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Dorval is the closest city to the airport, so I imagine a lot of employees live there.
It's always listed as the "Montreal" airport, but it's actually in Dorval. Lots of West Islanders work at the airport, I went to high school with some of them. If I talk to an agent or buy something at Tim Hortons, there's a real good chance they'll sound like me when they speak English.
It's always listed as the "Montreal" airport, but it's actually in Dorval. Lots of West Islanders work at the airport, I went to high school with some of them. If I talk to an agent or buy something at Tim Hortons, there's a real good chance they'll sound like me when they speak English.
Just curious - do the locals still refer to the airport as Dorval? Kind of similar to Parisians calling CDG Airport "Roissy" referring to its locale. Or to folks in Sao Paolo, Brazil, calling its Gualruhos international airport Cumbica.
No, I speak English like a native English speaker from the West Island, and so do my peers at the airport. My accent is "Quebecker", but not in the Francophone sense of the word.
Just curious - do the locals still refer to the airport as Dorval? Kind of similar to Parisians calling CDG Airport "Roissy" referring to its locale. Or to folks in Sao Paolo, Brazil, calling its Gualruhos international airport Cumbica.
People either say Dorval or just «*the airport*» since Mirabel no longer has passenger flights and St-Hubert is tiny.
Just curious - do the locals still refer to the airport as Dorval?
yes, I always call it Dorval Airport
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Originally Posted by jambo101
I'll continue to call it Dorval Airport as its easier to say than Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
What a horrifying name. I have to vomit when I read it. I guess the purpose of this airport's official name is to remind people that heritage, inheritance & social background is everything and matters the most in Canada. Kids who are born in Canada have basically no chance to ever become a top politician if their parents weren't rich and famous politicians before them. In Canada, at birth it is already decided what people will become and what not because top postions are inherited and thus these places are all occupied. P. and Justin Trudeau are a disgrace for Canada. The Liberals, making the rich richer and setting monuments for themselves, paid by the poor...
And I just wonder, will in future also an airport be named after Justin Trudeau? I guess he aspires to become everything his father has been and this includes getting an airport name? How many infrastructure projects will be named after the Treasonous Trudeau Clan?
Nice to see jambo, that we finally agree on something, I certainly will never call the airport like that either.
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Originally Posted by barneyg
People either say Dorval or just «*the airport*» since Mirabel no longer has passenger flights and St-Hubert is tiny.
Unilingual francophones or unilingual anglophones working with the public at the airport? Not likely.
Very likely and reality. Not so much for unilingual francophones because there are barely any left on the West Island, but very much for unilingual anglos.
Dorval is listed a a commune à statut bilingue, which means no anglophone is required to speak French and may speak English-only all the time in public and all public services are in English. Dorval Airport itself is very anglo.
The Dorval municipality has no jurisdiction over the airport.
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