Montreal's Trudeau airport to undergo $10B transformation over next decade

Pierre Saint-Arnaud · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 16, 2025 2:19 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Montreal's Trudeau International Airport and surrounding country is acceptable to acquisition a $10-billion translation implicit the adjacent decade. 

The airdrome authorization for the greater Montreal area, Aéroports de Montréal (ADM), says it has negotiated a $1-billion indebtedness from the Canada Infrastructure Bank to enactment its program for the city's main aerial hub.

ADM says renovations volition summation capableness to grip the expected emergence successful rider measurement to 28 cardinal by 2028 and up to 35 cardinal by 2035. In 2024, rider measurement was a small implicit 22 million.

"YUL's improvement program is extensive, but indispensable to guarantee that our planetary airdrome tin proceed to accommodate increasing rider numbers and conscionable the expectations and needs of its users," ADM CEO Yves Beauchamp said successful a quality release.

The authorization says the airport's question volumes person surpassed pre-pandemic levels and described its maturation arsenic the highest of immoderate ample Canadian airport.

Work includes a implicit reconfiguration of the roadworthy web starring to the airdrome to trim traffic, and the demolition of the multi-level parking store for a new, larger parking facility.

The airdrome authorization besides plans to physique a caller gathering that volition link the terminal to the aboriginal light-rail station, expected to beryllium operational by 2027.

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ADM says different upgrades see much gates and a caller outer aerial span to link to the terminal.

Beauchamp says the airdrome is massively scaling up its infrastructure investments to conscionable anticipated demand.

"About 2 years ago, we were spending astir $230 cardinal per twelvemonth connected infrastructure. This year, we should bash $850 million," helium said. "And adjacent year, we should scope a billion, our cruising velocity for the adjacent years," arsenic they transportation retired each the projects until 2035.

Macky Tall, the seat of the infrastructure bank's committee of directors, said the indebtedness would "create a foundation, a buffer" to let the airdrome to determination guardant with its investments.

He declined to uncover the involvement complaint of the loan, but said it was "competitive."

Beauchamp said the airdrome authorization is not receiving immoderate subsidies, and volition concern the improvements itself done loans and its ain revenues, which see airdrome betterment fees paid by travellers.

The infrastructure slope said successful a quality merchandise that the investments and added rider measurement volition adhd astir $3.7 cardinal successful GDP by 2028, and volition make thousands of caller jobs.