Business View-Oct 2023

244 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 cargo flights a day with FedEx and Skyline.” “We are home to the water bomber base for Ontario with the Ministry of Natural Resources. We are also fortunate to have Sault College, which is a flight training school here in Sault Ste. Marie and a private flight training school, Sault Academy of Flight.” “We have a major MRO, maintenance repair operation, with JD Aero and they do a lot of work for many airlines including Horizon, WestJet, and Porter. We also have a second FBO on site, Executive Aviation who does fueling with World Fuels. We redid our main runway in 2001 and we redid our secondary runway in 2021. We have also done three expansions to our terminal to meet our growth since we took over when we were about 140,000 and then went up to about 215,000 passengers.” Covid had a major effect on air travel everywhere, but it seems Canada is bouncing back, albeit slowly. Before Covid Sault Ste. Marie saw some 210,000 passengers per year and somewhere