2006 Canadian Airport Numbers

Coldrsx · #1 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 6:59 PM**

Edmonton:

Some highlights:
- December 2006 passenger count is 469,609, which is 18.7% over 2005 and 20.3% over budget
- YTD passenger count is 5,211,911, which is 15.6% over 2005 and 14.1% over budget
- Delta added a third daily flight to Salt Lake City in mid-December
- Air Canada introduced non-stop service to London Heathrow in October
- international passenger growth in December is 65.7% over 2005, 19.5% YTD

total 5,211,911

marts1x · #2 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 7:56 PM**

I think you will find in regards to the international growth that its mainly Canadians leaving and returning. Just an indicator to how much money is in Alberta right now. We are seeing similar growth internationally at YYC.

Bigtime · #3 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 9:27 PM**

I guess YYC hasn't released the passenger numbers yet for November/December. But as far as I can tell our count before that for the year stands at 9,463,473 passengers.

Notable Highlights(that I can think of) for 2006 were:

-Delta mainline returns with summer runs to Atlanta
-Frontier commenced YYC-DEN
-British Airways commenced YYC-LHR in Dec.
-A bunch of other additions by both AC and WJ
-AC started direct to New York (JFK)
-The ANA summer charters with the 747's

Now on my wishlist for 2007:

-An actual start date for the parallel 34/16 runway to start construction
-The much rumoured Asian carrier making an announcement
-BA going 7x weekly on the LHR run
-Airforce 1 and all the stuff with it if they hold the 3 amigos summit in kananaskis in June

Bad Grizzly · #4 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 9:40 PM**

^Those number are about what was expected. I believe YYC was looking at around 11 million passengers this year.

AC to New York and Delta to Atlanta, and ANA to Asia are some good highlights for sure. Let's hope 2007 is just a good a year.

alps · #5 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 9:48 PM**

I couldn't find the 2006 numbers for Halifax, but the latest ones were 3,229,111 in 2005 (7th in Canada).

Highlights:

-CanJet (headquartered at YHZ) goes under.
-Icelandair announces they'll resume their service to Canada with a Halifax-Keflavík route in 2007.
-United Airlines starts service to Washington-Dulles.
-U.S. Preclearance facility opens.

alps · #6 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 9:50 PM**

Here are the results of the latest Airports Council International's "Airport Service Excellence Awards" (2005), in which Halifax and Ottawa fared well (Canadian airports are underlined). This was released mid 2006:

WHISTLERINMUSKOKA · #7 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 9:53 PM**

2006 Canadian Airport Numbers was the name of this thread but they weren't even posted, how about providing us with a link at least?

Coldrsx · #8 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:04 PM**

^you sir are to post your cities....

Bigtime · #9 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:07 PM**

I'd just like to state that I will not be fully satisfied with this thread until it becomes a complete disaster like the ones on a.net!

YUL will never see AC's 777's because they are a declining market! Go YYC raaaaaaaah!

How's that for a start?

WHISTLERINMUSKOKA · #10 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:14 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

^you sir are to post your cities....

Oh man, so much work! Maybe when i get home

SpongeG · #11 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:31 PM**

was edmonton without direct london flights?

I remember flying edmonton-london direct in the 80's

Coldrsx · #12 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:34 PM**

^yup....lost em but now they back

SteelTown · #13 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:36 PM**

Where does one go to find these airport numbers?

I know for Hamilton International Airport it increased its number of passengers by 20 per cent in 2006.

The number of passengers is suppose to increase another 30 per cent in 2007 over its 2006 numbers. Thanks to flyglobespan now serving direct flights from Hamilton to Belfast, Birmingham, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Shannon starting May 1, 2007.

2006 was a great year for Hamilton Airport

Numbers came from this article http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/scn/n...ws_695100.html

SpongeG · #14 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:37 PM**

ah

we used to use the edmonton airport a lot in the 80's

Pegger5 · #15 Posted: **Jan 9, 2007, 10:42 PM**

Edmonton and Calgary have to fly everywhere because you are too far North and remote to drive anywhere.. How far a drive to a large American City from Edmonton? 14 hours? 6 hours to the US boarder?

See link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_busiest_airport

They are all increasing rapidly.

Winnipeg is building a brand new airport as well...

Daver · #16 Posted: **Jan 10, 2007, 2:25 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pegger5

Edmonton and Calgary have to fly everywhere because you are too far North and remote to drive anywhere.. How far a drive to a large American City from Edmonton? 14 hours? 6 hours to the US boarder?

See link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_busiest_airport

They are all increasing rapidly.

Winnipeg is building a brand new airport as well...

Wow, I can't believe the Calgary/Springbank airport has more aircraft movements than the Edmonton International.

vid · #17 Posted: **Jan 10, 2007, 3:11 AM**

I don't have 2006 numbers, but Thunder Bay International (CYQT) had over 600,000 passengers in 2004 and over 91,000 movements in 2005. I don't know numbers for the aerodrome (CKE6), but I've never seen it used anyway...

Compared that to London International, which also had 600,000 passengers on only 400 more aircraft movements than us.

m0nkyman · #18 Posted: **Jan 10, 2007, 3:22 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daver

Wow, I can't believe the Calgary/Springbank airport has more aircraft movements than the Edmonton International.

Victoria and Springbank rate as high as they do because of the stupidly high number of Cessnas and Piper Cubs flown out of their Flying Clubs.

WHY-T · #19 Posted: **Jan 10, 2007, 3:30 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I'd just like to state that I will not be fully satisfied with this thread until it becomes a complete disaster like the ones on a.net!

YUL will never see AC's 777's because they are a declining market! Go YYC raaaaaaaah!

How's that for a start?

LOL! I was reading that thread as well. It got really frustrating reading all the nonsense trash talk against one city and another (Montreal in particular).

Talk about Canadian cities rivalries!

Bigtime · #20 Posted: **Jan 10, 2007, 3:39 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daver

Wow, I can't believe the Calgary/Springbank airport has more aircraft movements than the Edmonton International.

You're lucky that you didn't post this over at a.net, they'd eat you for lunch with a comment like that.

You do realize that there is a huge amount of flight schools doing training out of Springbank right? Also the majority of the GA fleet around Calgary is housed at YBW as well. Every takeoff and landing counts as a movement, so just picture how much is happening on a good flying day for training. Aircraft in the circuit doing multiple touch and goes, a/c departing for the practice area and returning, private a/c departing and arriving. Factor in more traffic with the Canada customs being there as well now and it makes perfect sense. Just no real 'heavy metal' around!