List of the busiest airports in Canada
Rank Airport Serves Aircraft movements Annual change
1 Toronto Pearson International Airport Greater Toronto Area 435,592 1.2%
2 Vancouver International Airport Metro Vancouver 300,063 0.5%
3 Calgary International Airport Calgary 240,709 1.5%
4 Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Greater Montreal 231,775 -0.1%
5 Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Ottawa 160,405 -6.6%
6 Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport Greater Montreal 151,816 -8.9%
7 Boundary Bay Airport Greater Vancouver 148,674 1.2%
8 Edmonton International Airport Edmonton Capital Region 142,269 3.8%
9 Buttonville Municipal Airport Markham 138,676 1.5%
10 Victoria International Airport Victoria 137,054 -3.2%
11 Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport Quebec City 133,673 3.7%
12 Calgary/Springbank Airport Calgary 132,677 -0.4%
13 Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport Winnipeg 131,237 -5.1%
14 Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Toronto 114,486 2.8%
15 Abbotsford International Airport Abbotsford 108,429 9.9%
16 Thunder Bay International Airport Thunder Bay 108,130 10.6%
17 Region of Waterloo International Airport Regional Municipality of Waterloo 103,433 6.3%
18 St. Andrews Airport Winnipeg 91,130 -14.2%
19 Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport Saskatoon 91,086 -3.3%
20 Pitt Meadows Airport Pitt Meadows 87,123 -26.7%
2012 -- Canada 's 20 busiest airports by aircraft movements
The following is a list of the busiest airports in Canada. The airports are ranked by passenger traffic and aircraft movements. For each airport, the lists cite the city served by the airport as designated by Transport Canada, not necessarily the municipality where the airport is physically located. Since 2010, Toronto-Pearson and Vancouver International have been the two busiest airports by both passengers served and aircraft movements. Toronto-Pearson's location within the most populous metropolitan region of Canada solidifies its top spot amongst all of Canada's airports, serving more passengers and having more aircraft movements than the top two other airports combined. Given its advantageous position on the west coast of Canada, Vancouver International has long served as Canada's hub for flights bound for Asia and Oceania.