Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ranks among the world’s most beautiful, according to a global poll.
Travellers’ votes were submitted to PrivateFly, a charter broker based in the U.K. that released the results of its survey Tuesday.
PrivateFly said it received 147 airport nominations, and chose the top 10 based on highest number of votes. Toronto’s island airport ranked seventh according to the poll.
Fans of the airport wrote about the convenience of travelling in or out of the city’s downtown core, while others praised the combination of skyscrapers and natural beauty they can see when landing at or leaving from the airport.
“The gleaming city skyline to your north, the vast blue sweep of the great Lake Ontario to the south, and lush green parkland of the island mixed with the boats in the harbor directly below you make this airport’s approach truly majestic,” one person wrote on PrivateFly’s website.
A statement from PortsToronto called the airport a “key international gateway for business travel and tourism.”
The airport offers flights to 20 destinations in Canada and the United States, and hosts 2.4 million passengers each year.
Billy Bishop was the only Canadian airport to crack the top 10, nestled between Gibraltar Airport in the British overseas territory of the same name and Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport on the Caribbean Island of Saba.
The top 10 are as follows:
1. Queenstown Airport, Frankton, New Zealand
2. McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada
3. Nice Cote D’Azur International Airport, Nice, France
4. Barra Airport, Isle of Barra, Scotland
5. Princess Juliana International Airport, Simpson Bay, St. Maarten
6. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba
Photo taken by Cees Timmers, tvc-advertising.com
7. Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Toronto
8. Gibraltar Airport, Gibraltar
9. London City Airport, London
10. Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa
Photos via PrivateFly.com and airport websites unless otherwise noted.
