Aircraft movement statistics: Major airports, January 2022

March 24, 2022, 8:41 a.m. (EDT)

Highlights

In January, there were 264,879 aircraft movements at Canada's major airports. While this was an increase of 4.6% from January 2021, it was 70.3% of the number recorded during the same month in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Movements to and from the United States and other international locations stood at 49.5% and 61.9% (respectively) of their January 2019 levels, halting nine consecutive months of recovery.

Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International was Canada's busiest airport in January 2022.

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