!!!

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:37 pm

Just watch prices go through the roof. Everyone with a small airplane will move out. That could be good and it could be bad. Depends.

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:35 pm

that is a possibility, for sure. But I think ZBB is, or I should say will be well enough eqquipped to handle both GA and small regionals. Having said that, if ZBB does start to price out the little guy, we are lucky in the lower mainland to have many GA airports besides ZBB. YPK, YNJ and YXX could all easily handle much more GA activity.[/i]

337 · Post by **337** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:51 pm

The Skyway restaurant is awesome... Rudy could work on his customer service skills though. He used to greet me with .."hey chubby, gonna have a cheeseburger today...".

I suppose I was never too offended though because I alwas did get the burger.

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:31 pm

It would appear that since Alpha Aviation took over the airport the rental car companies will not deliver a car to the airport for a one day rental. Used to be the rental car company would drop the car, keys, and papers to the airport manager or gas guy, you would fly in and see the manager or gas guy to sign the papers and get the keys and drive away. Maybe it is a coincidence but it is annoying not being able to fly in and have a rental car waiting for a day trip.

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:32 pm

And if I could complain about something else

it would be their poor web page design. Not Firefox friendly!! rant over

flynfiddle · Post by **flynfiddle** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:57 am

Ok people let's talk baby steps here first, how about a water fountain? A fella could dry up and blow away in that place if you didn't have $1.25 to buy a bottle of water.

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:45 am

that's what happens when your main terminal is modular trailers. they gotta at least do something about that terminal.