Table 9
Operating statistics – Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II –Third quarter of 2005 and 2006

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Operating statistics – Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II –Third quarter of 2005 and 2006
  2005 2006 Change from 2005 to 2006
  thousands percent
All services  
Number of carriers included 1 18 23 27.8
Passengers 12,479 13,588 8.9
Goods carried (kilograms) 157,773 163,128 3.4
Passenger-kilometres 31,920,232 34,343,016 7.6
Passenger tonne-kilometres 3,192,023 3,434,302 7.6
Goods tonne-kilometres 535,458 530,745 -0.9
Total tonne-kilometres 3,727,481 3,965,047 6.4
Hours flown 454 513 12.8
Scheduled services  
Passengers 11,890 12,872 8.3
Goods carried (kilograms) 119,649 102,827 -14.1
Passenger-kilometres 29,891,661 31,374,826 5.0
Available seat-kilometres 37,449,131 39,039,580 4.2
Passenger load factor (percent) 79.8 80.4
Passenger tonne-kilometres 2,989,166 3,137,483 5.0
Goods tonne-kilometres 496,829 464,034 -6.6
Total tonne-kilometres 3,485,995 3,601,516 3.3
Available tonne-kilometres 5,283,422 5,262,453 -0.4
Weight load factor (percent) 66.0 68.4
Hours flown 422 471 11.5
Charter services  
Passengers 589 716 21.7
Goods carried (kilograms) 38,124 60,301 58.2
Passenger-kilometres 2,028,571 2,968,190 46.3
Passenger tonne-kilometres 202,857 296,819 46.3
Goods tonne-kilometres 38,628 66,712 72.7
Total tonne-kilometres 241,486 363,531 50.5
Hours flown 32 42 30.3
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.