Montreal, Canada – It cheekily bills itself as “Montreal’s U.S. airport” and has even put up bilingual signs at its new passenger terminal to lure Quebec travellers.
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Plattsburgh International Airport, in New York State on Lake Champlain, is out to carve a niche for itself as a convenient facility offering cheap flights.
About an hour’s drive away is a key target market – the populous Montreal region.
The folks at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport aren’t quite panicking but they concede the upstart can do some damage.
Opened in June, Plattsburgh airport boasts a gleaming new terminal done up in mock-Adirondack-lodge style and offering low-cost regional and sun-destination flights.