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Abstract

The air transportation infrastructure consists of airports, aerodromes and the civilian Air Navigation System (ANS). There are approximately 1775 aerodromes in Canada. Aerodromes are facilities where aircraft can take-off and land. On the map, they are categorized into three types of aerodromes: land airports and aerodromes (for rotary-wing or fixed-wing aircraft); water bases (for float planes); and heliports (for helicopters). The National Airport System (NAS) is comprised of 26 airports with an annual traffic of 200 000 passengers or more as well as airports serving national, provincial or territorial capitals. These airports serve approximately 93 percent of all passenger traffic and about 98 percent of cargo traffic in Canada and are the points of origin and destination for almost all international air service. These major airports comprise one component of the National Airport Policy (NAP). The NAP also includes regional and local airports, small airports, artic airports and “other” airports. The regional and local airports, which serve scheduled passenger traffic, generally handle fewer than 200 000 passengers each year. Small airports have no regularly-scheduled air service and serve local interests, such as general aviation and recreational flying. Civil arctic airports are owned by provincial or territorial governments. Other airports are all other airports not directly regulated through the NAP.

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