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This is a list of international airports in Canada.. 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 ...
Eastbound Highway 20 leads to the Dorval interchange, the exit which drivers must take for the airport. From the north, Côte-Vertu Boulevard that runs parallel to runways 24L and 24R provides access to the Air Canada Base and hangars, Air Transat hangars, Air Inuit hangars, Bombardier Aerospace assembly facility and the deicing facility.
YVR is the second busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic (24.9 million), [3] behind Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario. As a trans-Pacific hub, [5] the airport has more direct flights to China than any other airport in North America or Europe. [6] It is a hub for Air Canada and WestJet.
Measuring over 346,000 square metres (3,724,000 sq ft), [30] Terminal 1 is the largest airport terminal in Canada and the 12th largest in the world by floor space. Air Canada and all other Star Alliance airlines that serve Pearson Airport are based at Terminal 1 under the "Move under One Roof" policy.
Air Canada is the largest airline and flag carrier of Canada. [1] Founded in 1937 as Trans-Canada Air Lines , it provides scheduled services to 195 destinations on six continents. Its largest hub is Toronto Pearson International Airport , followed by Montréal–Trudeau International Airport and Vancouver International Airport .
A handwritten Air Canada boarding pass from 1979. Paper boarding passes are issued either by agents at a check-in counter, self-service kiosks, or by the airline's web check-in site. BCBP can be printed at the airport by an ATB (Automated Ticket & Boarding Pass) printer or a direct thermal printer, or by a personal inkjet or laser printer.
Located 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) south of downtown Ottawa in the south end of the city, it is Canada's sixth-busiest airport, Ontario's second-busiest airport by airline passenger traffic, with 4,095,914 passengers in 2023. [5] The airport is a home base for Canadian North (formerly First Air) and a hub for Porter Airlines.
From the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, Pacific Western Airlines was the primary passenger air carrier serving the airport with Boeing 737-200 jetliners on nonstop and direct flights between Kelowna and Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and other small cities in British Columbia with the airline also operating Convair 640 and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 ...