National Airports System

Canada's National Airport System NAS was defined in the National Airports Policy published in 1994 It was intended to include all airports with an annual traffic of 200,000 passengers or more, as well as airports serving the national, provincial and territorial capitals

All airports, with the exception of the three territorial capitals, in the NAS are owned by Transport Canada and leased to the local authorities operating them

As of 1994, the 26 NAS airports served 94% of all scheduled passenger and cargo traffic in Canada

Due to very close proximity to the Province of Newfoundland, the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon a Collectivité territoriale de la République française, cooperate with Canada on air travel via several major Canadian airports

NAS airports

The following list contains the 26 NAS airports effective 17 April 2010, along with their IATA codes and passenger numbers for 2014:

British Columbia
- Kelowna International Airport, YLW, 1,607,991
- Prince George Airport, YXS, 435,128
- Vancouver International Airport, YVR, 18,944,527
- Victoria International Airport, YYJ, 1,634,887
Alberta
- Calgary International Airport, YYC, 14,666,729
- Edmonton International Airport, YEG, 8,240,161
Saskatchewan
- Regina International Airport, YQR, 1,254,933
- Saskatoon John G Diefenbaker International Airport, YXE, 1,497,579
Manitoba
- Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, YWG, 3,626,250
Ontario
- London International Airport, YXU, 479,928
- Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport, YOW, 4,472,365
- Thunder Bay International Airport, YQT, 739,837
- Toronto Pearson International Airport, YYZ, 37,523,366
Quebec
- Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, YUL, 14,174,375
- Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, YQB, 1,449,413
New Brunswick
- Fredericton International Airport, YFC, 248,740 2007
- Greater Moncton International Airport, YQM, 649,427
- Saint John Airport, YSJ, 220,007 2010
Nova Scotia
- Halifax Stanfield International Airport, YHZ, 3,620,107
Prince Edward Island
- Charlottetown Airport, YYG, 317,150
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Gander International Airport, YQX, 115,382
- St John's International Airport, YYT, 1,329,239
Nunavut
- Iqaluit Airport, YFB, 140,563 2011
Northwest Territories
- Yellowknife Airport, YZF, 359,384
Yukon
- Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport, YXY, 263,401

References

^ a b Criteria for the NAS
^ a b
^ Decision No 275-A-2005
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External links

National Airports Policy

v e Airports in Canada
By name	A–B C–D E–G H–K L–M N–Q R–S T–Z
By location indicator	CA CB CC CD CE CF CG CH CI CJ CK CL CM CN CO CP CQ CR CS CT CU CV CW CY CZ
By province/territory	AB BC MB NB NL NS NT NU ON PE QC SK YT
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