Highlights
Major Canadian airlines carried 3.9 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in December, making it the busiest month of 2021 for air travel. While this was well above the number of passengers carried in December 2020, it was a little over half (54.8%) of the pre-pandemic level reported in the same month in 2019.
Over the entire year, these large airlines carried a total of 22.1 million passengers in 2021. Despite sharp improvements during the second half of the year, the annual total number of passengers was just over one-quarter (25.9%) of those carried in 2019, before the pandemic.
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