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People who travel along the Kitchener-Waterloo-Toronto corridor may soon see an alternative to the often-chaotic commute on the highway.

Greater Toronto Airways, which initiated air service between downtown Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake last September with flights that take roughly 12 minutes — about the same amount of time it takes to transfer from the TTC to a GO train at Union Station — plans to launch a new route that will connect the two ends of Canada’s largest tech corridor.

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Its first flight, with an eight-seat multi-engine aircraft, is expected to happen in early June. It will take 18 minutes to fly the 44 nautical miles, or 81 kilometres, between Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport and Region of Waterloo International Airport in Breslau (about a 20-minute drive from the K-W area).

“There’s a big population of people going back and forth,” says GTA’s president and chief executive Chris Nowrouzi. “I think there’s a lot of people wasting a lot of time and a lot of corporations wasting a lot of money. I think it’s a no brainer.”