{"id":34,"date":"2006-07-29T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-07-29T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T02:34:00","slug":"expansion-of-cranbrook-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/expansion-of-cranbrook-airport.html","title":{"rendered":"Expansion of the Cranbrook Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Expansion of the Cranbrook Airport, which will soon be named the Canadian Rockies International Airport Runway Expansion, will be completed this winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Significant changes to the airport are currently underway to accommodate larger aircraft and more passengers. The runway will be extended to 8,000 feet to accommodate larger planes, including transcontinental and some European flights, and the terminal building will be expanded to 2,035 square metres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Other upgrades include a series of upgrades to the fuelling, baggage handling, and related operational areas. Of significant interest is the construction of a CBSA (Canada Customs and Immigrations) facility to ensure timely processing of passengers is available on demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">This is great news for those of you wanting to visit <\/span><a style=\"font-family: verdana;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocky-peak.com\/fernie.htm\">Fernie<\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-family: verdana;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocky-peak.com\/kimberley.htm\">Kimberley<\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"> for great skiing and snowboarding in the winter and fantastic golfing in the summer.  Calgary International airport is about 5 hours drive away from these resorts, so this airport expansion at Cranbrook will cut the travel time right down for most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Please contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocky-peak.com\/contact.htm\">rocky-peak Holidays<\/a> for vacations to these resorts and other resorts in the magnificent Canadian Rockies.<\/span><\/div>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Frocky-peak.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F07%2Fexpansion-of-cranbrook-airport.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expansion of the Cranbrook Airport, which will soon be named the Canadian Rockies International Airport Runway Expansion, will be completed this winter. Significant changes to the airport are currently underway to accommodate larger aircraft and more passengers. The runway will be extended to 8,000 feet to accommodate larger planes, including transcontinental and some European flights, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/expansion-of-cranbrook-airport.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expansion of the Cranbrook Airport<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}