YYB - Jack Garland Airport is possibly the smallest airport I've ever been to. In case you are wondering, there are no direct flights from Chicago to North Bay. There are 2 options - connect in Toronto (which will get you into North Bay at 5pm at the earliest or latest since it's the only flight option for the day) or connect in Ottawa, which will get you into North Bay at 1pm at the earliest. I went with the Ottawa route and coincidentally was on the smallest plane I've ever been in with an airline I've never heard of - Bearskin. There were 2 pilots, one of them did the safety check in the cabin. As you can assume, there is no beverage service on the one hour flight. There were no other crew on the plane and no bathrooms.
Once I arrived at the airport, I did see that they had a restaurant and a car rental place (National). I've heard that the car rental place is usually sold out, so it's pretty tough to get a car last minute. It sounded like it was tough getting one even with a reservation. I walked outside expecting to see some cabs at the taxi stand, but no such luck. That's probably why there's a dedicated phone inside the airport to calls the cab company to have someone pick you up. The dedicated black taxi phone is located across from National car rental booth. The service was pretty quick, they had someone there within 5 minutes. read more