You couldn't get the glide path for jets to land on 24. There are too many towers on the approach, which would effectively be over the city.
Even a Cessna has to fly a slightly weird circuit in order not to crash into the Scotia tower. When the wind is from a certain direction, even that is fun
As a fairly well rounded stakeholder...
I live in sight of the airport, I fly Porter for business , I sail from a local yacht club and fly as a private pilot from CYTZ, I'm against the expansion of the runway .
Its not a noise thing its more of a preserving GA at the airport thing.
I've only just become a member of the pilot community and already I'm scared for its future.
GA is being squeezed out of City, buttonville is about to close and Oshawa's future is far from certain.