Porter Airlines building two new hangars at Ottawa airport to ‘maintain’ growing fleet’

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Porter Airways is constructing two new hangars on the Ottawa Worldwide Airport with the primary part of building anticipated to be accomplished by the top of subsequent 12 months.

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The airline stated Tuesday the second part of the hangar venture is slated to be performed inside the first few months of 2024. The 2 hangars will add greater than 150,000 sq. ft in house for Porter to “preserve its rising fleet.”

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The venture is anticipated to value greater than $65 million between Porter and the airport authority, the corporate stated in its launch, and creates house for indoor parking for as much as eight plane plus repair-work areas for steel and composite plane components, cabin gear, wheels and batteries.

The airport authority is constructing a $15-million taxiway to “accommodate Porter’s hangar growth plans, in addition to federal authorities wants, and presumably different industrial aviation-related growth,” in keeping with a media launch from Porter. That’s along with “associated infrastructure” to help the hangars and “future alternatives on this part of the airport.”

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The corporate plans to rent 200 staff on the hangars, together with 160 plane upkeep engineers and openings for store technicians, shops clerks and administrative help.

“Ottawa has been a crucial location for Porter all through our historical past and the multi-million greenback amenities we’re constructing to take care of plane right here is simply the most recent instance of our need to meaningfully spend money on Canada’s Capital Area,” stated Michael Deluce, Porter’s CEO, within the launch.

“We anticipate our presence in Ottawa will develop within the coming years, supported by the upkeep base and future plane deliveries that give us the flexibility to think about new routes.”