After initially announcing that the Porter Airlines terminal in Saint-Hubert would be ready at the end of 2024, then pushing that deadline to summer 2025, YHU Infrastructure Partners is now postponing its opening until the end of the year 2025.
Once operational, Montreal Metropolitan Airport (MET) will welcome more than four million passengers on domestic Porter Airlines flights. The new passenger terminal will cover an area of 21,000 m² and include nine aircraft bridges.
The first postponement is explained by late decision-making regarding the choice of contractor for the work, explains Simon-Pierre Diamond, public relations officer for MET. It was ultimately Construction PCL which obtained the contract in the summer of 2023 to build the terminal, a project valued at $200 million.
Since then, supply problems with electronic equipment – essential parts – have forced the postponement of the opening date from summer 2025 to the end of the year, specifies MET.
According to the publicist, the building is currently 60 or 70% complete and should be completed by summer 2025. However, its commissioning will not take place until the end of 2025, once the Transport Canada inspection carried out and security personnel hired and trained.
Who is YHU Infrastructure Partners?
Infrastructure Partners YHU is the result of an alliance between Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and Porter Aviation Holdings Inc. (PAHI).
MAM joined KNIFE in July 2023 to ensure the development and operation of the terminal.
The environmental sustainability plan of MET
On December 16, 2024, Montreal Metropolitan Airport (MET) unveiled its 2025-2029 environmental plan, designed to harmonize, among other things, with the objectives of the City of Longueuil's Climate Plan, which aims for carbon neutrality by 2050 , and to make this airport a benchmark in sustainable environmental practices.
This five-year plan aims to reduce the carbon footprint through the adoption of a policy zero waste
and the implementation of tree planting programs.
Among the planned measures, the airport will monitor the quality of runoff water and air by installing its first measuring stations.
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Members of the Halte-Air Saint-Hubert Coalition demonstrated against the Saint-Hubert airport expansion project.
Photo : - / Ivanoh Demers
However, this plan does not convince the citizen group Coalition Halte-Air Saint-Hubert, which criticizes the absence of quantified objectives in the commitments of the MET and which accuses the airport of having presented a distorted balance sheet
regarding the assessment of CO emissions2 linked to its activities. The Coalition also points out that the plan does not seem to take into account the impact of the four million travelers expected upon opening.
