BMWorld and AmSim have recently released their rendition of Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (CYUL) for Microsoft Flight Simulator, serving greater Montréal and eastern Ontario with a yearly average of 16 million passengers.

It was opened in 1941 to replace Saint-Hubert Airport  - Montréal’s former main airport -considered inadequately small for the city’s size and needs, on a former race track known for good weather throughout the year, rarely fogging up.

In the 70s, the government made huge plans to replace it with a new, much larger airport - Montréal Mirabel -, which would become the largest airport in the world when built in terms of total land area and fully expansible if there was ever a need to add a new runway or terminals. On the other hand, YUL was repurposed as a domestic airport during that period, while Mirabel’s expected traffic figures never came to fruition, eventually leading to its partial shutdown in the early 2000s (it has ceased passenger operations).

During Mirabel’s final commercial breaths, Montréal-Trudeau saw the resumption of its international traffic in 1997 and charter flights in 2004, while Mirabel saw nothing but the demolition of its passenger terminal in the last 20 years. The maintenance costs were far too high for something not in use, leading the administration to adopt such an extreme measure.

It’s a hub for Air Canada (Barcelona, Bogotá, Brussels, Calgary, Casablanca, Delhi, Denver, Edmonton, Fort-de-France, Frankfurt, Geneva, Halifax, Houston–Intercontinental, Lisbon, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Lyon, Mexico City, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pointe-à-Pitre, Providenciales, Rome–Fiumicino, San Francisco, San José de Costa Rica–Juan Santamaría, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Tampa, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Toulouse, Vancouver, Winnipeg), Air Transat (Cancún, Cayo Coco, Fort Lauderdale, Holguín, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Málaga, Marseille, Miami, Montego Bay, Orlando, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Port-au-Prince, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Samaná, Santa Clara, Toronto–Pearson, Varadero), and OWG (Cayo Coco, Holguín, Santa Clara, Varadero), flying passengers all over the globe. 

The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with a detailed terminal area, animated jetways, custom ground markings, high-resolution texturing, landside buildings, custom runway guard lights, parallax windows, and more.

It’s available on OrbxDirect for roughly $18.66, requiring at least 2.73 GB of free hard disk space to install.

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