Summary
In Canada, National Airport System (French: Réseau national d’aéroports, NAS) is a group of major airports defined in the National Airports Policy published in 1994. It was intended to include all airports with an annual traffic of 200,000 passengers or more, as well as airports serving the national, provincial and territorial capitals.[1]
All airports in the NAS, with the exception of the three territorial capitals, are owned by Transport Canada and leased to the local authorities operating them.[2] The three territorial airports are owned and, with the exception of Iqaluit Airport, are operated by their respective territorial governments.[3] Iqaluit is operated by Nunavut Airport Services, a subsidiary of Winnipeg Airport Services Corporation, which in turn is a subsidiary of Winnipeg Airports Authority.[4]
As of 1994, the 26 NAS airports served 94% of all scheduled passenger and cargo traffic in Canada.[1]
Due to very close proximity to Canada's east coast, the airports on the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (an overseas collectivity of France) cooperate with Canada on air travel via several major Canadian airports.[5]
NAS airports edit
The following list contains the 26 NAS airports effective 17 April 2010, along with their IATA codes and passenger numbers for 2014:[2][6]
- Alberta
- Calgary International Airport, YYC, 14,666,729
- Edmonton International Airport, YEG, 8,240,161
- British Columbia
- Kelowna International Airport, YLW, 1,607,991
- Prince George Airport, YXS, 435,128
- Vancouver International Airport, YVR, 18,944,527
- Victoria International Airport, YYJ, 1,634,887
- Manitoba
- Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, YWG, 3,626,250
- New Brunswick
- Fredericton International Airport, YFC, 248,740 (2007)
- Greater Moncton International Airport, YQM, 649,427
- Saint John Airport, YSJ, 220,007 (2010)
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Gander International Airport, YQX, 115,382
- St. John's International Airport, YYT, 1,329,239
- Northwest Territories
- Yellowknife Airport, YZF, 359,384
- Nova Scotia
- Halifax Stanfield International Airport, YHZ, 3,620,107
- Nunavut
- Iqaluit Airport, YFB, 140,563 (2011)
- Ontario
- London International Airport, YXU, 479,928
- Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport, YOW, 4,472,365
- Thunder Bay International Airport, YQT, 739,837
- Toronto Pearson International Airport, YYZ, 37,523,366
- Prince Edward Island
- Charlottetown Airport, YYG, 317,150
- Quebec
- Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, YUL, 14,174,375
- Montréal Mirabel International Airport, YMX, no commercial passengers
- Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, YQB, 1,449,413
- Saskatchewan
- Regina International Airport, YQR, 1,254,933
- Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport, YXE, 1,497,579
- Yukon
- Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport, YXY, 263,401
References edit
- ^ a b "Criteria for the NAS".
- ^ a b "Airport Divestiture Status Report". Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
- ^ "Winnipeg Airport Services Corporation". Archived from the original on December 11, 2016.
- ^ Toolkit, Web Experience (May 6, 2005). "Decision No. 275-A-2005". otc-cta.gc.ca.
- ^ "Air Carrier Traffic at Canadian Airports: Table 1-1 — Passengers enplaned and deplaned on selected services — Top 50 airports". www150.statcan.gc.ca.
External links edit
- National Airports Policy