Canadian aviation facts: Canadian Geographic Magazine September/October 2000

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September/October 2000 issue

FEATURE

Facts of flight

Although there are 726 certified airports in Canada, 94% of all air passengers and cargo are handled at only 26 of them

Canadian airports process nearly 80 million air passengers a year

Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport is Canada’s busiest, handling 23 million passengers a year

There are 5 million aircraft take-offs and landings every year, and nearly 400,000 take place at Pearson

760 million kilograms of cargo are transported to and from Canada by air every year

Canadian planes consume 5.3 billion litres of aircraft fuel a year

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