The Greater Moncton Romeo LeBlanc International Airport is reporting 2018 was a great year – they even broke their previous record on passenger traffic.
President Bernard LeBlanc says they had 681,437 passengers through their facility last year – about 4,000 more than the previous record.
“The closest we had to that was in 2014 when there was a lot of mobile worker traffic out west, so it dipped after that, but we’ve since gained all of that, and all the traffic is actually now coming to our terminal building which is nice.”
LeBlanc says back in 2014, oil companies were chartering private flights for oilpatch workers to take them out West, but that practice has essentially ended, and so while he isn’t sure how many passengers still work out West, anyone who does is taking the regular airline flights there.
LeBlanc says they also set a record volume for international air cargo with 16 flights carrying close to one thousand metric tonnes of live lobster to China and Europe.
Planned key capital initiatives at YQM for 2019 include runway resurfacing, continued focus on carbon reduction and energy efficiency improvement projects such as apron floodlighting replacement and fleet replacement.
