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Aircraft Movement Statistics:NAV
CANADA Towers and Flight Service Stations
November 2007
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Highlights
- For the eighteenth 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 95 airports reported 480,451 movements in November 2007 compared with 427,798 movements at 96 airports in November 2006, an increase of 12.3% (+52,653 movements).
- Itinerant movements (flights from one airport to another) increased by 9.3% (+27,974 movements) in November 2007 compared with the same month a year earlier.
- Local movements (flights that remain in the vicinity of the airport) increased by 19.3% (+24,679 movements) in November 2007 compared with November 2006.
| NAV CANADA towers | Change from November 2007/ November 2006 | NAV CANADA Flight Service Stations | Change from November 2007/ November 2006 | Total | Change from November 2007/ November 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| Grand total | 388,680 | 13.1 | 91,771 | 9.2 | 480,451 | 12.3 |
| Itinerant movements | ||||||
| Air carriers | 192,679 | 6.5 | 51,237 | 5.9 | 243,916 | 6.4 |
| Other commercial movements | 34,811 | 28.4 | 5,229 | 36.1 | 40,040 | 29.3 |
| Private movements | 26,313 | 17.6 | 7,804 | 21.4 | 34,117 | 18.4 |
| Government civil movements | 4,284 | -12.2 | 1,767 | 7.2 | 6,051 | -7.3 |
| Government military movements | 3,000 | -10.9 | 908 | -18.6 | 3,908 | -12.8 |
| Itinerant total | 261,087 | 9.4 | 66,945 | 9.0 | 328,032 | 9.3 |
| Local movements | ||||||
| Civil local movements | 126,515 | 22.0 | 24,681 | 10.1 | 151,196 | 19.9 |
| Military local movements | 1,078 | -25.2 | 145 | -9.4 | 1,223 | -23.6 |
| Local total | 127,593 | 21.3 | 24,826 | 9.9 | 152,419 | 19.3 |
