Inside Montreal-Mirabel International Airport February 2009

This is a little video of the now unfortunatly abandonned Montreal-Mirabel Intl airport with pictures of before and after 2004. Included are also shots of inside the terminal and surroundings from february 18th 2009.

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[vexacon]

I remember when they built it, spent so money to build it, then everything went downhill! Just when Montreal was becoming a great hub of business, the weirdos of Quebec wanted to seperate, that's when everything fell apart! All of a sudden companies started moving their head offices out of Quebec and the airport traffic started going down! Montreal was not the hub anymore, it moved to Toronto! Mirabel became a sad statistic! Too bad!

[66alex6699]

Indeed, when you look at Pearson airport it is what Mirabel was supposed and planned to be... Mirable was actually built for a pretty good price of 300M$ in 1975, whach was actually 50M$ less than budgeted... I can only agree that quebec's attempts at separation is probably one of the main reasons why it failed...

[bhobbbhy]

comment que ta eu accès à l'intérieure de l'aéroport!

[66alex6699]

Je prenais des photos de l'hotel quand un agent aéroportuaire est venu me voir. Nous avons jasé un peu et il a dù voir la nostalgie des souvenirs dans mes yeux parce qu'il m'a proposé de venir faire une tournée dans le terminal avec lui, ils en font plusieurs par jour apparemment.

[66alex6699]

Ce fût agréable de constater que tout est en ordre pour un retour en service rapide si nécessaire. C'était plutot court, une dizaine de minutes, l'agent a été appellé pour quelque chose et nous avons dù arrêter.

[chepelatino]

2:50 je me demande quand était ce vol

[66alex6699]

non ymx nest plus controlee, je crois toutefois quil y a les services dun fss mais pas sur. le ba434 a 2:50 je crois que ca a ete place pour le tournage du film the terminal avec tom hanks alors que le terminal devait passer pour JFK puisque, evidemment il ny avait pas de vols vers les usa a mirabel, seulement de linternational.

[GabreXL]

@66alex6699 Quebec wanting to separate had nothing to do with Mirabel's demise. The airport flopped because there was no proper public transportation links to the island of Montreal. Airlines saw it as much more logical to serve Pierre Elliot Trudeau Intl since it's on the island and much closer to the downtown core.

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@emiratesA380NCL I slept overnight on my honeymoon in this terminal when the overseas flight was allegedly delayed to go to Greece and Israel September 1980.

Marriage August 31st/1980 Toronto Ontario Canada.

Upon return to Mirabel October 1980 my inlaws kept us waiting hours to pick us up and take us to our home at 72 Morrisson Ave. Town of Mount Royal, Quebec.

If I knew then what I know now would the course of history be different?

Why is this named Mirabel?

[agamemnon419]

@sonic2277 Why would they do that after spending a $ Billion dollars on Trudeau ! Expansion plans are even underway at Trudeau !

[ledufledufugopoly]

Merci pour ce video, faudrais que j'essaye d'avoir la permission pour faire un photoshoot la bas ca serais genial. Et merci encore pour la nostalgie.

[mrd2u2u2sucks]

Vivre la Quebec Libre!

[emiratesA380NCL]

did you have permission or did you just walk into the terminal?

[geff57730]

j aimerai avoir cette chance de pouvoir visiter des lieux en etat parfaits de conservation mais en france ce genre de choses n existe mlheuresement pas en tout cas superbe video

[intel909]

@66alex6699 Tu as eu vraiment de la chance de faire une petite visite guidée supervisé par un agent aéoroportuaire. J'ai vaguement vu l'intérieur il y a quelques années mais je trouvais agréable cet endroit. Et surtout, à souligner qu'il a été le lieu de prédilection pour les films d'Elvis Gratton. Aujourd'hui, Mirabel a une deuxième vie et malheureusement, elle n'aura jamais repris vie... :(

[italo36]

@66alex6699

You are right, as a quebecer I know for a fact that the separatist movement has lots do with big corporations moving to Toronto and slower growth in the Montreal area much to the benefit of Toronto but the politicians will not publicly admit to that. A move back to Mirabel is inevitable as the Montreal Dorval airport cannot handle all the traffic, especially the lack of infrastructure around the airport which was never built for this many flights and car traffic.

[langedwin]

It would be interesting to see what Montreal would be like today if the separatist movement didn't happen. Toronto would not be considered the economic capital of Canada.

I am sure Montreal today would be a city parallel to Paris, London and New York. It had the potential.

Mirabel would have been used at it's full capacity and it's Trudeau airport would become the "city" airport similar to the Billy Bishop airport in Toronto.

Sad.