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Aircraft Movement Statistics: NAV
CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations
August 2007
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Highlights
- For the fifteenth consecutive month, aircraft take-offs and landings at Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations increased in year-over-year monthly comparisons. These 96 airports reported 586,186 movements in August 2007 compared with 561,106 movements at 97 airports in August 2006, an increase of 4.5% (+25,080 movements).
- Itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) increased by 2.3% (+9,412 movements) in August 2007 compared with the same month a year earlier.
- Local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) increased by 10.8% (+15,668 movements) in August 2007 compared with August 2006.
| NAV CANADA towers | Change from August 2007/ August 2006 | NAV CANADA Flight Service Stations | Change from August 2007/ August 2006 | Total | Change from August 2007/ August 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| Grand total | 465,153 | 5.6 | 121,033 | 0.2 | 586,186 | 4.5 |
| Itinerant movements | ||||||
| Air carriers | 226,767 | 3.4 | 67,615 | -0.7 | 294,382 | 2.4 |
| Other commercial movements | 45,888 | 3.4 | 7,817 | -4.3 | 53,705 | 2.2 |
| Private movements | 43,819 | -1.1 | 17,232 | -0.4 | 61,051 | -0.9 |
| Government civil movements | 5,041 | -1.7 | 2,578 | 2.6 | 7,619 | -0.3 |
| Government military movements | 6,135 | 30.0 | 2,471 | 29.4 | 8,606 | 29.8 |
| Itinerant total | 327,650 | 3.0 | 97,713 | -0.3 | 425,363 | 2.3 |
| Local movements | ||||||
| Civil local movements | 134,906 | 12.7 | 21,904 | -3.2 | 156,810 | 10.1 |
| Military local movements | 2,597 | -0.6 | 1,416 | 763.4 | 4,013 | 44.5 |
| Local total | 137,503 | 12.4 | 23,320 | 2.3 | 160,823 | 10.8 |
