The #1 airport, a “Jewel in the Wilderness”
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Regional benefit |
The Elliot Lake Airport serves the entire region from Thessalon to Espanola but Elliot Lake incurs all the cost of operation without subsidy. |
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Operation
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The airport is staffed Mon- Pilots are able to activate and change the intensity of the airfield lighting by clicking their microphone on our frequency. This allows any aircraft to use our airport at night without us being there, yet save energy costs. A voice activated recorder and voice clock records aircraft arrivals and departures during unstaffed times. Pilots are encouraged to state their last point of departure, and next point of arrival, with landing and departure times. The airport is transformed into a drag race for most of 4 days a year in July. During this time the airport cannot accept any airplanes or helicopters. |
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Weather |
(1) The Elliot Lake Airport has been reporting weather since 1976 (2) Large bodies of water significantly influences weather. (ie Great Lakes) The surrounding weather stations of Gore Bay, Sault Ste Marie and Wawa, by being positioned on the shore of the Great Lakes, can be affected by a micro climate of their own. The Elliot Lake Airport reports weather that is inland and north of Lake Huron and 600 feet higher in elevation. (3) This data is being used by climatologist's, forecasters, pilots, and the weather channel. This data is also used for insurance claims where weather is involved, for statistical data, and projects where changes in weather have an influence on the other data. |
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Aircraft movements |
In 2009, the airport reported 6698 aircraft movements, which is greater than any year in the past. |
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Fuel sales |
The airport sells 100LL and Jet A1 fuels, Jet being the primary. The airport is equipped to do low and high pressure fuelling. In the fall of 2010 a jet refueller truck will enhance airport services. The truck has been refurbished to meet the needs of the MNR and Air Bravo. |
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Employment |
The airport is staffed with one full time and one part time employee. The staff performs all duties related to the airport from bush cutting and plowing to janitorial and administrative duties. |
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Regular Users |
Air Bravo employs 27 locally. Air Bravo is an air carrier which specializes in medevac and charter flights. They have a maintenance facility which will also repair other than company aircraft. Twenty one miners fly from the airport for work at Red Lake. This is on a rotational schedule every two week using Dash 8 aircraft. Dynamex employs 3 drivers and uses the airport to fly bags and freight every morning and night. Dr.Fenton an ear/nose/throat specialist flies in each Wednesday night to meet the needs of residents on Thursdays. Hope Air transports eligible patients to medical facilities as required.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
FLY TO WHERE YOU ARE APPRECIATED.
SCHEDULED PASSENGER FIGHTS?
That is a common question.
This airport had scheduled passenger flights up to Aug 2002.
For an airline to survive, there has to be enough people for whom time is more important than money. Aviation is very expensive. The price of airfare cannot compete with other modes of transportation, unless you have a lot of passengers on each flight. The fare is dictated by the average passenger load......how many people are sharing all the expenses of operating the airline. With high volume the price can be low, however, if you don’t have volume the price will be much higher per seat, prompting people to drive to the nearest hub that has the best price.
In this region we lack industry which doesn’t mind paying extra to save time. Reality is that we have a lot of residents that time is not an issue and would prefer saving money.
With Sudbury being 2 hrs away, and Toronto 6 hrs away, driving is deemed more convenient by most people. These hubs although far, are really too close.
.......at Elliot Lake, we appreciate your business....