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Statistics Canada has released its report on aircraft movements at Canada’s major airports in 2012.
The 5,558,347 takeoffs and landings at 93 Canadian airports with Nav Canada control towers and/or flight service stations in 2012 was down by 13,264, or 0.2 per cent, from the previous year. The fourth consecutive overall decline, it included 4,032,586 “itinerant” movements between airports, which was up 0.4 per cent from 2011; and 1,525,761 local movements, a drop of 1.9 per cent.
Air carriers accounted for 3,171,298 of the itinerant movements, up 0.8 per cent, while other commercial operations increased by 2.1 per cent to 300,078 movements. Other traffic posted decreases, including 432,118 private aircraft takeoffs and landings, down 1.5 per cent. Overall government air traffic also was down: military by 5.5 per cent to 49,392 movements and civil by 4.4 per cent to 79,700.
In the local mix of traffic which remained within the vicinity of the airports from which they took off, civil traffic accounted for 1,518,497 movements in 2012, down 1.8 per cent from the previous year, while military movements fell by 22.2 per cent to 7,264.
Among airports with Nav Canada towers, Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International and Vancouver International continued to top the ranks last year, with 435,592 and 300,063 movements, respectively. Both were up from 2011, Toronto by 1.2 per cent and Vancouver by 0.5 per cent.
The entire Statistics Canada report, titled “Aircraft Movement Statistics: Nav Canada Towers and Flight Service Stations: Annual Report,” is available by clicking here.
