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The 1963 airside terminal with an Air Canada DC-9-30 at a jet bridge gate (1979) Transport Canada selected the current site for Edmonton International Airport, on the opposite side of the city from the military airport at RCAF Station Namao, and purchased over 28 km 2 (7,000 acres) of land.
Edmonton Airports operates the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and the Edmonton/Villeneuve Airport. [4] The EIA is owned by Transport Canada, leased by Edmonton Airports, and part of the National Airports System. [5] It includes a planned inland port logistics support facility in support of the Port Alberta initiative. [6]
Transport in Edmonton is fairly typical for a Canadian city of its size, involving air, rail, road and public transit. With very few natural barriers to growth and largely flat to gently rolling terrain bisected by a deep river valley, the city of Edmonton has expanded to cover an area of nearly 768 km 2 (297 sq mi), of which only two-thirds is built-up, while the metropolitan area covers ...
[18] [19] The service was then solely funded by the City of Edmonton until May 2018 when joint funding was announced by Leduc County, the City of Leduc, the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton International Airport as part of an agreement referred to as the "Airport Accord". [20] Express service only
As defined by Transport Canada, an international airport: . means any airport designated by the Contracting State, in whose territory it is situated, as an airport of entry and departure for international commercial air traffic, where the formalities incident to customs, immigration, public health, animal and plant quarantine and similar procedures are carried out.
This is a list of airports that serve the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta, Canada. [1] [2] Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System. [3] Communities in parentheses indicates the airport is not in a community. Location of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta
Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), (IATA: YXD, ICAO: CYXD) was an airport within the city of Edmonton, in the Canadian province of Alberta. It was bordered by Yellowhead Trail to the north, Kingsway to the south, 121 Street to the west, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Jefferson armouries to the east.
Terminal building in 2024. The closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport in 2013 stimulated expansion of the Villeneuve Airport as a partial replacement. Its land base grew from 1,400 to 1,555 acres (5.67 to 6.29 km 2), the instrument landing system was upgraded, the number of hangars increased, and one runway was extended to 5,001 ft (1,524 m). [1]