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Annual Aircraft Movements: Major Airports - NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations – 2017 Catalogue no. 51-004-X — Vol 50, no. 08 ISSN 1480-7483 Aviation Annual Aircraft Movements: Major Airports - NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations – 2017 Release date: May 17, 2018 How to obtain more information For information about this product or the wide range of services and data available from Statistics Canada, visit our website, www.statcan.gc.ca. 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The service standards are be produced without their continued co-operation and goodwill. also published on www.statcan.gc.ca under “Contact us” > “Standards of service to the public.” Published by authority of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Industry, 2018 All rights reserved. Use of this publication is governed by the Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement. An HTML version is also available. Cette publication est aussi disponible en français. Annual Aircraft Movements: Major airports – NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations, 2017 Annual Aircraft Movements: Major airports – NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations, 2017 Analysis Aircraft take-offs and landings at the 91 Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations amounted to 5.6 million movements in 2017, an increase of 1.7% when compared to 2016. Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International, Ontario (467,103 movements), Vancouver International, British Columbia (333,861) and Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International, Quebec (235,099) were the most active airports in 2017. For the first time since 1989, aircraft movements at Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International exceeded those at Calgary International Airport, Alberta (233,017). Both itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) and local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) rose in 2017. Itinerant movements were up 2.0% to surpass 4.0 million, while local movements increased slightly (+0.8%) to 1.6 million. In 2017, itinerant movements rose by 79,225 from the previous year, as 56 airports reported growth. The largest increases were observed at Canada’s three busiest airports, with Vancouver International reporting the largest growth (+11,224 movements) followed by Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (+8,991) and Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International (+8,432). The largest decreases in itinerant aircraft movements during the year were recorded at Toronto/Buttonville Municipal, Ontario (-15,912), Montréal/St-Hubert, Quebec (-8,020) and Kitchener/ Waterloo, Ontario (-3,903). Activity at Toronto/Buttonville Municipal has declined in each of the last five years in anticipation of its eventual closure. There were 1.6 million local movements recorded in 2017, representing an increase of 12,865 movements as compared with 2016. Red Deer Regional, Alberta (+16,256 movements), Chicoutimi/St-Honoré, Quebec (+15,344) and Montréal/Mirabel International, Quebec (+12,586) reported the largest gains in the number of local movements in 2017. These gains were partially offset by a reduction in local movements at Toronto/Buttonville Municipal (-25,726). Itinerant movements: domestic, transborder and international There were 3.4 million domestic itinerant movements (within Canada) reported at 91 Canadian airports in 2017, an increase of 2.1% (+68,528 movements) from 2016. The airports leading the gains in traffic were Moncton/ Greater Moncton International, New Brunswick (+8,491 movements), Chicoutimi/St-Honoré (+7,641), Williams Lake, British Columbia (+7,309) and Red Deer Regional (+7,220). The airports showing the largest declines were Toronto/ Buttonville Municipal (-16,013) and Montréal/St-Hubert (-7,722). In August, the province of British Columbia declared 2017 to be the worst wildfire season since record keeping began in 1950. As a result of fire suppression activities in the area, domestic itinerant aircraft movements at the Williams Lake Airport showed a notable increase throughout the summer. Annual domestic itinerant aircraft movements at this location increased 89% to reach 15,557. Ninety-one airports reported 481,618 transborder itinerant movements (between Canada and the United States) in 2017, virtually unchanged from the previous year (-0.02%). Overall, transborder itinerant movements declined in each of the four previous years. On a year-over-year basis, decreases in activity were reported by 50 airports, with the largest reductions at Halifax/Robert L. Stanfield International, Nova Scotia, (-1,261 movements), Edmonton International, Alberta (-874) and Kitchener/Waterloo (-868). Among those airports with increases, the highest were recorded at Vancouver International (+4,761), Calgary International (+585) and Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (+528). This was the fourth consecutive year of growth for Vancouver International, where transborder itinerant movements have increased 21% since 2013. In 2017, sixty-six airports reported 176,266 other international itinerant movements, up 6.5% (+10,778 movements) from 2016. The gain was led by strong growth (+4,510) at Vancouver International. Together, Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International (79,738 movements), Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (35,747) and Vancouver International (29,021) represented 82% of the total other international itinerant movements. Statistics Canada – Catalogue no. 51-004-X 3 Annual Aircraft Movements: Major airports – NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations, 2017 Table 1 Aircraft movements at airports with NAV CANADA towers and flight service stations, by type of operation NAV CANADA NAV CANADA Towers flight service stations Total 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016 number Number of airports in survey 41 41 50 50 91 91 Itinerant movements Air carrier 2,622,470 2,549,789 587,065 567,124 3,209,535 3,116,913 Other commercial 259,453 265,919 45,661 40,763 305,114 306,682 Private 273,710 285,569 110,403 113,874 384,113 399,443 Government Civil 41,613 41,060 20,333 19,088 61,946 60,148 Military 38,897 38,394 10,805 9,605 49,702 47,999 Total itinerant movements 3,236,143 3,180,731 774,267 750,454 4,010,410 3,931,185 Local movements Civil 1,233,993 1,256,779 310,940 274,526 1,544,933 1,531,305 Military 4,732 5,006 1,679 2,168 6,411 7,174 Total local movements 1,238,725 1,261,785 312,619 276,694 1,551,344 1,538,479 Grand Total 4,474,868 4,442,516 1,086,886 1,027,148 5,561,754 5,469,664 Source: CANSIM Tables 401-0023, 401-0024, 401-0025, 401-0030, 401-0031 and 401-0032 Table 2 Distribution of itinerant aircraft movements at airports with NAV CANADA towers and flight service stations, by sector (domestic, transborder and other international), by type of operation NAV CANADA flight service NAV CANADA Towers stations Total 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016 Movements number Domestic Air carrier 2,027,910 1,966,820 579,669 559,708 2,607,579 2,526,528 Other commercial 257,292 263,564 45,540 40,553 302,832 304,117 Private 230,907 243,071 103,693 106,994 334,600 350,065 Government Civil 41,372 40,846 20,316 19,076 61,688 59,922 Military 35,242 33,959 10,585 9,407 45,827 43,366 Total, domestic 2,592,723 2,548,260 759,803 735,738 3,352,526 3,283,998 Transborder Air carrier 423,887 423,388 6,918 6,898 430,805 430,286 Other commercial 1,744 1,952 75 124 1,819 2,076 Private 40,204 40,026 6,270 6,445 46,474 46,471 Government Civil 221 194 15 5 236 199 Military 2,098 2,511 186 156 2,284 2,667 Total, transborder 468,154 468,071 13,464 13,628 481,618 481,699 Other International Air carrier 170,673 159,581 478 518 171,151 160,099 Other commercial 417 403 46 86 463 489 Private 2,599 2,472 440 435 3,039 2,907 Government Civil 20 20 2 7 22 27 Military 1,557 1,924 34 42 1,591 1,966 Total, other international 175,266 164,400 1,000 1,088 176,266 165,488 Total Air carrier 2,622,470 2,549,789 587,065 567,124 3,209,535 3,116,913 Other commercial 259,453 265,919 45,661 40,763 305,114 306,682 Private 273,710 285,569 110,403 113,874 384,113 399,443 Government Civil 41,613 41,060 20,333 19,088 61,946 60,148 Military 38,897 38,394 10,805 9,605 49,702 47,999 Total, itinerant 3,236,143 3,180,731 774,267 750,454 4,010,410 3,931,185 Source: CANSIM Tables 401-0029 and 401-0036 4 Statistics Canada – Catalogue no. 51-004-X Annual Aircraft Movements: Major airports – NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations, 2017 Table 3 Distribution of itinerant aircraft movements at airports with NAV CANADA towers and flight service stations, by type of power plant NAV CANADA NAV CANADA Towers flight service stations Total 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016
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