
The 30 largest airports and airlines in Canada
For the 30 biggest airports in Canada we provided further information. Alone at Lester B. Pearson International Airport operate 46 airlines to and from 147 destinations.The biggest national airlines is Air Canada out of a total of 24. It is leading the list with 194 flight destinations.
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The 30 biggest airports in Canada
IATA | Name | City | Airlines | Destinations |
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YYZ | Lester B. Pearson International Airport | Toronto | 46 | 147 |
YUL | Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport | Montréal | 31 | 93 |
YVR | Vancouver International Airport | Vancouver | 31 | 75 |
YYC | Calgary International Airport | Calgary | 16 | 59 |
YEG | Edmonton International Airport | Edmonton | 16 | 38 |
YHZ | Halifax / Stanfield International Airport | Halifax | 13 | 28 |
YOW | Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport | Ottawa | 13 | 26 |
YQB | Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport | Quebec | 11 | 18 |
YZF | Yellowknife Airport | Yellowknife | 10 | 18 |
YWG | Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport | Winnipeg | 9 | 23 |
YYT | St. John's International Airport | St. John's | 9 | 13 |
YLW | Kelowna International Airport | Kelowna | 8 | 11 |
YZV | Sept-Îles Airport | Sept-Îles | 6 | 11 |
YQM | Greater Moncton International Airport | Moncton | 5 | 7 |
YQT | Thunder Bay Airport | Thunder Bay | 5 | 9 |
YWK | Wabush Airport | Wabush | 5 | 10 |
YYJ | Victoria International Airport | Victoria | 5 | 8 |
YMM | Fort McMurray Airport | Fort McMurray | 4 | 7 |
YQQ | Comox Airport | Comox | 4 | 4 |
YQR | Regina International Airport | Regina | 4 | 9 |
YTS | Timmins/Victor M. Power | Timmins | 4 | 5 |
YXE | Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport | Saskatoon | 4 | 9 |
YXT | Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat | Terrace | 4 | 3 |
YEV | Inuvik Mike Zubko Airport | Inuvik | 4 | 7 |
YKA | Kamloops Airport | Kamloops | 3 | 3 |
YKF | Waterloo Airport | Kitchener | 3 | 2 |
YQG | Windsor Airport | Windsor | 3 | 3 |
YRT | Rankin Inlet Airport | Rankin Inlet | 3 | 11 |
YSB | Sudbury Airport | Sudbury | 3 | 6 |
YUY | Rouyn Noranda Airport | Rouyn-Noranda | 3 | 3 |
Freight volume
In 2020, a total of 2.31 billion ton-kilometers of cargo was moved by air in Canada (= total mass transported in tons multiplied by kilometers traveled). Lester B. Pearson International Airport alone accounted for around 391,492 metric tons.The biggest airlines based in Canada
IATA | Name | Destinations |
---|---|---|
AC | Air Canada | 194 |
WS | Westjet (WestJet) | 82 |
TS | Transat (Air Transat) | 42 |
7F | First Air | 33 |
5T | Empress (Canadian North) | 27 |
YC | Ciel (Ciel Canadien) | 18 |
PD | Porter Air (Porter Airlines) | 17 |
8P | Pasco (Pacific Coastal Airline) | 15 |
JV | Bearskin (Bearskin Lake Air Service) | 14 |
U7 | Northern Dene Airways | 8 |
J3 | Polaris (Northwestern Air) | 8 |
4N | Air North (Air North Charter - Canada) | 7 |
8T | Air Tindi | 6 |
CN | Canational (Canadian National Airways) | 6 |
Z4 | Zoom (Zoom Airlines) | 6 |
BH | Hawkair | 4 |
5G | Skytour (Skyservice Airlines) | 2 |
JB | Helijet | 2 |
SKV | Maple (Sky Regional Airlines) | 1 |
NTM | Northam (North American Airlines) | 1 |
HMR | Hammer (North American Charters) | 1 |
TTZ | Transair | 1 |
ENJ | Enerjet Air (Enerjet) | 1 |
MAL | Morningstar (Morningstar Air Express) | 1 |