Highlights
In July, Canada's major airports recorded a total of 524,233 aircraft movements. This was an increase of 24.6% from July 2021 and the first time in over two and a half years that movements have exceeded half a million.
Despite this growth, the pace of recovery slowed in July as airports continued to experience congestion. Of the levels from July 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic movements by Level I-III and foreign carriers reached 80.4%, movements to and from the United States increased to reach 75.9% and other international traffic to 82.9%.
Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International remained Canada's busiest airport, and Montréal/Pierre-Elliot-Trudeau International returned to be among the top five busiest airports for the first time since January 2022.
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