[Djeffery]

45% increase in passengers last year over 2022, to 332,000, still below half of the peak of 683,000 in 2019. Total aircraft movements also set a new record of 105,000, up 16% over the previous record in 2022, and still well above the pre-covid peak in 2019 of just under 80,000. This is made up on the strength of Western, Fanshawe and ITPS flight schools (the latter are the fighter trainer jets you may see/hear over the city during the day and the pilots are almost exclusively from foreign air forces). Positive news from an economic standpoint for the airport is the various development projects, as mentioned over the last several posts. But, we want to see flights, and who knows where we are going to get those from.