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Calgary International is the busiest airport in Alberta and the fourth-busiest in Canada by passenger traffic, as the region's petroleum and tourism industries (and its proximity to Banff National Park) have helped foster growth, and offers nonstop flights to an array of destinations in North and Central America, Europe, and Asia.
Pearson is the largest and busiest airport in Canada, handling 44.8 million passengers in 2023. [9] [10] As of 2019, it was the second-busiest international air passenger gateway in North America and the 24th-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic. [9] Toronto Pearson is the primary hub for Air Canada. [11]
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.
One of these has supersonic capabilities, and the other has a 9-meter diameter, making it the largest in Canada. Transport Canada operates two facilities on airport grounds, one of which houses training equipment, including flight simulators, and the other is a hangar for maintenance and storage of government-owned aircraft.
Investigators are probing the causes of an unusual plane crash at Canada's largest airport on Monday, when a regional jet flipped upside down upon landing during windy weather, sending 21 of the ...
It is Canada's largest major airport by total land area, covering just under 28 km 2 (7,000 acres), [9] [10] the 5th busiest airport by passenger traffic and 9th busiest by aircraft movements. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It served 7,919,690 passengers in 2024. [ 11 ]
Montréal–Trudeau is owned by Transport Canada which has a 60-year lease with Aéroports de Montréal, as per Canada's National Airport Policy of 1994. [2] Trudeau is the busiest airport in the province of Quebec and the third-busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic, with 22.4 million passengers in 2024. [4]
Alternatively, London has the world's busiest city airport system by passenger count. As of 2023, the United States has the most airports in the top 50 list, with 16, including five of the top 10. Four other countries have at least two airports in the top 50: China has 10, while India, Spain, and the United Kingdom each have two. [4]