The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that plans to expand the runway at Billy Bishop Airport on the Toronto Islands to accommodate jets could involve adding up to 900 metres of extended land into Lake Ontario, much more than proposed when the idea was last quashed a decade ago. The Globe's Jeff Gray writes that the head of the Toronto Port Authority (TPA), the federal agency that oversees the facility says it can be done with minimal impacts on the city's inner harbour and its plans for high-rise housing nearby. Roelof-Jan Steenstra, the TPA's chief executive officer, said draft plans will not be finished for months, and he said they will be put forward for consultations. The changes must also be approved by the federal government and Transport Canada safety regulators. The proposed additional runway length itself is 600 metres, far more than the 442 metres floated with jet-expansion plans a decade ago. Mr. Streenstra says Billy Bishop hopes to welcome smaller single-aisle jets such as the Embraer E195 E-2 and the Airbus A220. The TPA says they would be quieter and less polluting than the current 78-seater De Havilland Dash-8 400 turboprops now operated by Porter Airlines and Air Canada out of Billy Bishop.