2006 Canadian Airport Numbers

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton:

Some highlights:
- December 2006 passenger count is 469,609, which is 18.7% over 2005 and 20.3% over budget
- YTD passenger count is 5,211,911, which is 15.6% over 2005 and 14.1% over budget
- Delta added a third daily flight to Salt Lake City in mid-December
- Air Canada introduced non-stop service to London Heathrow in October
- international passenger growth in December is 65.7% over 2005, 19.5% YTD

total 5,211,911

[marts1x]

I think you will find in regards to the international growth that its mainly Canadians leaving and returning. Just an indicator to how much money is in Alberta right now. We are seeing similar growth internationally at YYC.

[Bigtime]

I guess YYC hasn't released the passenger numbers yet for November/December. But as far as I can tell our count before that for the year stands at 9,463,473 passengers.

Notable Highlights(that I can think of) for 2006 were:

-Delta mainline returns with summer runs to Atlanta
-Frontier commenced YYC-DEN
-British Airways commenced YYC-LHR in Dec.
-A bunch of other additions by both AC and WJ
-AC started direct to New York (JFK)
-The ANA summer charters with the 747's

Now on my wishlist for 2007:

-An actual start date for the parallel 34/16 runway to start construction
-The much rumoured Asian carrier making an announcement
-BA going 7x weekly on the LHR run
-Airforce 1 and all the stuff with it if they hold the 3 amigos summit in kananaskis in June

[Bad Grizzly]

^Those number are about what was expected. I believe YYC was looking at around 11 million passengers this year.

AC to New York and Delta to Atlanta, and ANA to Asia are some good highlights for sure. Let's hope 2007 is just a good a year.

[alps]

I couldn't find the 2006 numbers for Halifax, but the latest ones were 3,229,111 in 2005 (7th in Canada).

Highlights:

-CanJet (headquartered at YHZ) goes under.
-Icelandair announces they'll resume their service to Canada with a Halifax-Keflavík route in 2007.
-United Airlines starts service to Washington-Dulles.
-U.S. Preclearance facility opens.

[alps]

Here are the results of the latest Airports Council International's "Airport Service Excellence Awards" (2005), in which Halifax and Ottawa fared well (Canadian airports are underlined). This was released mid 2006:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l217/halps00/airportawards.jpg

[WHISTLERINMUSKOKA]

2006 Canadian Airport Numbers was the name of this thread but they weren't even posted, how about providing us with a link at least?:shrug:

[Coldrsx]

^you sir are to post your cities....

[Bigtime]

I'd just like to state that I will not be fully satisfied with this thread until it becomes a complete disaster like the ones on a.net!

YUL will never see AC's 777's because they are a declining market! Go YYC raaaaaaaah!

How's that for a start? ;)

[WHISTLERINMUSKOKA]

^you sir are to post your cities....


Oh man, so much work! Maybe when i get home :)

[SpongeG]

was edmonton without direct london flights?

I remember flying edmonton-london direct in the 80's

[Coldrsx]

^yup....lost em but now they back

[SteelTown]

Where does one go to find these airport numbers?

I know for Hamilton International Airport it increased its number of passengers by 20 per cent in 2006.

The number of passengers is suppose to increase another 30 per cent in 2007 over its 2006 numbers. Thanks to flyglobespan now serving direct flights from Hamilton to Belfast, Birmingham, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Shannon starting May 1, 2007.

2006 was a great year for Hamilton Airport

Numbers came from this article http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/scn/news/news_695100.html

[SpongeG]

ah

we used to use the edmonton airport a lot in the 80's

[Pegger5]

Edmonton and Calgary have to fly everywhere because you are too far North and remote to drive anywhere.. How far a drive to a large American City from Edmonton? 14 hours? 6 hours to the US boarder?

See link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_busiest_airport

They are all increasing rapidly.

Winnipeg is building a brand new airport as well...

[Daver]

Edmonton and Calgary have to fly everywhere because you are too far North and remote to drive anywhere.. How far a drive to a large American City from Edmonton? 14 hours? 6 hours to the US boarder?

See link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_busiest_airport

They are all increasing rapidly.

Winnipeg is building a brand new airport as well...

Wow, I can't believe the Calgary/Springbank airport has more aircraft movements than the Edmonton International.

[vid]

I don't have 2006 numbers, but Thunder Bay International (CYQT) had over 600,000 passengers in 2004 and over 91,000 movements in 2005. I don't know numbers for the aerodrome (CKE6), but I've never seen it used anyway...

Compared that to London International, which also had 600,000 passengers on only 400 more aircraft movements than us.

[m0nkyman]

Wow, I can't believe the Calgary/Springbank airport has more aircraft movements than the Edmonton International.
Victoria and Springbank rate as high as they do because of the stupidly high number of Cessnas and Piper Cubs flown out of their Flying Clubs.

[WHY-T]

I'd just like to state that I will not be fully satisfied with this thread until it becomes a complete disaster like the ones on a.net!

YUL will never see AC's 777's because they are a declining market! Go YYC raaaaaaaah!

How's that for a start? ;)
LOL! I was reading that thread as well. It got really frustrating reading all the nonsense trash talk against one city and another (Montreal in particular). :rolleyes:

Talk about Canadian cities rivalries!:hell:

[Bigtime]

Wow, I can't believe the Calgary/Springbank airport has more aircraft movements than the Edmonton International.

You're lucky that you didn't post this over at a.net, they'd eat you for lunch with a comment like that.

You do realize that there is a huge amount of flight schools doing training out of Springbank right? Also the majority of the GA fleet around Calgary is housed at YBW as well. Every takeoff and landing counts as a movement, so just picture how much is happening on a good flying day for training. Aircraft in the circuit doing multiple touch and goes, a/c departing for the practice area and returning, private a/c departing and arriving. Factor in more traffic with the Canada customs being there as well now and it makes perfect sense. Just no real 'heavy metal' around!

[LordMandeep]

YYZ topped 31 million this year, i read in a article.

-it open a whole near massive pier and the airport now can handel 38 million people
-The old bunker Terminal 2 will be torn down this year and next (Thank god)
-its also the 22nd most busiest airport for International Traffic and 29th most busiest airport in the world

Airports are growing really fast across the world it seems.

[WHY-T]

For Montreal (YUL): (Source: www.admtl.com)

- Passenger numbers were up 4% over the first 3 quarters of 2006 from the same period in 2005, reaching a total of 8.7 million passengers. Aircraft movements at Trudeau Airport also went up by 2.2% for the same period.
- It received its 11-millionth passenger on Dec. 15 and the total for 2006 is expected to reach 11.3 million.

[WHY-T]

Some more info from the airport website:

-Runways and taxiways works are complete, upgraded for the A380.
- Foundation works for the US departure/pre-clearance hall expansion and adjoining airport hotel has begun.
- Renovations of the domestic areas are underway.
- The old cargo facilities and hangar near the terminal are planned for demolition to make way for future extension of the international jetty (concourse).

[204]

Canada's 10 busiest airports by passenger traffic (2005)

1 Toronto Pearson International Airport Toronto, Ontario CYYZ 29,914,750

2 Vancouver International Airport Vancouver, British Columbia CYVR 16,418,883

3 Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Montreal, Quebec CYUL 10,892,778

4 Calgary International Airport Calgary, Alberta CYYC 10,148,718

5 Edmonton International Airport Edmonton, Alberta CYEG 4,511,600

6 Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Ottawa, Ontario CYOW 3,720,000

7 Halifax International Airport Halifax, Nova Scotia CYHZ 3,229,111

8 Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport Winnipeg, Manitoba CYWG 3,227,447

9 Victoria International Airport Victoria, British Columbia CYYJ 1,318,395

10 Kelowna International Airport Kelowna, British Columbia CYLW 1,078,800

[Coldrsx]

^Edmonton busier than Ottawa's...but i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?

[Pavlov]

/\ Oh it is, just not as much of a hicktown backward shit hole as Ottawa is.

[Greco Roman]

C'mon now guys, no city bashing. There is enough of that garbage on this website.

[chris]

Edmonton:

Some highlights:
- December 2006 passenger count is 469,609, which is 18.7% over 2005 and 20.3% over budget
- YTD passenger count is 5,211,911, which is 15.6% over 2005 and 14.1% over budget
- Delta added a third daily flight to Salt Lake City in mid-December
- Air Canada introduced non-stop service to London Heathrow in October
- international passenger growth in December is 65.7% over 2005, 19.5% YTD

total 5,211,911

Edmonton, that is amazing.

YEG, YYC and YLW are among the fastest growing airports on the Continent. Good job guys!

[vid]

i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?

You're thinking of Sudbury. :)

[marts1x]

^Edmonton busier than Ottawa's...but i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?

haha u Edmonton guys always fighting for respect...:tup:

[BlackRedGold]

^Edmonton busier than Ottawa's...but i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?

It is. But only because the dumbest of the dumb from Winnipeg move there.

[ReginaGuy]

Regina Intl had 826,506 passengers and was the fastest growing airport in Canada for 2005

The airport was recently rennovated and its capacity was increased to handle 3 million passengers/year. Look at that jump!

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4754/untitledma7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[circle33]

Saskatoon had 710K at the end of the third quarter, up 6% from 2005. Not quite enough steam to make a million for '06 I don't think, but maybe this year.

[yeeg]

Regina Intl had 826,506 passengers and was the fastest growing airport in Canada for 2005

The airport was recently rennovated and its capacity was increased to handle 3 million passengers/year. Look at that jump!

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4754/untitledma7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
the chart looks pretty flat from 2005-2006 if you ask me...Whats projected in the future and what actually happens is a different story...Plus its easier for smaller airports to have a bigger percentage jump YOY...If you had one passenger in 2005 and two passengers in 2006, that would represent a 100% increase YOY...I am cheering for Regina though, 25 years in that place will make me do that...

826,000 in 2006 and projected just under 850,000 represents less than 3% increase YOY...Not sure what happened in 2005, maybe people kept moving to Calgary and flew there a few times to check things out...

[Greco Roman]

It is. But only because the dumbest of the dumb from Winnipeg move there.


Thanks. You just keep helping me prove my point how ignorant and arrogant you are. By all means, keep digging that hole.

[BlackRedGold]

Thanks. You just keep helping me prove my point how ignorant and arrogant you are. By all means, keep digging that hole.

Do you have some sort of obsession with me? I mean why do you keep replying to everyone of my posts and referencing me in unrelated topics?

Are you so immature and insecure that you can't let go of me stating that Winnipeg isn't a good spot for an NHL team?

[Greco Roman]

Do you have some sort of obsession with me? I mean why do you keep replying to everyone of my posts and referencing me in unrelated topics?

Are you so immature and insecure that you can't let go of me stating that Winnipeg isn't a good spot for an NHL team?

It's just that your comments are so enlightening and insightful :rolleyes: that I can't help myself. Anyways, I really do have better things to do, and this thread shouldn't get polluted like the hockey one. So you can keep yapping if you choose, but I am done with you.

[MolsonExport]

Here are the results of the latest Airports Council International's "Airport Service Excellence Awards" (2005), in which Halifax and Ottawa fared well (Canadian airports are underlined). This was released mid 2006:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l217/halps00/airportawards.jpg

Incheon (South Korea, serving the mightly Seoul metro of 25 million) is a great airport. I was there in July 2006.

[MolsonExport]

Canada's 10 busiest airports by passenger traffic (2005)

1 Toronto Pearson International Airport Toronto, Ontario CYYZ 29,914,750

2 Vancouver International Airport Vancouver, British Columbia CYVR 16,418,883

3 Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Montreal, Quebec CYUL 10,892,778

4 Calgary International Airport Calgary, Alberta CYYC 10,148,718

5 Edmonton International Airport Edmonton, Alberta CYEG 4,511,600

6 Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Ottawa, Ontario CYOW 3,720,000

7 Halifax International Airport Halifax, Nova Scotia CYHZ 3,229,111

8 Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport Winnipeg, Manitoba CYWG 3,227,447

9 Victoria International Airport Victoria, British Columbia CYYJ 1,318,395

10 Kelowna International Airport Kelowna, British Columbia CYLW 1,078,800

Interesting how Kelowna ranks so high, despite small size of city. Must be all those Vancouver cottagers.

[Rusty van Reddick]

C'mon now guys, no city bashing. There is enough of that garbage on this website.

Nice sig, hypocrite.

[alps]

Incheon (South Korea, serving the mightly Seoul metro of 25 million) is a great airport. I was there in July 2006.
Yeah, it's also one of the nicest-looking around, I saw a really great aerial photo once that I can't find now, but here are some other pictures...

http://www.jenskleemann.de/wissen/bildung/media/6/65/incheon_international_airport_2.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/b/b0/Incheon_Hall.jpg

Nice floors...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/5/53/Incheon_Terminal.jpg

Last pic looks a bit like Pearson - I visited the new T1 last summer and rode on the new peoplemover - it all looks great! :tup:

[LordMandeep]

everyone is copying the Hk model, which really is not a bad thing.

[zerokarma]

Good to see there is a lot of growth in our Canadian airports.

[big W]

Interesting how Kelowna ranks so high, despite small size of city. Must be all those Vancouver cottagers.

And a tonne of Albertans going there as well.

[Claeren]

I have a lot of friends in the O&G indsutries (and support industries) that fly in and out of Regina and Saskatoon weekly, with their entire crews also doing it as well obviously.

That alone probably accounts for a large percentage of the new trips...


Claeren.

[Taller Better]

Here is a posting by Dr T over in the Toronto forums, which has passed by with almost no comment on that site:


""BEST GLOBAL AIRPORT 2006" IS.....

"In 2006, Toronto Pearson International Airport selected as the "Best Global Airport 2006" by the Institute of Transport Management (ITM).[4] The ITM is an organization formed in the United Kingdom in 1977 with the express aim of providing further education and information to transport managers."

[Taller Better]

^Edmonton busier than Ottawa's...but i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?


That type of negative self flaggelation will get you nowhere. I have heard good reports of late about Edmonton! Buck up!!:tup:

[YOWflier]

^Edmonton busier than Ottawa's...but i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?Whether it's a hicktown backward shit hole I cannot say, but its superior airport pax count can be attributed to a much more favourable geographical positioning.

[malek]

^Edmonton busier than Ottawa's...but i thought Edmonton was a hicktown backward shit hole?

it is! but you need a plane to go there:D

[Western Spaghetti]

For Montreal (YUL): (Source: www.admtl.com)

- Passenger numbers were up 4% over the first 3 quarters of 2006 from the same period in 2005, reaching a total of 8.7 million passengers. Aircraft movements at Trudeau Airport also went up by 2.2% for the same period.
- It received its 11-millionth passenger on Dec. 15 and the total for 2006 is expected to reach 11.3 million.

It will be interesting to see 2006 numbers. YYC is believed to have topped 11 million this year as well. Going by passenger counts throughout the year, it should come to about 11.3 million. December is usally a very busy month, so the numbers could even be higher.