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Monthly civil aviation statistics, February 2017

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Released: 2017-04-25

The six Canadian Level I air carriers flew 6.0 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in February, up 5.6% from February 2016.

Traffic increased 6.6% to 14.9 billion passenger-kilometres, while capacity rose 7.1% to 18.2 billion available seat-kilometres. This resulted in a slightly lower passenger load factor in February 2017 (81.9%) than in February 2016 (82.3%), as capacity growth outpaced traffic growth.

The volume of turbo fuel consumed rose 5.0% to 553.1 million litres, while the number of flying hours increased 1.3% to 165,000.

Total operating revenue edged down 0.6% from the same month a year earlier to $1.5 billion in February.

  Note to readers

The Monthly Civil Aviation Survey covers all Canadian Level I air carriers: Air Canada (including Air Canada rouge), Air Transat, Jazz, Porter, Sunwing and WestJet.

Data in this monthly release are not seasonally adjusted.

Beginning with the reference month January 2017, the Monthly Civil Aviation Survey is produced using Statistics Canada's Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). Detailed information about the IBSP is available from the Behind the data module of our website.

Changes were made to the collection method, questionnaire content, imputation and estimation, therefore, users should exercise caution when comparing actual data to historical data prior to January 2017.

A summary of changes is available under Definitions, data sources and methods: 5026 – Monthly Civil Aviation Survey.

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