Table 3
Operating statistics – Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II – First quarter of 2005 and 2006

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Operating statistics – Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II – First quarter of 2005 and 2006
  2005 2006 Change from 2005 to 2006
  thousands percent
All services  
Number of carriers included 1 19 23 21.1
Passengers 11,478 12,391 8.0
Goods carried (kilograms) 121,518 159,871 31.6
Passenger-kilometres 26,492,167 30,761,988 16.1
Passenger tonne-kilometres 2,649,217 3,076,199 16.1
Goods tonne-kilometres 423,679 532,598 25.7
Total tonne-kilometres 3,072,896 3,608,797 17.4
Hours flown 406 450 10.7
Scheduled services  
Passengers 10,114 10,768 6.5
Goods carried (kilograms) 91,970 103,227 12.2
Passenger-kilometres 22,133,734 23,837,181 7.7
Available seat-kilometres 30,523,005 31,058,849 1.8
Passenger load factor (percent) 72.5 76.7 …
Passenger tonne-kilometres 2,213,373 2,383,718 7.7
Goods tonne-kilometres 390,112 467,339 19.8
Total tonne-kilometres 2,603,485 2,851,057 9.5
Available tonne-kilometres 4,368,149 4,320,453 -1.1
Weight load factor (percent) 59.6 66.0 …
Hours flown 360 392 8.9
Charter services  
Passengers 1,364 1,623 19.0
Goods carried (kilograms) 29,547 56,644 91.7
Passenger-kilometres 4,358,433 6,924,807 58.9
Passenger tonne-kilometres 435,843 692,481 58.9
Goods tonne-kilometres 33,567 65,259 94.4
Total tonne-kilometres 469,411 757,740 61.4
Hours flown 46 57 24.6
1.
Figures expressed in full, not in thousands.
Note(s):
Level I air carriers. Level IA. This includes every Canadian air carrier that, in each of the two calendar years immediately preceding the reporting year, transported at least 6 million revenue passengers. Level IB. This includes every Canadian air carrier that, in each of the two calendar years immediately preceding the reporting year, transported at least 1 million but fewer than 6 million revenue passengers, or at least 200 thousand tonnes of revenue goods.
Level II air carriers. This includes every Canadian air carrier that, in each of the two calendar years immediately preceding the reporting year, transported at least 100 thousand but fewer than 1 million revenue passengers, or at least 30 thousand but less than 200 thousand tonnes of revenue goods.