Civil aviation operating and financial statistics, 2013
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Released: 2015-02-24
Canadian Level I to III air carriers reported 67.3 million enplaned passengers in 2013, up 0.6% from 2012. The domestic sector rose 3.0% to 37.4 million passengers, while the international sector (including between Canada and the United States) decreased 2.1% to 29.9 million passengers. The passenger counts on scheduled flights rose 0.8% to 60.7 million, while the number of passengers flying on chartered flights declined 1.0% to 6.6 million.
Total operating revenues rose 1.7% from a year earlier to $20.6 billion in 2013. Total operating expenses increased 0.6% to $19.3 billion.
In 2013, 93.7 cents of each operating revenue dollar were used to cover operating expenses. Aircraft operations accounted for the largest portion of each dollar, at 49.9 cents, followed by general services and administration (28.3 cents) and maintenance (10.7 cents).
Total employment in the aviation industry grew 0.5% to 54,682, while total wages and salaries increased 2.6% to $3.7 billion compared with 2012. In 2013, wages and salaries accounted for 19.3% of the industry's total operating expenses, up from 18.9% in 2012.
Civil aviation data are now available in the service bulletin Aviation, 2013, Vol. 47, no. 2 (Catalogue number51-004-X), from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.
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