The City of St. John’s is going to allow an exception to the St. John’s International Airport to resume operations at 5:00 tomorrow morning. Airport employees are permitted to travel to work prior to 5 a.m. .
Effective midnight tonight, taxis are permitted to resume operations.
State of Emergency UPDATE @stjohnsairport Re-Opening 5am Wednesday, Jan. 22
Taxi companies permitted to resume operations at midnight tonight.
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— City of St. John’s (@CityofStJohns) January 21, 2020
The city is asking passengers travelling to the airport to carpool or take a taxi if possible to reduce traffic on the roads.
A further update on the state of emergency will come this afternoon.
#BREAKING: Mayor Breen says they will make an exception in the SOE to allow taxis to travel to and from the airport when it’s ready to open at 5am tomorrow.
They are asking people to take cabs and double up to have as few vehicles on the roads as possible.@VOCMNEWS
— Ben Murphy (@BenMurphy590) January 21, 2020
Had a discussion this evening with @AirCanada who are adding capacity through tomorrow and on Thursday. approx. 1200 additional seats over Wednesday and Thursday from Toronto and Halifax into and out of @CityofStJohns @EconDevStJohns
— Mayor Danny Breen 🇨🇦 (@DannyBreenNL) January 21, 2020