Aircraft movement statistics: Major airports, November 2016

Released: 2017-01-31

There were 421,781 aircraft take-offs and landings at the 91 Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations in November, compared with 415,405 movements in November 2015.

Both itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) and local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) increased in November on a year-over-year basis. Itinerant movements were up 0.6% to 293,317 while local movements increased 3.8% to 128,464.

Note to readers

Data for November 2015 have been revised.

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Additional analytical information is now available in 'Monthly Aircraft Movements: Major airports - NAV CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations,' as part of the service bulletin Aviation (Catalogue number51-004-X).

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