[Haliguy]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I think that we are getting off on a tangent on this thread but yes, the passenger figures that you have are accurate. GMIA has about 520,000 passengers per year (down fron 585,000 in 2006 before CanJet tanked). Halifax Robert Stanfield handles slightly over 5x as many passengers per year.

This still makes GMIA the second busiest passenger airport in the Maritimes and the 520,000 passengers per year is greater than all other airports in New Brunswick combined.

Regarding cargo capacity, the GMIA propagandists claim that we have caught up to Halifax. Wikipedia states that GMIA handled 24,527 metric tonnes of cargo in 2007. This is a huge discrepancy from the figures that you have given. I don't know what would account for this.

Finally, GMIA had 125,414 aircraft movements in 2007, making it the 14th busiest airport in Canada. Pretty respectable for a small city but it should be noted that a lot of this is due to the Moncton Flight College (the largest flight college in Canada).

Now, can we stop comparing airports and start talking about the CFL again?

I wouldn't go by anything Wikipedia says.

Anyway back to the CFL....