Porter to provide passenger flights out of Montreal's Saint-Hubert Airport

Porter Airlines is planning to develop a new terminal at the Montreal-area Saint-Hubert Airport, with a goal of serving more than 4 million passengers per year.

Porter Airlines is planning to develop a new terminal at the Montreal-area Saint-Hubert Airport, with a goal of serving more than 4 million passengers per year.

The airline carrier made the announcement Monday morning at a news conference at the South Shore Longueuil airport, saying it will now serve two airports in the Montreal area: Trudeau International (YUL) and St-Hubert (YHU).

Porter is planning more than 10 possible routes across Canada, including connections to its two hubs in Toronto.

The nine-gate, 21,000 square-metre terminal will include state-of-the-art passenger and baggage processing, as well as food and beverage concessions and retail vendors.

Aircraft flying out of the terminal would include the 78-seat De Havilland Dash 8-400 and the 132-seat Embraer E195-E2.

The project is expected to create more than 500 permanent jobs, including full-time positions within terminal and airline operations, and the establishment of a new pilot and flight attendant crew base.

The plan follows a similar model to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport, which now serves 3 million passengers every year and generates $3 billion of annual economic impact.