YUL released Feb 2025 stats. It's not pretty:
Domestic: 408,493
-2.3%
Transborder: 339,559
-8.3%
International: 744,409
-4.8%
Total: 1,492,461
-5.0%
https://admtl.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#H...4O_vu9g5IAq51yei6hru0_2gY6TLQaw6Hx6AH8j4
That's a decrease of ~78,000 passengers compared to Feb 2024, quite a significant drop.
However, due to the leap year last year, Feb 2025 had 1 less day than Feb 2024, so a decent chunk of the decrease is attributed to that, as YUL handles an average of ~54,000 passengers a day during February. Remove that, and the decrease is around 25,000 passengers.
However, even if we remove the leap year discrepancy, it's still quite a significant drop in passengers, due to the simple fact that YUL has been seeing tremendous growth of late, to the tune of around +100,000 to 200,000 passengers per month. Sometimes more.
So the way I see it, it's potentially a drop of a quarter million passengers.
There are several reasons for this:
- Weak Canadian dollar, affecting international travel.
- Trump 2.0 policies.
- Weather: February was pretty brutal for YUL. Two massive back to back snowstorms dumped almost 80 cm of snow over the city and airport in a span of four days, from Feb 13-16. These consecutive storms contributed to Montreal's snowiest February in over 50 years, with total accumulations nearing 100 cm for the month. So the result was plenty of flight cancellations, which surely affected the numbers. Sunwing, in particular, was a total shitshow.
So all of this being said, March will paint a better picture of how the year should look. Sadly, I still foresee a lot of
red, but probably not as bad as February.
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