Dogfight: Inside the decades-long battle over Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport

Someone with a healthy streak for mischief must have come up with the idea to rename the airport on Toronto Island after Billy Bishop.

The 2009 decision to link the legendary First World War flying ace to the airport was meant to be a feel-good story: Bishop once ran a flight service for wealthy Torontonians from the island to Ontario cottage country, and the new name was a popular choice.

...Karl Moore, a McGill University business professor and aviation expert, says he sympathizes with Air Canada, but also believes Deluce deserves credit for the “chutzpah he showed by making a success of an airport everyone else had left to languish.”

Read full article: Financial Post, 22 January, 2016