Airports with flight schools and the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020

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Infographic: Airports with flight schools and the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020
Description: Airports with flight schools and the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020

In 2020, Montréal/Trudeau and Calgary International dropped out of the top 5 airports, while three airports with flight school activities (Boundary Bay, Abbotsford and Calgary Springbank) moved into the top 5.


Table 1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 1. The information is grouped by Total aircraft movements (appearing as row headers), 2019 and 2020 (appearing as column headers).
Total aircraft movements 2019 2020
1 Toronto/Pearson 455,107 Boundary Bay 185,431
2 Vancouver International 332,215 Toronto/Pearson 175,060
3 Calgary International 238,846 Vancouver International 156,540
4 Montréal/P. E. Trudeau 237,804 Abbotsford 137,265
5 Boundary Bay 217,156 Calgary/Springbank 128,764

Local movements saw a smaller decrease (-20.4%) thanks to flight school activities.


Table 2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 2 Local movements and Itinerant movements (appearing as column headers).
Local movementsTable 2 Note 1 Itinerant movementsTable 2 Note 2
2019 1,783,301 4,071,985
2020 1,419,889 2,415,560
Change (%) -20.4% -40.7%

Airports the least affected by the pandemic: The Terrace airport in British Columbia was the only airport where the number of movements remained stable in 2020, after it became an Air Canada hub for northwestern Canada. Oshawa (-4.0%) had the lowest decrease thanks to flight school activities.

Source: Statistics Canada, Aircraft Movement Statistics, 2019 and 2020.

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