Aircraft movement statistics: Major airports – Annual report, 2014
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Released: 2015-07-14
Aircraft take-offs and landings at Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations were relatively unchanged (-0.3%) in 2014 from a year earlier.
In 2014, 92 airports reported 5.4 million movements compared with 5.5 million at 93 airports in 2013. This was the sixth consecutive annual drop in movements and the lowest level since 1985. Despite the decline in aircraft movements in recent years, passenger movements have increased as carriers have employed aircraft with more seats and achieved higher load factors.
Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International, Ontario (436,640 movements) and Vancouver International, British Columbia (311,747) continued to be the most active airports in 2014.
A slight drop in itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) was offset by a small increase in local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport). Itinerant movements fell 0.9% to 3.9 million while local movements rose 1.2% to 1.5 million.
Edmonton City Centre Airport, Alberta, which closed on November 30, 2013, accounted for 42,469 movements in 2013. Prince Rupert in British Columbia, while still open, lost its status as a flight service station effective July 24, 2014. Up to that date, the airport had reported 1,798 movements in 2014.
Note to readers
Data for 2010 to 2013 have been revised.
The 2014 edition is the last issue of Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report (TP 577) (51-209-X).
Data and information previously included in the publication will be regularly released and made available in The Daily, on CANSIM or in the repository for survey definitions, data sources and methods Aircraft Movement Statistics (survey 2715). Hyperlinks to all this information will be included in The Daily.
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The 2014 issue of Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations (TP 577): Annual Report (51-209-X) is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications. This report is a joint publication of Statistics Canada and Transport Canada.
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