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No Toronto in the Airport list?

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:38 pm
by slipstream
Hi all. I'm new here and when I went to the Main Airports list under Canada, there is no Toronto. I did a search for Toronto, CYYZ, and CYTZ and did not find an answer. Am I missing something here or is there no Toronto? Thanks, eh.

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:43 pm
by FsNovice
Are you sure Toronto Airport is called as such. it may have another name. Quite often the main airport for a place is not actually in the city it denotes. For example Bristol Airport is in somerset, not Bristol, in some weird villiage

EDIT: i stand corrected, there is such an airport as you were looking for. then what you need to do is submit the airport to the database if it doesnt exist.

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:10 pm
by slipstream
FSNovice, thanks for the quick reply. I've added it to the airports under CYYZ. Thanks, again.

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:53 pm
by cmdrnmartin
Don't bother adding it, go to L, it's called Lester B Pearson. ;)

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:16 am
by Miikoyan
Yep, the main airport of Toronto is called Toronto Pearson International.

How could konny miss it if its the busiest and the largest airport in Canada?

P.S The code of Toronto Pearson is CYYZ.

Hope that helps,
Mike Miikoyan,
American Harmony.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:23 am
by Safari Air
As justin said above
go to L, it's called Lester B Pearson
It's on there but not under T.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:35 am
by CAPFlyer
Miikoyan wrote:Yep, the main airport of Toronto is called Toronto Pearson International.
Maybe colloquially, but if you look at the NAV Canada and Jeppessen charts, it's listed as "Lester B. Pearson International" as the name and "Toronto" as the location. In fact, NAV Canada's charts don't even show it's in Toronto, only that it's Lester B Pearson International. It also doesn't mention that either of the main Montreal airports (Dorval or Trudeau) are in Montreal.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:39 am
by Miikoyan
Haha I never knew that, thanks for letting me know,

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:48 am
by CAPFlyer
It's one of those annoying things about "airside" versus "landside" that a lot of people don't understand.

When I speak of "airside" I mean people who work for the airline, whether it be on the ramp; in the cockpit or cabin; or the operations, dispatch, or ticketing centers. "Landside" refers to all passengers and non-airline industry people who only see what's on their ticket and/or on the departure/arrival screens in the airport or online.

Airside, we see some wierd things go on around airport names and sometimes it makes our lives miserable because charts get moved and renamed almost monthly, so we have to go in and update our charts to keep them current. This also causes computer system updates as well that for the IT people can be just as annoying when the automatic updating system inevitibly doesn't automatically update.

Some examples of major airports that don't have their location in them off the top of my head-

Lester B. Pearson International
General Edward Lawrence Logan International
John F. Kennedy International
La Guardia

These are all "well known" airports, but most people put the airport city in there somewhere. In reality, they officialy don't have the city in the name.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:33 am
by Safari Air
correct me if i'm wrong but Airside LFPG is
Roissy Charles de Gaulle. It's not in Paris, it's in Roissy

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:12 pm
by CAPFlyer
Yes, it's Roissy-Charles De Gaulle. Roissy is actually the north complex and almost a completely separate airport except it's connected to De Gaulle, so they consider it to be a single airport.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 9&t=k&om=1

Looking at the image, Terminal 1, FedEx, and the north runways are Roissy. Terminal 2, the south runways and South Cargo are De Gaulle. Together they make Roissy-Charles De Gaulle.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:19 pm
by Safari Air
thought so, because the same turn off on the French Autoroute as CDG airport is sign posted Roissy. (and i have stayed in the Hotel B&B Roissy)