Aircraft movement statistics: Major airports – Annual report, 2015
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Released: 2016-06-01
Aircraft take-offs and landings at Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations edged up 0.4% in 2015 from a year earlier.
During the year, 91 airports reported 5.5 million aircraft movements compared with 5.4 million at 92 airports in 2014. This was the first annual increase in aircraft movements in seven years.
Prince Rupert Airport in British Columbia, while still open, lost its status as a flight service station effective July 24, 2014. This airport had accounted for 1,798 movements in 2014.
Toronto / Lester B. Pearson International, Ontario (446,210 movements), and Vancouver International, British Columbia (318,669), continued to be the most active airports in 2015.
The number of itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) edged up to 4.0 million in 2015, offsetting the slight decline in local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport), which totalled 1.5 million.
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Data for 2011 to 2014 have been revised.
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