Catalogue no. 51-004-X ISSN 1480-7483 Aviation Monthly Aircraft Movements: Major airports – NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations, January 2017 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. You can also contact us by email at [email protected] telephone, from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the following numbers: • Statistical Information Service 1-800-263-1136 • National telecommunications device for the hearing impaired 1-800-363-7629 • Fax line 1-514-283-9350 Depository Services Program • Inquiries line 1-800-635-7943 • Fax line 1-800-565-7757 Standards of service to the public Standard table symbols Statistics Canada is committed to serving its clients in a prompt, The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada reliable and courteous manner. 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Accurate and timely statistical information could not F too unreliable to be published be produced without their continued co-operation and goodwill. * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Published by authority of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada © Minister of Industry, 2017 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. Aviation Monthly Aircraft Movements: Major airports – NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations, January 2017 Analysis There were 368,640 aircraft take-offs and landings at the 91 Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations compared with 362,599 movements in January 2016. Both itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) and local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) increased in January 2017 on a year-over-year basis. Itinerant movements were up 1.9% to 272,997 while local movements increased 1.0% to 95,643. Overall, air traffic rose 1.7% in January 2017 despite more airports reporting fewer movements as compared to the same month the previous year. Year-over-year variations of more than 1,000 movements were reported at 16 airports. Of these, 11 airports registered growth ranging from 3,838 movements at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia to 1,018 at Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador. The reductions in aircraft movements at the remaining 5 airports ranged from 2,694 movements at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to 1,254 at Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International, Ontario. Itinerant traffic was up 1.9% (+5,100 movements) as 43 airports reported more movements in January 2017. With the exception of an increase of 1,766 movements at Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International, Ontario, the largest gains were observed in British Columbia with increases at Vancouver International, (+1,878 movements), Pitt Meadows, (+1,380), Victoria International (+1,199) and Boundary Bay (+1,172). The largest reductions were recorded at Toronto/Buttonville Municipal, Ontario (-935) and Edmonton International, Alberta (-833). In January 2017, local movements rose 1.0% (+941 movements) as 42 airports reported higher levels of activity from the same month a year earlier. Year-over-year variations ranged from an increase of 2,458 movements at Pitt Meadows to a drop of 2,320 movements at Sault Ste. Marie. Itinerant movements: domestic, transborder and international Domestic itinerant movements (within Canada) rose to 219,901 in January 2017, up 2.1% from the same month the previous year. The airports leading the gains in air traffic were Pitt Meadows (+1,371 movements), Vancouver International (+1,199) and Boundary Bay (+1,156). These increases were sufficient to offset the reductions at several airports including Toronto/Buttonville Municipal (-945) and Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario (-663). During the month, 73 airports reported 36,926 transborder (between Canada and the United States) itinerant movements, virtually unchanged from the level reported in January 2016. Gains in aircraft movements were recorded at 41 airports, including Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International (+603 movements) and Vancouver International (+288). The growth was almost completely offset by reductions in traffic at the remaining airports with the largest declines at Edmonton International (-220), Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International, Quebec (-185), Regina International, Saskatchewan (-125) and Calgary International, Alberta (-104). In January 2017, 39 airports reported a total of 16,170 other international itinerant movements, up 3.8% from the same period the previous year. Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International was the busiest airport with 7,112 movements, an increase of 7.0%, followed by Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (3,130 movements) and Vancouver International (2,307). Together, these three airports accounted for 78% of all other international itinerant movements during the month. Factors which may have influenced the data Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 51-004-X 3 On January 19th , 2017, WestJet inaugurated service from Calgary International Airport, Alberta to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Arizona. Inaugural service from Edmonton International Airport, Alberta began January 21st . On January 17th , 2017, WestJet launched its non-stop service from Winnipeg/James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, Manitoba to Hamilton Airport, Ontario. The airline also relaunched non-stop service to Edmonton International and Halifax/Robert L. Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia from Hamilton Airport on January 16th . Starting January 9th , 2017, Delta Air Lines resumed daily, year-round services between New York John F. Kennedy Airport, New York and Halifax/Robert L. Stanfield International Airport. On January 8th , 2017, American Airlines ended its service from Halifax/Robert L. Stanfield International Airport to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 26th , 2016, several flights out of Thunder Bay Airport, Ontario were cancelled due to a winter storm. On December 20th , 2016, Air Canada began a new year-round service between Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Ontario and Port of Spain, Trinidad. On December 17th , 2016, Air Canada inaugurated a new non-stop service between Montréal/Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport, Québec and Puerto Rico. The weekly flights will operate as a winter seasonal service. On December 9th , 2016, Porter Airlines began winter service between Toronto/Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Ontario and Mont Tremblant, Quebec. Flights will be available until April 3rd , 2017, with service up to six times weekly during the peak schedule. In December 2016, Canadian North cancelled its code-sharing flights from Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, Ontario to Iqaluit, Nunavut. This route was serviced by First Air. On November 18th , 2016, Hawkair Aviation Services filed for bankruptcy, suspending all operations. Starting November 7th , 2016, Perimeter Aviation added flights in Ontario from Sioux Lookout to Bearskin Lake First Nation and Thunder Bay to Bearskin Lake First Nation. On November 6th , 2016, Sunwing Vacations introduced a new weekly service from Kelowna, British Columbia to Cancun, Mexico. This service will run until April 9th , 2017. On October 31st , 2016, Toronto Airways Inc. and the Canadian Flight Academy announced their move of operations from Toronto/Buttonville Municipal Airport, Ontario to Oshawa Airport, Ontario. In order to accommodate the move Toronto Airways at Toronto/Buttonville Municipal will be closed effective November 23, 2016. The Canadian Flight Academy will be closed effective November 30, 2016. On October 31st , 2016, Bearskin Airlines announced it has partnered with Winnipeg-based Perimeter Aviation to re-establish service between Thunder Bay and several First Nations communities north of Sioux Lookout. On October 29th , 2016, WestJet launched its first flight from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport to Belize City, Belize. The new non-stop seasonal service will operate two times a week. On October 24th , 2016, Perimeter Aviation service to Sioux Lookout was expanded to include the Ontario First Nation communities of Deer Lake, Sachigo Lake, Weagamow (Round Lake) and North Spirit Lake with many of these new flights connecting to Bearskin Airlines service to and from Thunder Bay. On October 20th , 2016, Air Canada inaugurated the only non-stop service from Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia to Delhi, India. The airline will