The Daily, Thursday, May 6, 2004. Aircraft Movement Statistics

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Aircraft Movement Statistics

In March, the 42 Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air-traffic control towers reported 360,563 take-offs and landings, a decrease of 1.5% compared with March 2003 (365,905 movements). This decline follows a one month increase in year-over-year comparisons of monthly movements. Twenty-five airports showed year-over-year decreases in aircraft movements for March 2004 compared with March 2003. Eight airports showed decreases greater than 20% this month compared with two airports in February.

Itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) increased by 2.5% (up 6,024 movements) in March 2004 compared with March 2003. This represents the second consecutive month of year-over-year percentage increase. Local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) declined by 9.3% (-11,366 movements) in March 2004 following an increase in February.

The top 10 airports in terms of volumes of itinerant movements in March showed year-over-year increases ranging from 33.1% (2,161 movements) at Victoria Intl to 0.2% (13 movements) at Québec/Jean Lesage Intl.

The top 10 airports in terms of local movements showed year-over-year variations ranging from 53.8% (1,788 movements) at Chicoutimi/St-Honoré to -19.5% (-1,598 movements) at Montréal/St-Hubert. Eight of the top 10 airports recorded increases in local movements compared with nine airports in February 2004.

The March 2004 issue of Aircraft Movement Statistics, Vol. 3, no. 3 (51F0001PIE, TP1496, free) is now available online. From the Our products and services page, under Browse our Internet publications, choose Free, then Transport and warehousing.

Preliminary statistics for the 57 Canadian airports with NAV CANADA flight service stations are also available for March.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2715.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Kathie Davidson (613-951-0141; fax: 613-951-0010; aviationstatistics@statcan.gc.ca), Transportation Division.