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Porter Airlines Inc.’s chief executive Robert Deluce says he hasn’t given up on hopes to fly jet airplanes out of Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport.

Deluce, who was formally inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame on Thursday, said the company hasn’t walked away from its conditional order of 30 CSeries jets from Bombardier Inc. Deposits for the aircraft are still in place, despite the fact that the government closed the door to allowing jets to fly from the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport more than two years ago.

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“We continue to be of the view that it is not really a question of if, it’s a question of when,” Deluce said in an interview with the Financial Post.

“I think there is significant growth opportunity available to us. Whether that comes with additional regional routes, or whether a second fleet type gives us the longer-range destinations that come with flying an airplane like the CSeries, that will play out in due course.”