Highlights
In October, there were 404,663 aircraft movements at Canada's major airports. While this was an increase of 14.5% from October 2020, it was 21.7% lower than in October 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
International movements continued to rise in October, with those to and from the United States reaching 21,441 and other international movements hitting 7,750. At more than one-half (51.2% and 58.5%, respectively) of the levels from October 2019, this is the closest traffic has been to pre-pandemic levels since March 2020.
Movements to and from the United States rose sharply at Abbotsford and Montréal/St-Hubert, two airports where services were available to fly Canadians across the border while their vehicles were shipped by land.
Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International was Canada's busiest airport, followed by Vancouver International and Abbotsford.
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