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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
40-50 Flights a day? No way Jose. perhaps per week.or maybe they are factoring the two-seater landings/takeoffs (e.g., diamond aircraft)
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It looks like just under 30 arrivals/departures in the next 24 hours, and much of that is on a Saturday, so I'd say that on a weekday we're probably looking at 35 or so per day, which equates to about 230 commercial flights a week. Not bad. Not 50, but not bad.
As for throwing the 2/4/6 seaters into the mix, Wikki says that there was 141,000 total aircraft movements in 2009. That's a takeoff or landing every 3.75 minutes 24/7/365. Sure, there aren't any A380's working there, but those are respectable numbers for a city of this size and sandwiched between 3 larger facilities and within an hour of a comparable sized facility.
What's really nice about the place is that it has all of the amenities that pretty much any aircraft in the world needs - including the largest aircraft and payloads in the world. Watching an Antinov take off with a locomotive in the hold is pretty freekin' impressive. It also allows folks to make quick family visits: a friend of mine met a gentleman last summer who arrived at London airport for a day visit to visit family - in his F-18. His departure was... colourful. Couldn't see that at Pearson!